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...preparations for an arranged marriage between two wealthy New Delhi families unfold, we engage in the heady rush towards the cosmopolitanism which India’s burgeoning middle classes have so eagerly embraced. Making little or no attempt to represent income disparities, the film instead celebrates the joys of excess and consumption, perfectly illustrated through the analogy of a wedding...
...young woman who was to become one of India’s most acclaimed modern filmmakers left her home in Delhi for the first time. The plane took her across the world to Cambridge, Mass...
She’d seen Harvard’s red bricks and white trim only in the film Love Story—but her top choice, Wellesley College, wouldn’t give her credit for her studies at Delhi University, and Yale had lost her application altogether. So she came to Harvard along with a passion for theater, a wide smile and an open mind...
...senior thesis, Nair submitted the 18-minute Jama Masjid Street Journal. The documentary observes and interacts with a Muslim community in old Delhi...
...that's also called Adoor, was writing and acting in plays from the age of eight. Movies, his family believed, were vacuous spectacles for nostalgic city dwellers. Adoor was planning to study drama, a more respectable art form, when he made an unpleasant discovery: to attend the school in Delhi, he had to speak fluent Hindi. He quickly lowered his standards and instead in 1962 entered India's new Film and Television Institute in Pune, believing that writing for the screen couldn't be too different than writing for the stage. But the New Wave movement was revolutionizing cinema around...