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‘King of India’ to screen at Filmbase - 16 June
The Indian Embassy will present King of India and other films by Arvind Sinha at an evening screening on Tuesday 16th June in Filmbase.
The director will be in attendance and will be introduced by Siraj Zaidi.
All welcome event is free, followed by tea and coffee
For more info: contact Siraj Zaidi @ 087 283 2259 or email szaidi@oceanfree.net
Arvind Sinha’s new film travels into streets and bylanes of a Kolkata we do not generally get to see, thus throwing up a collage of the city from a perspective many are not familiar with. King of India was screened at the Joris Ivens Competition at IDFA in Amsterdam, one of the two Indian films ever to have been selected for its main competition.
Short clips of the following will also be shown:
- Dhrupad in the time of liberalisation (30 mins.).This is about the situation of Dhrupad,the oldest surviving form of Hindustani classical music today.
- The Saint who became the world (58 mins). This is a film on Swami Vivekananda.
