Speaker : Dr. Darius Cooper, teaches Critical Thinking, Film, and Humanities in San Diego Mesa College in San Diego, USA;  and author of several books including Between Tradition and Modernity:The Cinema of Satyajit Ray (Cambridge University Press,  2000); Guru Dutt and Hollywood Melodrama ( Seagull Books, 2004); Beyond the Chameleon's Skill -  book of poems (Poetrywalla, 2012); The Fuss About Queens and other stories (Om Books, 2014)
 
The talk chronicles how Dr. Cooper became a cinephile or student of cinema aided by cultural establishments in Bombay and the sudden rise and popularity  of the Film Society Movement that took place simultaneously