Pandavani Folk Songs from Chhattisgarh

Presented by Sampriya Pooja and her accompanying artists from Chhattisgarh

Sampriya Pooja is a Bismillah Khan Awardee of Sangeet Natak Akademi

A folk theatre form popular in the state of Chhattisgarh, and in the neighbouring states of Madhya Pradesh, Odisha and Andhra Pradesh. The songs and stories of the Pandavas from the Mahabharata 

(Collaboration: NCZCC, Prayagraj, Ministry of Culture, Govt. of India)

PUBLIC SERVICE BROADCASTING DAY 2024
(Jan Prasaran Divas)
 
Public Service Broadcasting Day on 12 November commemorates the day Gandhiji made his first and only live broadcast on All India Radio. On this day in 1947 Gandhiji addressed more than 2 lakh refugees at the Kurukshetra Camp from Broadcasting House, New Delhi. Gandhiji held no public office or position in Government and it was truly a public service broadcast. Since 2000, this day has become an occasion to spread awareness about the concepts and values of Public Service Broadcasting in the country.
 
10:30 to 11:00 at Gandhi - King Memorial Plaza & C. D. Deshmukh Auditorium
Commemoration 
Followed by 

At 11:15 to 12:15 at C.D. Deshmukh Auditorium
Discussion
Usha Mehta's tryst with freedom on radio: during the Quit India Movement Usha Mehta was arrested on 12 November 1942 and the Underground Radio Transmitter confiscated in Bombay. S.N. Sahu, former Press Secretary to President K. R. Nayanayanan, relives the moment. 
 
Discussion on Public Service Broadcasting: Watchdog or Lapdog
Lead Presentation: Suhas Borker, Mediaperson and Trustee, IIC

Media students are encouraged to participate in the programme so that they are exposed to the concepts and values of Public Service Broadcasting.

(Collaboration: Jan Prasar)

Great Cases series discussion no: 6

 The Great Cases of CJI DY Chandrachud – An Appraisal of Judicial Legacy

Panelists: Raju Ramachandran, Senior Advocate, Supreme Court of India; R.C. Chavan, former Judge, Bombay High Court; and Maja Daruwala, Chief Editor, India Justice Report

Chair: Arghya Sengupta, Founder and Research Director, Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy

(Collaboration: Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy)

Hindustani Flute Recital

By Bhaskar Das from Mumbai, disciple of Pt. Gopal Das

At 19:00 
Bharatanatyam Recital

By Swetha Vivek from Bangalore, disciple of Guru Shri Adyar K. Lakshman and Smt Chitra Chandrasekhar Dasarathy

Ekla Chalo (Walk Alone/India)
(90 min; 2020; Marathi and English)
Writer & Director: Nachiket Patwardhan

Gandhiji’s 150th birth anniversary is celebrated through the coming of age of Kalyani Rao, a wannabe NRI who arrives in Pune India, to complete her doctoral thesis on ‘Gandhiji and Contemporary Pune’. Rabindranath Tagore’s famous poem ‘Ekla Chalo’ is seen by many as a tribute to the Mahatma and this song helps awaken Kalyani’s spiritual instinct. 

Ekla Chalo reveals a transition of the Mahatma to Bapu, through fiction as well as the nostalgia of romantic archival clips that can help convey his message of tolerance, peace and compassion to a new generation of Indians.

11:00 am    FILM FESTIVAL: A CARNIVAL OF COMEDY FILMS
 

Some like it Hot (USA)
(121 min; 1959; b/w; English)
Director: Billy Wilder

2:00 pm    Special screening
Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose: The Forgotten Hero (India)
(208 min; 2004; Hindi and English with subtitles)
Director: Shyam Benegal

8:30 pm    Ekla Chalo (Walk Alone/India)
(90 min; 2020; Marathi and English)
Writer & Director: Nachiket Patwardhan

Nachiket Patwardhan will be present for the screening

FILM FESTIVAL: A CARNIVAL OF COMEDY FILMS

10:00 am   
Golmaal (India)
(160 min; 1979; Hindi with English subtitles)
Director: Hrishikesh Mukherjee

1:30 pm

The Great Dictator (USA)
(128 min; 1940; b/w; English)
Writer & Director: Charles Chaplin

4:00 pm
    To be or Not to be (USA)
(99 min; 1942; b/w; English)
Director: Ernst Lubitsch

8.30pm

Intimate Lighting (Intimní osvyetlení/Czechoslovakia)
(72 min; 1965; b/w; Czech with English subtitles)
Director: Ivan Passer
 

FILM FESTIVAL: A CARNIVAL OF COMEDY FILMS
 

Chalti ka Naam Gaadi (India)
(178 mins; 1958; b/w; Hindi with English subtitles)
Director: Satyen Bose

4:45 pm  His Girl Friday (USA)
(92 min; 1940; b/w; English)
Director: Howard Hawks

8.30 PM  Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday (Les vacances the Monsieur Hulot/France)
(83 min; 1953; comedy; b/w; French with English subtitles)
Director: Jacques Tati
 

12:30 pm    FILM FESTIVAL: A CARNIVAL OF COMEDY FILMS
The Cameraman (USA)
(69 min; 1928; b/w; silent with English intercuts)
Directors: Edward Sedgwick and Buster Keaton 

2 pm    Duck Soup (USA)
(68 min; 1933; b/w; English)
Director: Leo McCarey

3:30 pm    Modern Times (USA)
(87 min; 1936; b/w; silent with English intercuts)
Writer & Director: Charles Chaplin

8:30 pm    Ninotchka (USA)
(110 min; 1939; b/w; English)
Director: Ernst Lubitsch
 

FILM FESTIVAL: A CARNIVAL OF COMEDY FILMS

Curator: Shivendra Singh Dungarpur, award-wining filmmaker and Archivist, Director, Film Heritage Foundation

The General (USA)

(78 min; 1926; b/w; silent with English intercuts)
Director: Clyde Bruckman and Buster Keaton