[Reader-list] Delhi-Mumbai-Dehi: Screening; Saba Dewa

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Film @ Sarai: October – November 2005
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Delhi-Mumbai-Delhi
A film by Saba Dewanm
5:30 P.M., Friday, 27 October 2006
Sarai-CSDS

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.
Saba will be present for a discussion after the screening.

Delhi-Mumbai-Delhi
Duration: 63 Minutes
Year of Production: 2006
Director: Saba Dewan
Producer: Rahul Roy
Camera: Rahul Roy
Sound: Asheesh Pandya & Sunder
Editor: Anupama Chandra

[Saba Dewan did her masters in film and TV production from the Mass
Communication Research Centre, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi in
1987 and since has been making independent documentaries. Her work
has focused on communalism, gender and agricultural labour. Delhi-
Mumbai-Delhi was supported by the Jan Vrijman Fund and she is
currently working on a film on tawaif (courtesan) art and sexuality
under a fellowship from the India Foundation of the Arts.]