[Reader-list] Film Screening - Delhi -Mumbai - Delhi

[Aarti]

*Dear Friends,

***You are cordially invited to the first screening of the documentary 
Delhi -Mumbai - Delhi at the Stein Auditorium, India Habitat Centre , 
Lodhi Road, New Delhi.
Date - Sunday, 26 February 2006
Time - 7.00pm

Delhi –Mumbai –Delhi - synopses - Riya dances in the beer bars of Mumbai 
to make a living. The documentary follows her from her home in Delhi to 
Mumbai where hundreds of working class girls come in search of work and 
a future. Riya's future is unpredictable and the present is marked with 
its own difficulties. The police harass her family in Delhi, there is 
constant pressure from her agent in Mumbai to attract more tips and the 
work itself is demanding. However, there are other girls to have fun 
with, there is money to dress well and then there are men… admirers 
promising the moon. The documentary is an intimate portrait of the 
everyday in the life of the girls, their agents and their neighbourhoods.

Delhi-Mumbai-Delhi, shot in the backdrop of the Maharashtra Governments' 
controversial move to ban girls from dancing in beer bars, interweaves 
stories of gender, labour, sexuality and popular culture within an 
increasingly globalized economy.

*Duration: 63 Minutes*

*Director: Saba Dewan*

*Camera: Rahul Roy
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*Editor: Anupama Chandra*
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*Sound: Asheesh Pandya & Sunder*

*Sound mix: Gissy Micheal*

*Contact: Aakar, A-19, Gulmohar Park, New Delhi 110049*

*Tel: 91-11-26515161/Fax: 26522230/ Email: khel at vsnl.com 
<mailto:khel at vsnl.com>*

* sabadewan at gmail.com <mailto:sabadewan at gmail.com>*

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