CINEMA CITY MUMBAI

A series of five short films. DO RAFIFEEQ by Rafeeq Ellias Rafeeq meets Rafique Bagdadi, an extraordinary living archive of the city and its cinema, and explores the cinema city through him. CINEMA AND THE PUBLIC by Avjit Mukul Kishore An impressionistic sketch of 'the public' as created by our cinema and its relationship with cinema itself. CINEMA OF ROMANCE / ROMANCE OF CITY by Hansa Thapliyal A cinema theatre in a suburb of cinema city, is pulled down. Three women, who live in that suburb, reflect on their various relationships with that fantasy of a film in a darkened theatre. Was it ever theirs’? BHAIS, DADAS AND CINEMAS by Sankalp Meshram: The film will set out to discover various hypotheses based on the city's crime scene & try to arrive at some form of cinematic articulation that is expressive of this great contradiction called Bombay.