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Shortly after the Lumière Brothers displayed their pioneering films in colonial India on 7 July 1896, there arose independent studios that created an entirely novel type of film exclusively for Indian spectators. We will be taking the iconic silent film, Raja Harishchandra (1913), as our point of departure for an overview of film as a transcultural Indian genre. What kind of stories became enshrined as time-tested? How were the stories narrated, with what kind of characters? To what extent were Indian films influenced both by classical traditions at home, and in the West? Post-Independence, what changes were made in the films of the 1950s? And today, how is the Indian diaspora in the West depicted by mainstream films made in Mumbai (Bombay)? |
