20 October 2022, 11:00 am
The IIC Experience: A Festival of the Arts 14 to 20 October 2022
Programme Type
Films and Exhibitions
Venue
C.D. Deshmukh Auditorium, IIC main building

In place of ' Amma Ariyan' , the following film will be screened.

 

Arvind Desai Ki Ajeeb Dastaan (The Strange Fate of Arvind Desai/India)
(118 min; 1978; dvd; Hindi with English subtitles)
Director: Saeed Akhtar Mirza

Recipient of the Critic’s Award for Best Film, Filmfare Awards 1979 

Arvind Desai is the only son of a rich businessman who deals in luxury handicraft products. His feelings for his father are mixed. While he hates his dominating nature, he admires his power and lack of scruples. The chaotic, bustling underbelly of Mumbai comes alive in this compelling drama about the existential crisis of a young privileged man. Through the ambiguous idealism of its confused protagonist Arvind Desai Ki Ajeeb Dastaan reflects on social injustice and class divide in urban India