[csaa-forum] Fwd: [TfCcore] IOSARN Film-screening: NAATA (The Bond), 9th March

[Devleena Ghosh]

>
> IOSARN Film-screening
>
> The UTS Indian Ocean and South Asia Research Network invites you to  
> a film-screening:
>
> Date: Monday, 9th March
> TIME: 5 pm
> WHERE: TfC Bagel, UTS Bldg. 3, Level 4, Room 4.02
>
> NAATA (The Bond)
>
> Anjali Monteiro and K.P. Jayasankar, Tata Institute of Social  
> Sciences, Mumbai, India, 45 min
>
> Excerpt from Smriti Srinivas's review of Naata for the
> journal, Visual Anthropology:
>
> ""Naata (The Bond)" is a documentary with four intertwined tales:
>
> Bhau Korde, a migrant to Mumbai with his parents from Ahmednagar  
> district in Gujarat, who worked in a school in Dharavi from  
> 1948-1995, tells the story of his life. Waqar Khan, who arrived in  
> Mumbai with his parents and siblings from Bareilly in Uttar Pradesh,  
> narrates how he held a variety of jobs in the city---as a hawker  
> selling bananas, then readymade garments, and finally, at the time  
> of the making of the film, an owner of a readymade garment unit with  
> 40 machines. The producers and directors, Anjali Monteiro and K.P.  
> Jayashankar, faculty at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences in  
> Mumbai and first generation migrants to the city, also narrate their  
> own story. Unlike Khan and Korde, however, we never see them. Their  
> narrative of their family's life is told through material culture--- 
> toothbrushes, toys, vegetables, and other objects. They describe  
> this documentary as a sort of "self-reflexive ethnography, low  
> budget." It negotiates the middle-class origins of their film and  
> its relationship to the subaltern classes that make another film  
> through gentle self-humor so that while the subaltern speaks, the  
> viewers/directors are not voyeurs or patronizing Others but allied  
> media. The final tale is a tale of two cities inextricably bound to  
> each other: Mumbai, with its impressive skyline, the city of stars,  
> India's great metropolis of about 18 million people, and Dharavi,  
> Asia's largest shantytown with about 800,000 people. The 'slum' that  
> today lies within the heart of Mumbai, built by the labor of  
> migrants who arrive daily to follow their dreams and those displaced  
> by forces within the urban area, find that they live in the shadows  
> of "the Mumbai of the outside" (bahar ki Mumbai) where the directors  
> live.
>
> Further information and RSVP:
> cornelia.betzler at uts.edu.au
>
> The film-screening is organized as part of the IOSARN conference  
> held from March 11 to 13.
>
> See you there.
>
> Cornelia Betzler
> Administration and Communications Officer I Transforming Cultures  
> Research Centre
> Project Officer I Indian Ocean & South Asia Research Network
> Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
> University of Technology, Sydney | PO Box 123, Broadway, NSW 2007 |  
> Australia
> Ph.: +61 2 9514 2768
> www.tfc.uts.edu.au
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(Dr) Devleena Ghosh
Acting Director, Trans/forming Cultures
(University Research Centre)
Director, IOSARN (Indian Ocean and South Asia Research Network)
Associate Professor, Social Inquiry Program
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Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
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Australia

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