DOC FILM "Being Bhaijan" By Samreen Faroouqui And Shabani Hassanwalia at School of Arts and Aesthetics Auditorium (SAA), Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Mehrauli Road > 4:30pm on 23rd September 2016

Time : 4:30 pm Add to Calendar 23/09/2016 16:30 23/09/2016 18:00 Asia/Kolkata DOC FILM "Being Bhaijan" By Samreen Faroouqui And Shabani Hassanwalia Event Page : http://www.delhievents.com/2016/09/doc-film-being-bhaijan-by-samreen.html School of Arts and Aesthetics Auditorium (SAA), Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Mehrauli Road, New Delhi - 110067 DD/MM/YYYY

Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served Basis)

Venue : School of Arts and Aesthetics Auditorium (SAA), Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Mehrauli Road, New Delhi - 110067
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Nearest Metro Stations - 'Hauz Khas(Yellow Line)' &  'Delhi Aerocity(Orange Line)'

Event Description : School of Arts and Aesthetics,  Jawaharlal Nehru University Presents "Being Bhaijan" A Documentary Film By Samreen Faroouqui And Shabani Hassanwalia

The Directors will be present for a Q&A

About the Film: Posters of his dance shows say that Shan Ghosh, Salman Lookalike by profession and passion, is the 'Junior Salman of Nagpur'. He is ‘hamara Salman’ on the very intense Jai Salman Whatsapp group, and a beloved bhai to textile salesman Balram and the engineer-at-heart, Bhaskar. Along with other Salman fans, they’ve launched a collective search for a larger identity, to replace the very ordinary one life handed out to them.

Being Bhaijaan explores Indian masculinity by mapping the emotional, spiritual and philosophical contribution Salman Khan makes in the lives of three men in small-town India, who find themselves increasingly disassociated with a changing country, its competitiveness, and its new woman. To find solace in a notion of manhood, constructed brick-by-brick, through a superstar’s perceived personality, which is as old-world as Salman Khan’s films.

About the Filmmakers: Samreen Farooqui and Shabani Hassanwalia founded Hit and Run Films in 2005, an independent video production unit, which engages with changing socio-political-personal realities through non-fiction cinema.

Their first feature documentary, Out of Thin Air, on Ladakhi local cinema was an official selection at International Film festival of Rotterdam and was the opening film at Film South Asia, 2009, besides playing at numerous other festivals. Their second feature Online and Available, released in 2012, told a story of an India-in-transition through its online identity formation and played at Mumbai International Film Festival, 2012. Both the documentaries have been broadcast on Documentary 24X7 on NDTV.

They have worked as associate directors and editors of Star by Dibakar Banerjee, as part of the Bombay Talkies omnibus, to celebrate the 100 years of Indian Cinema in 2013. 

Their work on gender and sexuality involves Bioscope: Non-binary Conversations on Gender and Education (2013) and the feature length Being Bhaijaan, produced by PSBT. It is the official selection at the New York Indian Film Festival, Film South Asia and Mumbai International Film Festival, 2015 and has been broadcast on Channel 4, UK.

They are currently working on a feature documentary on urban contemporary street culture in the changing Delhi landscape, supported by the India Foundation for the Arts. They are also in post-production of the companion documentary to Bombay Talkies’ Star, which explores the search for the extraordinary as enabled by cinema.

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