[Urban-Media] Film on Tuesday

[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.
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