[Sarai Newsletter]PRESENTATION BY ASHISH RAJADHYAKSHA

[The Sarai Programme]

Dear Friends,

Sarai invites you to 

`Shaher Aur Sapna: Bombay Goes to the Movies'

a video presentation and talk

by Ashish Rajadhyaksha, Senior Fellow, Centre for the Study of Culture & 
Society

on Monday 18th March, 3:30 pm

at the Seminar Room, CSDS, 29 Rajpur Road, Delhi - 54.



`Shaher Aur Sapna' is a compilation of excerpts from 44 films from the late 
silent cinema to 2000. It was assembled for the exhibition: `Bombay/Mumbai 
1992-2001', part of `Century City: Art and Culture in the Modern Metropolis' 
(Tate Modern, 2001). 

This compilation is a cinephiliac's investigation into the role that the
moving image plays in defining space and desire as a metropolitan construct.
It explores the role that 'Bombay' as an imagined space has had in
constructing the metropolis, as well as the role that the 'cinema' (in its
broadest sense, which includes television, low-end digital `dumps' and
a host of other resources that might well be viewed as cyber-garbage) has
had in constructing 'desire' for all of us.

Ashish Rajadhyaksha is a Film Historian & Cultural Theorist.

Warm regards,

Ranita 
The Sarai Programme
Centre for the Study of Developing Societies
29 Rajpur Road, Delhi - 110054.
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