[Reader-list] [Announcements] [forward] Screening of two IFA-supported films

[Vivek Narayanan]

*KITTE MIL VE MAHI - WHERE THE TWAIN SHALL MEET * A film by Ajay 
Bhardwaj Thursday, 14th April 2004, 6 pm, Edward Said Hall, adjacent to 
the VC's office, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi (please see below for 
details)

*CITY OF PHOTOS*

A film by Nishtha Jain Duration: 60 mins

30th April, 7.00pm, India Habitat Centre, Gulmohar Hall, New Delhi. 
(please see below for details) *About* *CITY OF PHOTOS*

CITY OF PHOTOS is a personal journey into neighborhood photo studios in 
Indian cities, discovering entire imaginary worlds in the smallest of 
spaces. Tiny, shabby studios that appear stuck in a time warp turn out 
to be places that afford fascinating glimpses into individual fantasies 
and popular tastes. Yet beneath the fun and games runs an undercurrent 
of foreboding. Not everyone enjoys being photographed; not every 
backdrop is beautiful. The cities in which these stories unfold 
themselves become backdrops, their gritty urban reality a counterpoint 
to the photo palaces.

CREW:

Commentary: Smriti Nevatia

Cinematography: Deepti Gupta

Editing: Nishtha Jain

Audiography: Goutam Nag, Gissy Michael, Dipankar Chaki

Music: Debojyoti Mishra

“/City of Photos/ captures in a smart way much of the flavour and 
character I know of India and is a modern meditation on image-making, 
family, memory, rituals.”

- Peter Wintonick, Filmmaker

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“/City of Photos/ is a layered and complex journey into the 
neighbourhood studio... accompanied by a lyrical narrative...A play 
between what seem like opposites — order and chaos, past and present, or 
reality and fantasy — runs through the film.” - Bageshree S, /The Hindu/

*About KITTE MIL VE MAHI - WHERE THE TWAIN SHALL MEET *

This film contends the dominant perceptions of the economic and 
spiritual heritage of Punjab. It does so through a people’s narrative on 
the preservation and regeneration of its ‘little’ traditions, which 
often appear seamlessly cultural and political. Travel to the heart of 
Punjab. Enter a world of Sufi shrines worshipped and looked after by 
Dalits. Listen to B.S. Balli Qawwal Paslewale, the first generation 
Dalit Qawwals born out of this tradition. Join a fascinating dialogue 
with Lal Singh Dil—a poet, a Dalit, converted to Islam. Meet the last 
living legend of the Gadar movement, Baba Bhagat Singh Bilga, who 
contests the subversion of a common past, while affirming a new 
consciousness among Dalits, within and beyond Punjab. The interplay 
between the constituents of this mosaic brings to light the triple 
marginalisation of Dalits--- amidst the agricultural boom that is the 
modern Punjab, in the contesting ground of its ‘major’ religions, and in 
the intellectual construction of their 'syncretism' AJAY BHARDWAJ B-3 / 
3259, Vasant Kunj, New Delhi -110070


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