“Ye Dilli Hai Mere Yaar”3: Creating and Capturing Postmodern Delhi, the City of License, in Twenty-First-Century Cinema
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Maaz Bin Bilal
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- Keywords:
- Cinema, Delhi, City of License, Bibakar Banerjee, Mira Nair.
- Abstract
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In this paper, I analyze the reasons first for the absence of the cinema on Delhi and then of its
emergence in the twenty first century. The majority of these are tied up with the growth of Delhi itself as a
megalopolis, which I shall seek to expostulate. In the latter part of my paper, I pick upon two films by
Dibakar Banerjee, Khosla ka Ghosla (2006) and Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye! (2008), and one by Mira Nair,
Monsoon Wedding (2001), to closely analyze them, and show how the best of city cinema works in close
conjunction with the city itself to capture as well as create it, both materially as well as in the
imagination of the citizen. It focuses on the minutiae of everyday life rather than architectural landmarks
of the city. - Downloads
- Published
- 2015-07-02
- Issue
- Vol. 4 No. 3 (2015)
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- Articles