Ranjani Mazumdar

Ranjani Mazumdar is Professor of 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 (2015). Her current research focuses on globalization and film culture, the visual culture of film posters and the intersection of technology, travel, design and colour in 1960s Bombay Cinema....

Screening: Masaan

Within Encounter of Conscious Realities program, with Sàn Art sponsorship, Hoa Sen University’s Art House Saigon will screen the movie Masaan directed by Neeraj Ghaywan. Masaan has won FIPRESCI (International Federation of Film Critics) prize and Prix de l’avenir during Cannes festival this year. After the screening, the viewers will have a chance to meet cinema scholar Ranjani Mazumdar, who will introduce and discuss Indian cinema through history and urban culture. Masaan is director Neeraj Ghaywan’s debut feature set in contemporary Banaras, India’s best known ancient religious city located on...