[Urban-Media] Film on Tuesday

[Shekhar Krishnan]

We may have to turn on the subtitles for those who don't understand
Hindustani. 


S.K.

On Sun, 2006-10-15 at 23:31 -0400, Nithya Varsha Raman wrote:
> 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.
> >> >--
> >> >
> >> >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
> >
> 
> 
> ---
> 
> MIT Urban Media Mailing List
> 
> http://urban.media.mit.edu
> http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/urban-media