PHYSICAL PROGRAMME

 Iewduh (Market; Khasi/Garo/Nepali) | (95 min; 2019; Blu ray; with English subtitles)

Director: Pradip Kurbah

Recipient of the Kim Ji Seok Award, Window on Asian Cinema, Busan International Film Festival, Korea 2019

Pradip Kurbah’s film is about making the journey from the margins of human experience to the core where lie strength and hope. Iewduh is set in Shillong, and takes its title from the large market in Meghalaya’s capital. The movie is set entirely within the winding alleyways of Iewduh, also known as Bara Bazar, and explores life’s big and small truths through a handful of working-class characters.
 

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PHYSICAL PROGRAMME

House Owner (Tamil) | (111 min; 2019; Blu ray; with English subtitles)
Director: Lakshmy Ramakrishnan

Set at the backdrop of Chennai Floods (2015), the film narrates the poignant romantic story of an elderly couple during the natural disaster. Vasu’s memory might have faded, but his love for Radha is intact. The story goes back and forth narrating the present and younger romantic days of the couple, with rain and water playing a dominant role in the proceedings.

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PHYSICAL PROGRAMME

 Hellaro (Gujarati) | (121 min; 2019; Blu ray; with English subtitles)

Written & Directed by Abhishek Shah

Recipient of the Golden Lotus Award for Best Feature Film and Winner of the Special Jury Award, National Film Awards 2019; and Best Indian Feature Film, FIPRESCI – India Grand Prix 2020

A visually stunning and conceptually powerful debut by writer-director Abhishek Shah. Set in a remote village in Kutch in 1975, Manjhri, a young girl, is married off to a man from a small village in the Rann of Kutch. She joins a group of women shackled by patriarchal mandates. Their only escape from the suppression is when they go out to fetch water every morning at a distant water body. One day, while on their way to fetch water, they find someone in the middle of the desert and their lives are changed forever.

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Screening of National Award winning feature films in collaboration with Directorate of Film Festivals

  Ek je Chhilo Raja (Bengali) | (147 min; 2018; Blu ray; with English subtitles)

Director: Srijit Mukherji

Recipient of the Best Feature Film in Bengali, National Film Awards 2019; WBFJA Awards for Best Actor, Best Director and Best Screenplay, West Bengal Film Journalists Association 2019

The film is based on the intriguing real-life incident of the raja (king) of Bhawal Estate, a large zamindari in modern-day Bangladesh. The heir to Bikrampur Estate and one of three princes, Mahendra Kumar Choudhari, known for his lavish lifestyle and philandering ways, contracts syphilis and is taken to Darjeeling for treatment by his wife Chandrabati Devi. On the way, Mahendra Kumar passes away under mysterious circumstances and is cremated in Darjeeling, following which his brothers inherit Bikrampur Estate. Twelve years later, a Sanyasi, who has a striking resemblance to the supposed dead prince, makes his way to the estate. People begin to take notice of the Sanyasi and news spread that the estate's lost prince is back. Who is this Sanyasi? Is he really the long-gone prince?

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Chariots of Sanauli – Shedding Light on the Chariot and Cart Controversy
Illustrated lecture by Dr. Sanjay K. Manjul, Joint Director General (Archaeology), Archaeological Survey of India and Director, Institute of Archaeology

Chair: Shri B.M. Pande

The Archaeological Survey of India’s ongoing excavations of the 4,000- year-old burial sites at Baghpat district of Uttar Pradesh has unearthed underground “sacred chambers”, decorated “legged coffins” as well as rice and dal in pots and animal bones buried with the bodies. The excavations have also unearthed three chariots, some coffins, shields, swords and helmets which Dr. Manjul says points towards the existence of a “warrior class in the area around 2,000 BCE”.

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Saving the World from Hitler: India’s Battles in World War II
By R. Prasannan  (Manorama Books, 2021)
 
Discussants: Gen. Ved Prakash Malik (Retd.), PVSM, AVSM, former Chief of the Indian Army; Dr. Robert Lyman, Fellow, Royal Historical Society and an authority on World War II; Sq. Ldr. Rana Chinna (Retd.), writer and Military Historian, Secretary and Editor, USI Centre for Military History and Conflict Research; and Shri R. Prasannan, Senior Coordinating Editor, The Week and author of the book
 
Chair: Shri Suhas Borker, Editor, Citizens First TV (CFTV)

Dance in Corona Times
A discussion with Sharmila Biswas; Leela Venkataraman; Shama Bhate; and Parwati Datta

Moderator: Ashok Vajpeyi

(Collaboration: The Raza Foundation)

The programme can be accessed on:

facebookLive@razafoundation
YouTube@The Raza Foundation
 

The Maltese Falcon (USA) | ( Click here to watch )
(101 min; 1941; b/w; English)
Director: John Houston

With Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Gladys George

Recipient of the NBR Award for Best Acting, National Board of Review, USA 1041; Photoplay Award for Best Performance, Photoplay Award 1942; and Winner of the National Film Registry, National Preservation Board, USA 1989

In this classic film noir, detective Sam Spade (Humphrey Bogart) gets more than he bargained for when he takes a case brought to him by a beautiful but secretive woman (Mary Astor). As soon as Miss Wonderly shows up, trouble follows as Sam's partner is murdered and Sam is accosted by a man (Peter Lorre) demanding he locate a valuable statuette. Sam, entangled in a dangerous web of crime and intrigue, soon realizes he must find the one thing they all seem to want: the bejewelled Maltese falcon. 

The Maltese Falcon is a truly superlative movie, arguably the best detective movie ever made in Hollywood and first film directed by John Huston, it counts among the all-time great debuts. 

A three-part series produced by BBC 4 

In a series about the extraordinary stories behind maps, Professor Jerry Brotton, British historian, Professor of Renaissance Studies, Queen Mary University of London uncovers how maps aren't simply about getting from A to B, but are revealing snapshots of defining moments in history and tools of political power and persuasion.

Maps: Power, Plunder and Possession – Episode 3:

Mapping the World | ( (60 min; 2010; English) | ( Click here to watch )

Director: Annabel Hobley

Professor Jerry Brotton explains how maps encouraged the plunder and conquest of far-off lands as fabled riches drove explorers such as Christopher Columbus and Walter Raleigh to the New World. He examines the founding of America and the myth of Eldorado, before discussing how cartography made international enterprise possible through the Dutch East India Company and similar ventures. Last in the series.