Film Screenings
Maa Bhoomi
Bangalore Film Forum, S.V. Srinivas and Ashish Rajadhyaksha
Rooted in the belief that cinema can entertain, inspire, and transform cultures, the Bangalore Film Forum, through MAP, presents a screening of Maa Bhoomi. This gripping adaptation of Krishan Chander’s novella tells the story of Ramayya, a landless farmer who rises against oppression during the Telangana uprising (1944-1946) in Hyderabad. Directed by Goutam Ghose, the film captures the spirit of rebellion and resilience, connecting past struggles with broader social grievances, such as the famine of 1974.
Join us for this film screening at MAP. The event will be facilitated by Ashish Rajadhyaksha, a distinguished film historian, and S.V. Srinivas, a noted scholar of media and popular culture.
This film screening is the fourth of our six-month long series, The Radical Seventies, part of our youth engagement programming for AUD/VID which is a collaboration between MAP and Bangalore Film Forum, and co-curated by Ashish Rajadhyaksha. The Radical Seventies is a series that is specially crafted for youth to engage with older classics that resonate with our contemporary times, in familiar and unexpected ways.
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Ashish Rajadhyaksha
Ashish Rajadhyaksha has authored significant works like The Encyclopaedia of Indian Cinema (with Paul Willemen, 1994/1999) and Indian Cinema in the Time of Celluloid From Bollywood to the Emergency (2009), while Srinivas, a professor at Azim Premji University, is known for his books on Telugu cinema, including Megastar: Chiranjeevi and Telugu Cinema after NT Rama Rao (2009) and Politics as Performance: A Social History of Telugu Cinema (2013).
S.V. Srinivas
S.V. Srinivas teaches courses in literature and media at Azim Premji University. His research focuses on the intersections between moving images, entertainment industries, and mass politics in India. He is an occasional translator (Telugu to English), and author of commentaries on popular culture.He has two books on Telugu cinema: Megastar: Chiranjeevi and Telugu Cinema after NT Rama Rao (Oxford University Press, 2009) and Politics as Performance: A Social History of the Telugu Cinema (Permanent Black, 2013).
