From shekhar at MIT.EDU Sun Oct 15 12:54:42 2006 From: shekhar at MIT.EDU (Shekhar Krishnan) Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2006 12:54:42 -0400 Subject: [Urban-Media] Film on Tuesday Message-ID: <1160931283.11981.38.camel@localhost> Dear All: As I mentioned last week, one of the ideas with which we began the group last year was to watch films which help us think through the social and political spaces of the city, and the moral negotiation of urban space in popular cinema narratives. I had put together a list of Hindi films which explore the figure of the urban migrant, criminal investigator, policeman, gangster and terrorist over the past fifty years in Bombay cinema. See: http://urban.media.mit.edu/wiki/Urban_Criminal_and_Terrorist_in_Hindi_Cinema Mike and Eric and I plan to meet this TUESDAY 17 OCTOBER at 7.00 P.M. to inaugurate this film seminar series, alongside our regular sessions of the reading group. We will screen either CID (dir. Raj Khosla, 1956) or Awaara (dir. Raj Kapoor, 1951). The screening will be held at MIT, or if we cannot get a room and projector at short notice there, we will do it at the group "annexe" at 96 West Cedar Street in Beacon Hill. Please join us for this film seminar and bring your friends! Best, S.K. -- Shekhar Krishnan 400, West 119th Street, Apt.10D New York, NY 10027 U.S.A. http://www.mit.edu/~shekhar http://www.crit.org.in/members/shekhar http://www.goosebumpgraphics.org From tsrinivas at comcast.net Sun Oct 15 13:30:47 2006 From: tsrinivas at comcast.net (Tulasi Srinivas) Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2006 13:30:47 -0400 Subject: [Urban-Media] Film on Tuesday In-Reply-To: <1160931283.11981.38.camel@localhost> Message-ID: <20061015172858.679FA2235E@mit.edu> Hi Shekhar; This sounds like so much fun! I wish I could participate... Best Tulasi -----Original Message----- From: urban-media-bounces at mit.edu [mailto:urban-media-bounces at mit.edu] On Behalf Of Shekhar Krishnan Sent: Sunday, October 15, 2006 12:55 PM To: MIT Urban Media Mailing List Subject: [Urban-Media] Film on Tuesday Dear All: As I mentioned last week, one of the ideas with which we began the group last year was to watch films which help us think through the social and political spaces of the city, and the moral negotiation of urban space in popular cinema narratives. I had put together a list of Hindi films which explore the figure of the urban migrant, criminal investigator, policeman, gangster and terrorist over the past fifty years in Bombay cinema. See: http://urban.media.mit.edu/wiki/Urban_Criminal_and_Terrorist_in_Hindi_Cinema Mike and Eric and I plan to meet this TUESDAY 17 OCTOBER at 7.00 P.M. to inaugurate this film seminar series, alongside our regular sessions of the reading group. We will screen either CID (dir. Raj Khosla, 1956) or Awaara (dir. Raj Kapoor, 1951). The screening will be held at MIT, or if we cannot get a room and projector at short notice there, we will do it at the group "annexe" at 96 West Cedar Street in Beacon Hill. Please join us for this film seminar and bring your friends! Best, S.K. -- Shekhar Krishnan 400, West 119th Street, Apt.10D New York, NY 10027 U.S.A. http://www.mit.edu/~shekhar http://www.crit.org.in/members/shekhar http://www.goosebumpgraphics.org --- MIT Urban Media Mailing List http://urban.media.mit.edu http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/urban-media From beverley at fas.harvard.edu Sun Oct 15 16:30:13 2006 From: beverley at fas.harvard.edu (eric lewis beverley) Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2006 16:30:13 -0400 Subject: [Urban-Media] Film on Tuesday In-Reply-To: <1160931283.11981.38.camel@localhost> References: <1160931283.11981.38.camel@localhost> Message-ID: Friends~ Should we have a reasonably small group, the friendly confines of the Bacon Hill annexe are at our service. Delivery food can also be arranged if we so desire. When you get a chance, please drop a line to the list and let us know if you plan to attend and if you would like to bring any guests along so that we can sort out the venue. Hope to see you on Tuesday evening. Eric On 15 Oct 2006, at 12:54, Shekhar Krishnan wrote: > Dear All: > > As I mentioned last week, one of the ideas with which we began the > group > last year was to watch films which help us think through the social > and > political spaces of the city, and the moral negotiation of urban space > in popular cinema narratives. I had put together a list of Hindi films > which explore the figure of the urban migrant, criminal investigator, > policeman, gangster and terrorist over the past fifty years in Bombay > cinema. See: > > http://urban.media.mit.edu/wiki/ > Urban_Criminal_and_Terrorist_in_Hindi_Cinema > > Mike and Eric and I plan to meet this TUESDAY 17 OCTOBER at 7.00 > P.M. to > inaugurate this film seminar series, alongside our regular sessions of > the reading group. We will screen either CID (dir. Raj Khosla, > 1956) or > Awaara (dir. Raj Kapoor, 1951). The screening will be held at MIT, > or if > we cannot get a room and projector at short notice there, we will > do it > at the group "annexe" at 96 West Cedar Street in Beacon Hill. Please > join us for this film seminar and bring your friends! > > Best, > > > S.K. > -- > > Shekhar Krishnan > 400, West 119th Street, Apt.10D > New York, NY 10027 > U.S.A. > > http://www.mit.edu/~shekhar > http://www.crit.org.in/members/shekhar > http://www.goosebumpgraphics.org > > --- > > MIT Urban Media Mailing List > > http://urban.media.mit.edu > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/urban-media From i.khuri-makdisi at neu.edu Sun Oct 15 17:00:32 2006 From: i.khuri-makdisi at neu.edu (i.khuri-makdisi@neu.edu) Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2006 17:00:32 -0400 Subject: [Urban-Media] Film on Tuesday Message-ID: Hi, would love to, but this Tuesd is hellish... hopefully later in the semester, though! enjoy. best, ilham From mfischer at MIT.EDU Sun Oct 15 21:50:36 2006 From: mfischer at MIT.EDU (Michael Fischer) Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2006 21:50:36 -0400 Subject: [Urban-Media] Film on Tuesday In-Reply-To: <1160931283.11981.38.camel@localhost> References: <1160931283.11981.38.camel@localhost> Message-ID: I'd vote for CID, though of course Awaara is great -- and maybe we should do the trio of Awaara to Zangir. What about also Vidhu Chopra's Parinda, and Mani Ratnam's Nayakan. I know these are a little later than your period, but I have a sense that they would work nicely as a contrast set. Also there's the thriller by Sudhir Misra the name of which I forget now (as well as his Dharavi). >Dear All: > >As I mentioned last week, one of the ideas with which we began the group >last year was to watch films which help us think through the social and >political spaces of the city, and the moral negotiation of urban space >in popular cinema narratives. I had put together a list of Hindi films >which explore the figure of the urban migrant, criminal investigator, >policeman, gangster and terrorist over the past fifty years in Bombay >cinema. See: > >http://urban.media.mit.edu/wiki/Urban_Criminal_and_Terrorist_in_Hindi_Cinema > >Mike and Eric and I plan to meet this TUESDAY 17 OCTOBER at 7.00 P.M. to >inaugurate this film seminar series, alongside our regular sessions of >the reading group. We will screen either CID (dir. Raj Khosla, 1956) or >Awaara (dir. Raj Kapoor, 1951). The screening will be held at MIT, or if >we cannot get a room and projector at short notice there, we will do it >at the group "annexe" at 96 West Cedar Street in Beacon Hill. Please >join us for this film seminar and bring your friends! > >Best, > > >S.K. >-- > >Shekhar Krishnan >400, West 119th Street, Apt.10D >New York, NY 10027 >U.S.A. > >http://www.mit.edu/~shekhar >http://www.crit.org.in/members/shekhar >http://www.goosebumpgraphics.org > >--- > >MIT Urban Media Mailing List > >http://urban.media.mit.edu >http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/urban-media From shekhar at MIT.EDU Sun Oct 15 22:41:52 2006 From: shekhar at MIT.EDU (Shekhar Krishnan) Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2006 22:41:52 -0400 Subject: [Urban-Media] Film on Tuesday In-Reply-To: References: <1160931283.11981.38.camel@localhost> Message-ID: <1160966512.11981.138.camel@localhost> So CID it is then. It is one of my favourites for two, very personal reasons: 1. my maternal grandfather was the chief secretary to the Bombay CID Special Branch between 1955-1959, when the film was made; 2. the name of the main protagonist, played by Dev Anand, is "Inspector Shekhar". I love Dev Anand! We should add Parinda to the list, Nayakan is already there. But I'm partial to doing these semi-chronologically. Best, Shekhar On Sun, 2006-10-15 at 21:50 -0400, Michael Fischer wrote: > I'd vote for CID, though of course Awaara is great -- and maybe we > should do the trio of Awaara to Zangir. What about also Vidhu > Chopra's Parinda, and Mani Ratnam's Nayakan. I know these are a > little later than your period, but I have a sense that they would > work nicely as a contrast set. Also there's the thriller by Sudhir > Misra the name of which I forget now (as well as his Dharavi). > > > >Dear All: > > > >As I mentioned last week, one of the ideas with which we began the group > >last year was to watch films which help us think through the social and > >political spaces of the city, and the moral negotiation of urban space > >in popular cinema narratives. I had put together a list of Hindi films > >which explore the figure of the urban migrant, criminal investigator, > >policeman, gangster and terrorist over the past fifty years in Bombay > >cinema. See: > > > >http://urban.media.mit.edu/wiki/Urban_Criminal_and_Terrorist_in_Hindi_Cinema > > > >Mike and Eric and I plan to meet this TUESDAY 17 OCTOBER at 7.00 P.M. to > >inaugurate this film seminar series, alongside our regular sessions of > >the reading group. We will screen either CID (dir. Raj Khosla, 1956) or > >Awaara (dir. Raj Kapoor, 1951). The screening will be held at MIT, or if > >we cannot get a room and projector at short notice there, we will do it > >at the group "annexe" at 96 West Cedar Street in Beacon Hill. Please > >join us for this film seminar and bring your friends! > > > >Best, > > > > > >S.K. > >-- > > > >Shekhar Krishnan > >400, West 119th Street, Apt.10D > >New York, NY 10027 > >U.S.A. > > > >http://www.mit.edu/~shekhar > >http://www.crit.org.in/members/shekhar > >http://www.goosebumpgraphics.org > > > >--- > > > >MIT Urban Media Mailing List > > > >http://urban.media.mit.edu > >http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/urban-media > > --- > > MIT Urban Media Mailing List > > http://urban.media.mit.edu > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/urban-media From nraman at MIT.EDU Sun Oct 15 23:31:19 2006 From: nraman at MIT.EDU (Nithya Varsha Raman) Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2006 23:31:19 -0400 Subject: [Urban-Media] Film on Tuesday In-Reply-To: <1160966512.11981.138.camel@localhost> References: <1160931283.11981.38.camel@localhost> <1160966512.11981.138.camel@localhost> Message-ID: <20061015233119.fo5ya3sd7zlcs44g@webmail.mit.edu> Are these subtitled? My non-Hindi speaker friend might want to come. Quoting Shekhar Krishnan : > So CID it is then. It is one of my favourites for two, very personal > reasons: 1. my maternal grandfather was the chief secretary to the > Bombay CID Special Branch between 1955-1959, when the film was made; 2. > the name of the main protagonist, played by Dev Anand, is "Inspector > Shekhar". I love Dev Anand! > > We should add Parinda to the list, Nayakan is already there. But I'm > partial to doing these semi-chronologically. > > Best, > > > Shekhar > > On Sun, 2006-10-15 at 21:50 -0400, Michael Fischer wrote: >> I'd vote for CID, though of course Awaara is great -- and maybe we >> should do the trio of Awaara to Zangir. What about also Vidhu >> Chopra's Parinda, and Mani Ratnam's Nayakan. I know these are a >> little later than your period, but I have a sense that they would >> work nicely as a contrast set. Also there's the thriller by Sudhir >> Misra the name of which I forget now (as well as his Dharavi). >> >> >> >Dear All: >> > >> >As I mentioned last week, one of the ideas with which we began the group >> >last year was to watch films which help us think through the social and >> >political spaces of the city, and the moral negotiation of urban space >> >in popular cinema narratives. I had put together a list of Hindi films >> >which explore the figure of the urban migrant, criminal investigator, >> >policeman, gangster and terrorist over the past fifty years in Bombay >> >cinema. See: >> > >> >http://urban.media.mit.edu/wiki/Urban_Criminal_and_Terrorist_in_Hindi_Cinema >> > >> >Mike and Eric and I plan to meet this TUESDAY 17 OCTOBER at 7.00 P.M. to >> >inaugurate this film seminar series, alongside our regular sessions of >> >the reading group. We will screen either CID (dir. Raj Khosla, 1956) or >> >Awaara (dir. Raj Kapoor, 1951). The screening will be held at MIT, or if >> >we cannot get a room and projector at short notice there, we will do it >> >at the group "annexe" at 96 West Cedar Street in Beacon Hill. Please >> >join us for this film seminar and bring your friends! >> > >> >Best, >> > >> > >> >S.K. >> >-- >> > >> >Shekhar Krishnan >> >400, West 119th Street, Apt.10D >> >New York, NY 10027 >> >U.S.A. >> > >> >http://www.mit.edu/~shekhar >> >http://www.crit.org.in/members/shekhar >> >http://www.goosebumpgraphics.org >> > >> >--- >> > >> >MIT Urban Media Mailing List >> > >> >http://urban.media.mit.edu >> >http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/urban-media >> >> --- >> >> MIT Urban Media Mailing List >> >> http://urban.media.mit.edu >> http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/urban-media > > --- > > MIT Urban Media Mailing List > > http://urban.media.mit.edu > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/urban-media >