[csaa-forum] seminar in July

[Devleena Ghosh]

TRANSFORMING CULTURES AND SOUTH ASIA SEMINAR SERIES PRESENTS:

  A SEMINAR BY DR MEENAKSHI BHARAT

Dr Meenakshi Bharat is a Reader in English and Head of the Department 
of English at Sri Venkateswara College, University of Delhi. Her 
critical interests include film. Children’s literature and Postcolonial 
Studies. Her publications include The Ultimate Colony, (Allied 
Publishers: New Delhi, 2003) and Desert in Bloom: Contemporary Indian 
Women’s Fiction in English, (Pencraft: New Delhi, 2004). She is 
currently working on a collection of essays on the Indo-Pak 
relationship in Films.

Date: 21st July
Day: Thursday
Time: 6 pm
Venue: Bon Marche (Bldg 3) 210 UTS

City slick vs. village hick: A Study of changing perceptions in Hindi 
films

Over the past two to three decades, Bollywood films have shown a 
remarkable change in the way they perceive the city. Earlier films like 
Mother India, Upkar, Mera Gaon Mera Desh, Ponga Pandit, to mention just 
a few box office successes of the past, reveal a marked and significant 
use of rural settings. But under the recent wave of global awareness, 
the village, the rural has been virtually given the boot. ‘Global’ 
sensibilities, emphasizing the need for ‘globally’ pertinent subjects, 
deploy marketing strategies that are primarily global in target. The 
evolution of the nation from a developing entity to that of a developed 
one seems to demand the representation of a face more internationally 
amenable and accessible, more understandable than the earlier, more 
esoteric rural one. While identifying the specific changes in the 
perspective of filmmakers, my presentation will explore the reasons, 
other than the instigatory above, for this transition to overly urban 
themes and urban characters. The effort will be to essay a probe into 
the dynamics and the problematics entailed in the construction of the 
urban sheen and sophistication by largely city-bred and city-located 
directors and producers in Hindi cinema.


(Dr) Devleena Ghosh
Senior Lecturer
Writing Journalism and Social Inquiry
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
University of Technology, Sydney
Australia

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