About the lecture

This lecture will focus on the portrayal of Bombay in films like Ritesh Batra’s Lunch Box (2013) and Photograph (2019), Milind Dhaimade’s Tu Hai Mera Sunday (2016), Kiran Rao’s Dhobi Ghat (2010), and Rohena Gera’s Sir (2018). The mapping of the city draws on a minimalist approach to everyday life, along with an impulse to recall the city’s past, present and future.

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About the speaker

Ranjani Majumdar is Professor of Cinema Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University’s School of Arts and Aesthetics. Her publications focus on popular cinema, techno-urbanism, and the cinematic city. She is the author of Bombay Cinema: An Archive of the City (2007), co-editor of the Wiley Blackwell Companion to Indian Cinema (2022), and guest editor of two special issues of Bioscope on cinema and techno-materiality (2013) and a dossier on Pathaan (2023). Her current research interests include intermedial encounters, contemporary nonfiction media aesthetics, globalisation and film culture, and the intersection of technology, travel, design, and colour in 1960s Bombay cinema.