The Bachchan Phenomenon In Bollywood - Ziya Us Salam, Namrata Joshi & Prakash Jha in conversation with Amitabh Bachchan at Habitat World, India Habitat Centre (IHC), Lodhi Road > 5pm on 20th August 2013

Time : 5:00 pm

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Event Description : The Bachchan Phenomenon In Bollywood - Ziya Us Salam, Namrata Joshi & Prakash Jha in conversation with Amitabh Bachchan. 

Moderator: Dr.Ranjani Mazumdar. 

Followed by screening of :
Deewar (1975/176mins) 
Dir.Yash Chopra. About the Panelists: Ziya Us Salam is the Deputy Editor of The Hindu. He writes on films and literature, focussing on works of non-fiction and has a regular literary column Write Angle. Ziya has authored several books. He is currently working on a new book, Portraits Of Islam that projects different hues of Islam in India, across the divide of schools like Deobandi and Barelvi. The only Indian contributor to the anthology, Being Young In The Worlds Of Islam, he has also co-authored Living On The Edge dealing with emerging tension in modern India as well as the bestseller Housefull. His next book Delhi 4 Shows, chronicling the history of cinema of Delhi, is to be released shortly. Namrata Joshi is Senior Associate Editor and film critic with Outlook newsmagazine. She is the winner of India's National Award for Best Film Critic for 2004. A member of FIPRESCI, the international federation of film critics based in Munich, she has been a member of the Fipresci critics' jury at numerous festivals including the Transilvania International Film Festival, Cairo International Film Festival, Moscow International Film Festival and International Film Festival of Kerala. Namrata has written monographs on actresses Nutan and Mumtaz for the series Women In Indian Film edited by Nasreen Munni Kabir for Zubaan Publishing. She has written an essay on 60 Years Of Indian Independence: Nationalism In Popular Hindi Cinema for The Penguin India Reference Yearbook 2007 and has also done an essay on women technicians in Bollywood for Women Changing India published by Zubaan. Producer-director-screenwriter Prakash Jha is most known for his political and socio-political films such as Damul (1984), Mrityudand (1997), Gangaajal (2003), Apaharan (2005), Raajneeti (2010) and Chakravyuh (2012). Over the years he has made several documentaries, feature films, television features and television series including the popular TV serial Mungerilal Ke Hasin Sapne. He is a recipient of the National Award for several of his films. Dr. Ranjani Mazumdar teaches Cinema Studies at the School of Arts & Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University. Her publications focus on urban cultures, popular cinema, gender and the cinematic city. She is the author of Bombay Cinema: An Archive of the City (2007) and co-author with Nitin Govil of the forthcoming The Indian Film Industry (2013). She has also worked as a documentary filmmaker and her productions include Delhi Diary 2001 and The Power of the Image (Co-Directed). Her current research focuses on globalization and film culture, the visual culture of film posters and the intersection of technology, travel and design in 1960s Bombay Cinema.

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