[Urban-Media] Film on Tuesday

[Nithya Varsha Raman]

Are these subtitled? My non-Hindi speaker friend might want to come.



Quoting Shekhar Krishnan <shekhar at MIT.EDU>:

> 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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>> >
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