Artists' Television Access
992 Valencia St
415.824.3890
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Courtesy 3rd i South Asian Film
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Saturday July 24, 2010 (7pm)
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$8 - 10
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“The Merchant Ivory film Shakespeare Wallah (1965) is adapted from the story of the Kendals, a British family who traveled through post-colonial India performing Shakespearean plays. In the movie, daughter Lizzie Buckingham — played by Felicity Kendal herself — falls in love with a South Asian man played by Shashi Kapoor. But in true Shakespearean fashion, Kapoor in reality fell in love with Felicity's older sister, Jennifer. The couple got married and went on to open a theater in Mumbai, and star in several films together. Tonight, SF State professor Gitanjali Shahani speaks to Shakespeare Wallah and other Bollywood movies as examples of the influences and adaptations of Shakespeare in Indian cinema.”
Bonnie Chan, Flavorpill
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Prof. Gitanjali Shahani introduces us to the many manifestations, adaptations, and appropriations of Shakespeare in popular Hindi cinema, or Bollywood. Over the last few decades, Shakespeare has been re-imagined and re-invoked through numerous Bollywood films — even through the item numbers, song and dance interludes, and fight sequences! Using clips from both classic (Merchant-Ivory's Shakespeare Wallah) and contemporary films (Vishal Bharadwaj's Maqbool and Omakra, broody and brilliant adaptations of Macbeth and Othello), Shahani shows us how the colonial contexts of Shakespearean production have been transformed into the post-colonial contexts of Shakespearean reproduction in contemporary India.
