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  • The Wager on Cinema: Screening 12 – Gender, Sexuality, and Desire

    The Sarai Programme invites you to the twelfth screening of the film series titled, The Wager on Cinema: Gender, Sexuality and Desire. We shall be screening three PSBT films: ‘Zara Nazar Utha Ke Dekho’ (directed by Anindya Shankar Das); ‘Ishq, Dosti, and All That’ (directed by Ritambhara Mehta, Rituparna Borah, Bhamati Sivapalan and Srishti Lakhera); and ‘Please Mind the Gap’…

  • The Wager on Cinema: Screening 11 – If She Built A Country/ Agar Wo Desh Banati

    The Sarai Programme invites you to the eleventh screening of the film series titled The Wager on Cinema: Maheen Mirza’s ‘If She Built A Country’/ ‘Agar Wo Desh Banati’.  The film’s editor Puloma Pal will be available for the discussion after the screening. The respondents for this film are Fathima Nizaruddin and Sourav Mahanta. Date:…

  • The Wager on Cinema: Screening 10 – The Battle for Banaras

    The Sarai Programme invites you to the tenth screening of the film series titled, The Wager on Cinema : Kamal Swaroop’s The Battle for Banaras The respondent for this film is Ashish Rajadhyaksha. Date: 11 April, 2019 (Thursday) Time: 4:30 PM (Tea will be served at 4:00 PM) Venue: The Sarai Programme, Centre for the Study…

  • The Wager on Cinema: Screening 9 – Machines

    The Sarai Programme invites you to the ninth screening of the film series titled, The Wager on Cinema : Rahul Jain’s Machines The respondents for this film are Prabhu Mohapatra, Shaunak Sen and Pallavi Paul. Date: 9 February, 2018 Time: 5:30 PM (Tea will be served at 5:00 PM) Venue: The Sarai Programme, Centre for the…

  • The Wager on Cinema: Screening 8 – Ghashiram Kotwal

    The Sarai Programme invites you to the eighth screening of the film series titled, The Wager on Cinema : Yukt Film Cooperative’s Ghashiram Kotwal The respondents for this film are Dhananjay Kapse and Milind Wakankar. Date: 24 November, 2017 Time: 4:30 PM (Tea will be served at 4:00 PM) Venue: The Sarai Programme, Centre for the…

  • The Wager on Cinema: Screening 7 – Nuclear Hallucinations

    The Sarai Programme invites you to the seventh screening of the film series titled, The Wager on Cinema : Fathima Nizaruddin’s Nuclear Hallucinations. The respondents for this film are Subasri Krishnan and Ravi Vasudevan. Date: 17 November, 2017 Time: 5:00 PM (Tea will be served at 4:30 PM) Venue: The Sarai Programme, Centre for the…

  • The Wager on Cinema, Screening 6: Chauthi Koot

    The Sarai Programme invites you to the sixth screening of the film series titled, The Wager on Cinema : Gurvinder Singh’s Chauthi Koot. The respondents for this film are Uma Chakravarti and Ravi Vasudevan. Date: 11 February, 2017 Time: 4 PM (Tea will be served at 3:30 PM) Venue: The Sarai Programme, Centre for the…

  • The Wager on Cinema: Screening 5 – Placebo

    The Sarai Programme invites you to the fifth screening of the film series titled, The Wager on Cinema : Abhay Kumar’s Placebo The respondents for this film are Rahul Roy and Ravi Vasudevan Date: 11 August, 2016 Time: 6 PM (Tea will be served at 5:30 PM) Venue: The Sarai Programme, Centre for the Study…

  • The Wager on Cinema: Screening 4 – ‘Emergency Cinema’

    As part of The Wager on Cinema film series, ‘Emergency Cinema’ – A Presentation on works from the Films Division by Ritika Kaushik, was organised at The Sarai Programme on 22 July, 2016. Founded in 1948, India’s primary state institution of documentaries and short films, Films Division of India had the mandate of making films…

  • The Wager on Cinema: Screening 3 – What The Fields Remember

    How do we estimate the value, aesthetic force, and meaning of cinema today? As media experience, technological change has transformed it beyond recognition, its material forms altered by analog and digital video formats, and the modes of circulating, viewing, accessing cinema and making it have expanded exponentially. And yet, the dream and ambition of cinema as we have known it has not dissipated, the desire to congregate audiences to participate in a distinct world of experience, whether to excite, amuse, to move or to solicit reflection and engagement, to bear witness and to mobilize…