OTHER KOHINOORS, THE ROCKS OF HYDERABAD Film screening

In collaboration with Kriti Film Club

Date: 23 Nov 24

Time: 6.00pm - 8.00pm

Location: KNMA Saket

Experience natural heritage in urban cities at ‘The Elemental You’ Film screening of Other Kohinoors, The Rocks of Hyderabad, curated by Kriti Film Club. Converse with the filmmaker, Uma Magal and Dr Arshiya Sethi, Artivist, facilitated by Aanchal Kapur.

Description:

To think and feel like a Rock, at ‘The Elemental You’ Film screenings with the documentary, Other Kohinoors, The Rocks of Hyderabad, by Uma Magal. Join the conversation with the filmmaker and Dr Arshiya Sethi, Artivist, scholar of the dance and arts, and author, committed to protecting built and natural heritage. Facilitated by Aanchal Kapur, Curator and Founder, Kriti Film Club

OTHER KOHINOORS, THE ROCKS OF HYDERABAD (49 mins | English, Telugu and Dakhani with English subtitles | 2023 | Docu) by Uma Magal

A love letter to the rocks of Hyderabad. We speak so often of the one Kohinoor that is lost from our area, but not so much about these Other Kohinoors: our priceless rocks that we have been losing on a massive scale over the past few decades. The film celebrates the rocks that remain even as it grieves for the ones that are lost. It unveils their respectful, grateful, and affectionate infusion in the area's cultural imagination and calls to retain the rocks that remain. Watch Trailer

"It was an absolute delight to see your film on the rocks of Hyderabad. It brought back fond memories of my childhood and growing years running around and climbing the rocks that were accessible for the sheer pleasure of it." (Shyam Benegal)

Filmmaker Bio: Uma is the owner of Fenugreek Productions, a boutique studio for media and film work & training. She has a M.A. in Communication from the Mass Communication Research Centre, J. M. I., Delhi and an M.F.A in film and media studies from Temple University, USA. She has previously produced a PBS weekly series, taught film and media at San Francisco State and Temple Universities and served on the boards of Asian Arts Initiative and Independent Film and Video Association in Philadelphia. In India, she has served as independent faculty in film aesthetics, documentary production and Indian Cinema at COMMITS - Bengaluru, The University of Hyderabad and Annapurna Film School. She is currently immersed in outreach with Other Kohinoors, the Rocks of Hyderabad. www.otherkohinoors.com

Speaker Bio: Dr. Arshiya Sethi has been writing and commenting on the arts for over four decades. Twice a Fulbright Fellow. Editor in Chief of the international Dance Journal, 'South Asian Dance Intersections' published by the University of North Carolina, Charlotte, USA, she has several essays in publications including international ones. Co-author of the book 'Non-Gharanedaar: Moranrao Kallianpurkar the paviour of Kathak', which has the distinction of being the first book on Indian dance with QR codes and a cloud attached to it. She has also edited the international publication "Dance under the Shadow of the Nation" looking at how Dance adapts when out of familiar boxes of nationhood and national borders. She has recently translated Prerna Shrimali's book "Tatkaar: The internal journey of Kathak". She is currently completing her book on Sattriya through a political lens. Her new ongoing work is on Arts and the Law. Sethi has been acknowledged as an institution builder building tangible institutions like the India Habitat Centre, or intangible ones like city festivals and even digital ones like DanzLenz, India’s dance film festival. She has been active in protecting built and natural heritage, and has written, created awareness of the subject through the arts and her writing and has even picketed when heritage has been put at risk.

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