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Film/Video INSIDE INDIA: BOLLYWOOD AND BEYOND SEPTEMBER 5-26, 2003 EXCEPT WHERE NOTED, TICKETS ARE $7 ($5 WALKER MEMBERS). SCREENINGS TAKE PLACE IN THE WALKER AUDITORIUM.  |
Spectacular color, family intrigue, romance, and an abundance of music and dance numbers--the films of Bollywood (Bombay's Hollywood) offer a mix of lavish production and sweeping epic melodrama. But this isn't the only cinematic style in India. Filmmakers, artists, documentarians, and commercial studios from many parts of the country are bending the genre, reflecting the nation's diversity in film production.
India maintains one of the oldest and most prolific film industries in the world. As in the United States, an influential studio system developed in Delhi and Bombay in the 1930s, and an alternative independent movement, brought into the world's spotlight by the films of Satyajit Ray, followed in the 1970s. But Bombay cinema, like the regional cinemas of Kerala and Tamil Nadu, first and foremost serves the needs of India itself. The country may be a nuclear power with a booming information- technology economy, but at heart it is still an agrarian nation powerfully gripped by religions (Hinduism, Islam, Sikhism, Christianity, Buddhism, Jainism) that shape its culture and moral code. Inside India: Bollywood and Beyond offers a glimpse into the diversity of styles in contemporary Indian filmmaking. All films in the series are regional premieres.
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PROGRAMMING ASSISTANCE PROVIDED BY RADHA VATSAL.