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

 Songs of Resistance, Songs of Hope

Presented by Sumangala Damodaran, singer and composer who has archived and documented the musical tradition of the Indian People’s Theatre Association (IPTA)

Accompanists: Pritam Ghosal (sarod & composer); Ahsan Ali (sarangi); and Mark Aranha (guitar)

Chief Guest: Dr. Bina Agarwal, Professor of Development Economics and Environment, Global Development Institute, the University of Manchester

Colourful Cosmopolitanism: Art and Music in the History of Indian Anti-Colonial Nationalism 

Keynote Address by Prof. Sugata Bose, Gardiner Professor of Oceanic History and Affairs, Department of History, Harvard University

Chair: Shri Shyam Saran, President, IIC