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Indian Cinema Beyond Bollywood, 2018
South Asian Popular Culture, 2019
This article conducts empirical research on the use of new media by the National Film Development... more This article conducts empirical research on the use of new media by the National Film Development Corporation (NFDC). It critically engages with its DVD campaign launched under the Cinemas of India (COI) label in 2012. This is done with a larger view to assess the afterlife of New Cinema and map the creation of an alternative archive. The digitally restored NFDC films constitute valuable empirical tools for film studies; the DVDs have made the text 'attainable' in the hands of a film scholar. However, the article does not seek to textually analyse the content of the films restored, nor is it a technical study of DVDs, instead the DVDs are assessed on their archival potential to study New Cinemai.e., (Hindi) films that were made and supported by the Corporation during the 1970s to early 1990s. In the end, the article tries to hint towards the challenges of doing film history in a digital age.
Economic and Political Weekly, Jun 13, 2013
2012 was the birth centenary of Saadat Hasan Manto and was celebrated in Lahore, Karachi, New Yor... more 2012 was the birth centenary of Saadat Hasan Manto and was celebrated in Lahore, Karachi, New York, and his own "muse" Bombay (now Mumbai). This is an attempt to remember Partition by revisiting Manto's memories of the event documented in his Partition stories. These stories are valuable documents, indispensable for historians studying the human dimensions of that event. Such studies on the historical appraisal of literary works, based on memories and survivors' accounts, can provide important breakthroughs for a better understanding of the aftermath of the division of the country and can prove to be history's "alternate archive". A study of such literary writings needs to be included in the reference list for the study of Partition.
South Asian Popular Culture
Indian Cinema Beyond Bollywood, 2018
South Asian Popular Culture, 2019
This article conducts empirical research on the use of new media by the National Film Development... more This article conducts empirical research on the use of new media by the National Film Development Corporation (NFDC). It critically engages with its DVD campaign launched under the Cinemas of India (COI) label in 2012. This is done with a larger view to assess the afterlife of New Cinema and map the creation of an alternative archive. The digitally restored NFDC films constitute valuable empirical tools for film studies; the DVDs have made the text 'attainable' in the hands of a film scholar. However, the article does not seek to textually analyse the content of the films restored, nor is it a technical study of DVDs, instead the DVDs are assessed on their archival potential to study New Cinemai.e., (Hindi) films that were made and supported by the Corporation during the 1970s to early 1990s. In the end, the article tries to hint towards the challenges of doing film history in a digital age.
Economic and Political Weekly, Jun 13, 2013
2012 was the birth centenary of Saadat Hasan Manto and was celebrated in Lahore, Karachi, New Yor... more 2012 was the birth centenary of Saadat Hasan Manto and was celebrated in Lahore, Karachi, New York, and his own "muse" Bombay (now Mumbai). This is an attempt to remember Partition by revisiting Manto's memories of the event documented in his Partition stories. These stories are valuable documents, indispensable for historians studying the human dimensions of that event. Such studies on the historical appraisal of literary works, based on memories and survivors' accounts, can provide important breakthroughs for a better understanding of the aftermath of the division of the country and can prove to be history's "alternate archive". A study of such literary writings needs to be included in the reference list for the study of Partition.
South Asian Popular Culture