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Narratives on Cinema City |
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Various public and personal narratives on the Cinema city
and its citizens will be produced in various forms and
genres. The narratives will create a gallery of portraits
of the individuals residing in the Cinema City and explore
the locations and images of the city that construct the
ingredients of the popular culture; the memories and
landmarks of
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cinema in the city; the expansion of cinema in brand
Bollywood; relationship between cinema and other urban
issues such as public health, public place, public
morality, public aesthetics etc. |
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Collaborator:
PSBT
(Public Service Broadcast Trust) |
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Working Title:
Cinema and the
Public
Director: Avjit
Mukul Kishore
An impressionistic
sketch of 'the public' as created by our cinema and it's
relationship with cinema itself. |
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Working Title:
Bhais, Dadas
and Cinemas
Director: Sankalp
Meshram
The film will set out
to discover various hypotheses based on the city's crime
scene & try to arrive at some form of cinematic
articulation that is expressive of this great
contradiction called Bombay. |
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Working Title:
Do Rafique
Director:
Rafeeq Ellias
Rafeeq meets Rafique
Bagdadi, an extraordinary living archive of the city and
its cinema, and explores the cinema city through him. |
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Working Title:
Cinema of
Romance / Romance of City
Director: Hansa
Thapliyal
A cinema theatre in a
suburb of cinema city, is pulled down. Three women, who
live in that suburb, reflect on their various
relationships with that fantasy of a film in a darkened
theatre. Was it ever theirs’?
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Working Title:
Darkroom
Director: Renu
Savant
The city as a darkroom
creates many chemical reactions through its agitation and
development of emulsions.
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Working Title:
Film Writers’
Association
Director: Rrivu
Laha
A journey of the migrants to the dream city through the
track of filmi aspiration. |
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Working Title:
Satelite Cinema
of Malegaon
Director: Gargey
Trivedi
Malegaon, a small town
only 300 kms away from the giant Bollywood industry;
possesses its own Mughal-e-Azam, Munnabhai, Mithunda… and
thus a Cinema. |
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Working Title:
PRODUCER/DIRECTOR/CAMERAMAN/ACTOR/PAINTER
BABURAO
Director:
Richa Husing
Baburao churns out
psychedelic Bollywood dreams for the neighbourhood boys
from a claustrophobic den in the ghetto of Dharavi. |
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