'Naukar Ki Kameez' & 'Karvaan' film screenings at Stein Auditorium, India Habitat Centre (IHC), Lodhi Road > 7pm on 20th & 21st February 2013

Time : 7:00 pm

Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served basis)
Note : Call  91-11-43663333 (Habitat World) to re-confirm any last minute change or cancellation of the event.

Place : Stein Auditorium, India Habitat Centre (IHC), Lodhi Road, New Delhi-110003
Parking : Gate No. 1 to 3 (Cars), Gate No. 2 ( Bikes & Bicycles )
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Area : Lodhi Road Area Events

Event Description : Film screenings are as follows : 

20th February : Naukar Ki Kameez (Hindi/1999/104mins) 
Director : Mani Kaul 
Without pretending to portray a period of history, Naukar Ki Kameez is steeped in the liberal pre-economic atmosphere that marked India in the sixties. The film evokes the special lifestyle that India fashioned for itself during fifty years of soviet influenced Socialism. Through the characters: the civil servant, the Sahib, who lives with his spouse in a colonial-type residence, the chief of the alcoholic bureau, Bade Babu, who whiles away his time as he looks for a servant for the Sahib, and Santou, the young hero in the film, and his wife, whose home is flooded every time it rains because of their leaky roof, the film suggests a network of hierarchical relations between people through sometimes subtle and at other times blunt illustrations. The secret manipulations the different characters indulge in, whether it be in their formal exchanges or in their friendships and intimate relations, are confined to the grotesque, as if the aim were to catch the other person out. Among all the protagonists, the capacity to endure the absurd leads to a passivity in which they shift between the tragic and the comic.
21st February : Karvaan (Hindi/2000/104mins) 
Director : Pankaj Butalia 
A Pakistani woman in middle age who grew up in India in the fifties and sixties returns to the spot she knew in her youth. On her return to her former parental home in New Delhi, she is caught up in reminiscences with which she reconstructs her life. Karvaan is a personal reconstruction of the vast migration of Hindus and Muslims in 1947 and its consequences. The film is about the need to return to places from the past, to come to terms with that, however painful that can be. 

Collaboration : Hubert Bals Fund, Rotterdam & The Embassy of The Netherlands

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