home box office mcr. 0161 200 1500 org home PARTITION A weekend of screenings and special events marking the 70th anniversary of the Partition of India.

Qissa, 2013 FRI 9 – SUN 11 JUN HOME presents a weekend The Cloud-Capped Star Qissa of cinematic representations and responses to the events that divided India in 1947, creating first Pakistan and later Bangladesh. The season is designed to THE CLOUD-CAPPED STAR (PG) ONE HOUR INTRO/ PARTITION ON enhance understanding of (MEGHE DHAKA TARA) FILM this momentous historical Sun 11 Jun, 17:00 event, as well as exploring Sat 10 Jun, 15:15 Dir Ritwik Ghatak/IN 1960/122 mins/Bengali wEng ST Tickets £4 full / £3 concs the meanings and legacies of Supriya Choudhury, Anil Chatterjee, Gyanesh Mukherjee This talk will reflect on the imaginings Partition today. Through its tale of Nita’s struggle to keep her refugee family afloat,The of Partition, notably in Indian cinema, Curated by Andy Willis, Reader Cloud-Capped Star operates as a harsh uncovering the reasons for the continued in Film Studies at the University criticism of the social and economic relative silence around such a divisive of Salford, and HOME’s Senior conditions that arose from Partition - a history, how filmmakers have responded Visiting Curator: Film. driving force in the life of celebrated over the years, and the contested filmmaker Ritwik Ghata. role film has played in the traumatic Partition is generously supported by aftermath. The talk will be supported B&M Retail. QISSA: THE TALE OF A LONELY with sequences from key films on GHOST (CTBA) + Q&A Partition. Sat 10 Jun, 18:00 Led by Omar Ahmed, curator of our Dir Anup Singh/DE IN NL FR 2013/109 mins/Punjabi wEng ST forthcoming film season Not Just Irrfan Khan, Tisca Chopra, Tillotama Shome Bollywood, which runs at HOME in Through its story of a man (Irrfan Khan) September 2017. forced to leave his home and move his family, Anup Singh’s Qissa deftly VICEROY’S HOUSE (12A) explores the psychological as well as the Fri 9 Jun, 15:45 physical impact of Partition. Dir Gurinder Chadha/GB IN 2017/106 mins Gillian Anderson, Michael Gambon, Hugh Bonneville Event/ We will be joined by director Chadha’s film deals with complex issues Anup Singh for a post-screening Q&A. and ideas through the lens of those E-Flat occupying the Viceroy’s house. As those THE NAME OF A RIVER (CTBA) upstairs plan the Partition of India, a + Q&A E-FLAT (CTBA) romance blossoms between a couple (EKTI NODIR NAAM) (KOMAL GANDHAR) of servants below - one Hindu and one Sun 11 Jun, 14:00 Sun 11 Jun, 18:30 Muslim. Dir Anup Singh/BD IN GB 2002/90 mins/Bengali wEng ST Dir Ritwik Ghatak/IN 1961/134 mins/Bengali wEng ST Shibprasad Mukhopadhyay, Shami Kaiser, Supriya Choudhury Supriya Choudhury, Abanish Banerjee, Anil Chatterjee MANGO DREAMS (CTBA) Inspired by the work of legendary Ritwik Ghatak once again takes the Fri 9 Jun, 18:25 director Ritwik Ghatak (E-Flat results of Partition as inspiration for Dir John Upchurch/US 2016/94 mins and The Cloud-Capped Star), Anup this compelling, allegorical, backstage Ram Gopal Bajaj, Pankaj Tripathy, Sameer Kochhar Singh’s documentary-style drama uses drama that focuses on two rival A doctor beginning to suffer from the love story between a couple crossing theatre companies who have to work Alzheimer’s disease seeks the assistance the river between Bangladesh and India together on a production of the classic of a rickshaw driver to find his childhood to explore a range of issues generated Shakuntala. home. Together they embark on a by Partition. E-Flat and The Cloud-Capped Star journey that explores their experiences presented with thanks to the Ritwik of post-Partition India. Event/ We will be joined by director Anup Singh for a post-screening Q&A. Ghatak Memorial Trust and Sanghita Sen, University of St. Andrews.

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