PHYSICAL PROGRAMME

(53 min; 2019; dvd; Tamil/English)
Director: Pankaj Rishi Kumar
Producer: Public Service Broadcasting Trust

Multiple award winner and India’s Official Entry to the Oscar Awards, recipient of the Best Long Documentary Award, International Documentary and Short Film Festival, Kerala 2019; Satyajit Ray Golden Award for Best Documentary, and Mrinal Sen Golden Award for Best Direction in Documentary, South Asia Film Festival; Human Rights Prize, Fine Arts Film Festival, USA; among others

Janani's Juliet follows the journey of Pondicherry-based theatre group, Indianostrum, as they navigate through caste and class obstacles, and understand how these impact women’s freedom and love. They adapt Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet to their story and what emerges is a critical reflection and commentary on the contemporary world, where love struggles to survive

Kindly please make a note
-    Physical programmes will be held as per the Covid -19 guidelines with 50% seating capacity in the C.D. Deshmukh Auditorium.
-    Wearing of face masks is mandatory and will be strictly enforced. Entry will not be permitted to anyone not wearing a mask
-    Audiences are requested to arrive at the venues, at least 30 minutes prior to the programmes in order to facilitate the screening process at the Door
-    There will be separate doors earmarked for Entry and Exit

We request audiences to kindly abide by the above regulations

HYBRID PROGRAMME

The Dream of Revolution: A Biography of Jayaprakash Narayan
By Bimal Prasad and Sujata Prasad (Vintage Books, New Delhi: August 2021)

Discussants: Prof. Rajmohan Gandhi, historian, biographer and Research Professor, Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA; Shri Ajit Jha, Research Editor, The Outlook magazine ; Shri Om Thanvi, Hindi writer, editor and critic and Founding Vice-Chancellor, Haridev Joshi University of Journalism and Mass Communication, Jaipur; Shri Raghu Rai, well-known photographer; 
Ms Narayani Basu, historian and foreign policy analyst; and Ms Sujata Prasad, co-author of the book

Moderator: Shri Suhas Borker , Editor, Citizens First TV (CFTV)

(110 min; 1939; b/w; English)
Director: Ernst Lubitsch

With Greta Garbo, Melvyn Douglas, Ina Claire

Recipient of the Audience Award and Golden Train Award for Best Screenplay, Faro Island Film Festival 1939; NBR Award for Top Ten Films and Best Acting, National Board of Review, USA 1939; and Winner of the National Film Registry, National Film Preservation Board, USA 1990. A stern Russian woman sent to Paris on official business finds herself attracted to a man who represents everything she is supposed to detest.The film is known for being one of the first American films which, under the cover of a satirical, light romance, depicted the Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin as being rigid and grey, in this instance comparing it with the free and sunny Parisian society of pre-war years through a delightful affair, full of sparkling wit and wisecracks that blends pratfalls and a sophisticated comedy of manners.

The film can be accessed on either of the two links listed below:

https://archive.org/details/ninotchka-1939-3e-3-msf-6-islk
or
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Px_302VVxKQ

Stealing van Gogh | ( Click here to watch ) | (59 min; 2018; English)

Director: Julian Hendy

Art historian Andrew Graham-Dixon uncovers the truth behind the greatest art heist of the 21st century. In December 2002, two priceless paintings were stolen from the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam in a brutal and audacious robbery.

A brilliant and fascinating look at how stolen art is used as a black-market currency – canvas banknotes, basically – and how it can be used as a crook’s ultimate bargaining chip to reduce a sentence.

(54 min; 2019; English)
Director: Stuart Elliott

Archaeologists investigate the remains of a 4000-year-old pyramid, which contains a sealed buried chamber that has somehow been robbed-without any signs of entry.

Video recording of the conversation organised by The New York Public Library on 3 December 2018

Slovenian philosopher, cultural critic, and Lacanian psychoanalyst Slavoj Žižek in conversation with French high-wire artist Philippe Petit, subject of the award-winning documentary Man on a Wire, and famous the world over for his high-wire walks. The two discuss their life’s work and what inspires them to continue exploring new territory. 

Presented by Prerona Bhuyan from Guwahati, Assam, disciple of Guru Jatin Goswami

An exhibition of photographs by Vijay Jodha

The online exhibition focuses on a contemporary but less noticed facet of public life in Tamil Nadu – art that can be found on the sides of buses crisscrossing the state. The advent of digital printed billboards has spelt the death knell to the careers of Tamil Nadu’s famed hoarding painters. Thankfully their creativity has found a new avenue in the form of murals and public art that has brought life to many old, drab or poorly maintained buildings and in the world of public transport.

About the Artist and Exhibition

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