Description
In Person: Lalitha Gopalan, author of Cinemas Dark and Slow in Digital India
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Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhotN7VGnBs
The result of seven years of conversations with the pickpockets, beggars, laborers, street singers, and street vendors of Shahjahanabad (also known as Old Delhi), Anamika Haksar’s directorial debut is a blend of fact and fantasy, mixing professional actors with Old Delhi’s real denizens and peppering documentary footage with whimsical animation. Street people reenacting their dreams and a pickpocket hijacking a tour group in order to show them his side of the city are just some of the vignettes in this freewheeling narrative designed to echo the rhythms of the precarious lives it documents. “A thrilling, endlessly mutable tribute to one of the oldest, most vibrant parts of one of the world’s great cities” (Leslie Felperin, Hollywood Reporter). (Dir.; Anamika Haksar, India, 2018, 121 min., DCP, Hindi with English subtitles)
Images courtesy of Gutterati Productions
Cost
Free
