[Urban-Media] Film on Tuesday

[Michael Fischer]

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.
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