[Reader-list] Culture Cafe: Film: The Salt Stories followed a Q&A with Director Lalit Vachani - 8th September Friday! Mumbai / SRFTI APPLICATION FORM FOR SHORT TERM COURSE ON ACTING FOR THE SCREEN

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CULTURE CAFE

CENTRE FOR MEDIA AND CULTURAL STUDIES

TATA INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL SCIENCES, MUMBAI

invites you to

A Film followed by a Q&A with the Director 

The Salt Stories by Lalit Vachani 

Date:        08 September 2011

Time:        6 pm to 8 pm

Location:  Classroom IV, Main Campus, Tata Institute of Social
 Sciences, Mumbai

The Salt Stories

(2008; Colour and B/W; Video; 84 min.)

Director's cut and the longer version of `In Search of Gandhi [1]', THE
 SALT STORIES is a road movie documentary set in modern India that
 follows the trail of Mahatma Gandhi's salt march of 1930.

SYNOPSIS

In 1930, a group of Indians led by a frail, elderly man marched a
 distance of 241 miles. They marched for salt.

Mahatma Gandhi was able to craft an anti-colonial, nationalist movement
 around the most basic issue of livelihood: the right of Indians to make
 and consume their own salt.

77 years later, the Wide Eye Film team followed the trail of the famous
 Dandi salt march, stopping at the same villages and towns, in search of
 Gandhi's legacy.

Set against the backdrop of Gandhi's original journey, this is a
 road-movie about issues of livelihood in modern, globalizing India. It
 is a documentary about 'the salt stories' of our times.

CREDITS

Camera: Mrinal Desai
 Location sound and post-production audio: Anita Kushwaha
 Editing and additional camera: Lalit Vachani
 Additional editing: Menno Boerema
 Researched, produced and directed by Lalit Vachani

A Wide Eye Film, 2008

AWARDS:

Best documentary film, MIAAC, New York city, 2009
 2nd prize, Film South Asia, Kathmandu, 2009

Bio:
 Lalit Vachani is director of the New Delhi based Wide Eye Film. He
 studied at St. Stephen's College, Delhi University and at the Annenberg
 School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. He was
 visiting lecturer at the Mass Communication Research Centre, Delhi 
 (1990-92; 1996-98), at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and at
 Amherst College(2009) and visiting scholar at the Center for Media,
 Culture and History at New York University in 1999.
  
 His previous documentary films have been on the star-system and the
 social worlds within the Bollywood film industry (The Academy, 1995; 
 The
 Starmaker, 1997) and on the indoctrination, ideology and the politics 
 of
 Hindutva propagated by the Hindu fundamentalist organization, the RSS
 (The Boy in the Branch, 1993; The Men in the Tree, 2002). In 2005 he
 directed, `Natak Jari Hai' (The Play Goes On)  about Jana Natya Manch,
 the New Delhi based socialist street theatre group.
  
 In 2007, he directed `In Search of Gandhi' for the WHY DEMOCRACY?
 global TV documentary series, and the film was broadcast over 42
 international TV channels. The Directors cut of this film is `The Salt
 Stories' ( 2008), a road movie documentary that follows the trail of
 Gandhi's salt march in contemporary Gujarat.
  
 Vachani's most recent work `Tales from Napa' , is the story of a
 remarkable village that resisted the forces of Hindu fundamentalism
 during the Gujarat riots of 2002.

Links:
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 [1] http://www.lalitvachani.com/film01.html

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