The Nehru Centre, 8 South Audley Street, London W1Y 5DG
commencing 6.30 prompt
admission is free - first come first served
GIRISH KARNAD
The 1950's saw the emergence of the 'Parallel Cinema' in India, in the works of Bimal Roy, Guru Dutt, Satyajit Ray and the many others that followed in their wake in Hindi and regional studios. This tradition became immensely productive and popular during the next four decades with the films of Shyam Benegal, Basu Chatterjee, Adoor Gopalakrishnan and others.
What were the conditions that made this school of filmmaking possible and what has happened to it today?
Girish Karnad does not claim to be a film scholar but will ruminate over the phenomenon from the point of view of an 'insider'.
Former director of the Nehru Centre (2000-03), Oxford Rhodes Scholar, playwright, actor and filmmaker, Girish Karnad has been Director of the Film and TV Institute of India. He has been conferred the Padma Bhushan and awarded the Bharatiya Jnanpith, India's highest literary Award.
Chair: Clyde Jeavons, film historian, archivist and programmer. Executive member of The Satyajit Ray Foundation and Chair of the Annual Ray Award Jury.
