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HOME is Manchester’s centre for art, film home box office and theatre. Find us at the heart of the mcr. 0161 200 1500 city centre, at First St, just off Whitworth org home St West within easy reach of Manchester’s great public transport links and parking nearby. Our building is fully accessible, informal NEW FILM SEASON and relaxed. We have a café and a restaurant both offering a delicious menu for all ages. Whether you want to see exciting new NOT JUST work, get closer to directors, writers, filmmakers and artists, drink the best coffee in town or just pop in for a look BOLLYWOOD around, you’re welcome at HOME! VISIT HOME . SEASON MULTI DEAL 2 Tony Wilson Place Book two or more individual films in our Manchester Not Just Bollywood season and save… M15 4FN TUE 11 SEP – SUN 30 SEP Number of Discount off each ticket For venue, event information and booking films homemcr.org 2-4 £1 Box office 5+ £1.50 0161 200 1500 FILM PRICES KEEP IN TOUCH e-news HOMEmcr.org/sign-up Off Peak (before 17:00) Twitter @HOME_mcr #NotJustBollywood £7 (Members £5.50) Facebook HOMEmcr Peak (from 17:00) Instagram @HOMEmcr £9 (Members £7) Audioboom HOMEmcr HOMEmcrorg Limited £5 student advance tickets and YouTube HOMEmcr concessions available, please see website Flickr for details. if you don’t want to keep me please return to our box office staff or recycle me! A season of independent Indian cinema at HOME. HOME is a trading name of Greater Manchester Arts Centre Ltd, a company limited by guarantee, registered in England and Wales No: 1681278. Registered office 2 Tony Wilson Place, Manchester, M15 4FN Charity No: 514719. #NotJustBollywood Kadvi Hawa, 2017 NOT JUST The Hungry (18) + Q&A BOLLYWOOD Sat 15 Sep, 18:00 Dir Bornila Chatterjee/GB IN 2017/100 mins Naseeruddin Shah, Tisca Chopra, Antonio Aakeel . This dark and twisted adaptation of Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus stages a story of revenge, family TUE 11 SEP – and betrayal in the world of an emerging wealthy Indian elite. SUN 30 SEP Naseeruddin Shah, one of Indian cinema’s greatest actors, delivers This September, HOME presents the Masaan, 2015 an exquisite masterclass in political second Not Just Bollywood season, skullduggery. Masaan (15) + discussion screening classic and new titles from India’s independent film scene. Tue 18 Sep, 17:50 Event/ We will be joined by DIr Neeraj Ghaywan/IN 2015/109mins/Hindi wEng ST Curated by the University of producer Kurban Kassam and Richa Chadda, Vicky Kaushal, Shweta Tripathi Bandit Queen (18) Manchester’s Omar Ahmed, the actor Antonio Aakeel for a post- Winner of two prizes at Cannes Film season will take you on a whirlwind Tue 11 Sep, 20:15 screening Q&A. Festival, director Neeraj Ghaywan’s tour of the country’s most exciting Dir Shekhar Kapur/GB IN 1994/120 mins/ Hindi debut feature (written by Varun filmmaking voices as well as giving you and Assamese wEng ST Grover) is a multi-narrative work an opportunity to take part in post-film Seema Biswas, Nirmal Pandey, Rajesh Vivek that pivots on the issue of caste and events. Based on the life of Phoolan Devi, features rising star Vicky Kaushal in This year, our film selection explores India’s most feared outlaw, director the role of a lower caste boy. the changing on-screen representations Shekhar Kapur’s controversial of caste, shaping global conversations masterwork is a brutal tale of Event/ This screening will be followed around feminism, climate change and caste oppression. Bandit Queen by a free and informal discussion. family and providing a window into fuses the Western and melodrama Indian society today. into a stirring narrative of feminist The Hungry, 2017 Re-imagining Caste in Indian From insightful documentaries to noir resistance with a haunting Cinema performance by Seema Biswas. thrillers, there’s something to suit every Given the atrocities that are film fan. Screening from a 35mm print. committed in the name of caste almost Bandit Queen, 1994 All films will screen without adverts and every day in India, recent attempts by trailers and will start at the advertised Indian filmmakers to reconnect with time. caste discrimination are profoundly #NotJustBollywood urgent. This discussion will attempt to take stock of the shifts, trends and homemcr.org/not-just-bollywood themes that have characterised the One Hour Intro/ Caste on re-imagining of caste in contemporary Indian Screen: Marginalising Indian cinema in the UK and beyond. the real in the reel This event is supported by the AHRC North West Consortium Doctoral Training Tue 11 Sep, 18:30 Partnership (NWCDTP) and the University of Manchester. £4 full / £3 concs Kadvi Hawa (15) Using film clips as examples, this talk Jai Bhim Comrade, 2012 Tikli and Laxmi Bomb (18) + Thu 13 Sep, 18:15 looks at the representation of caste Introduction in Indian cinema. With reference Dir Nila Madhab Panda/IN 2017/95 mins/Hindi wEng ST Jai Bhim Comrade (18) to films that do address the caste Sun 30 Sep, 17:15 Sanjay Mishra, Ranvir Shorey, Tillotama Shome system, this presentation looks at the Sun 16 Sep, 15:10 Dir Aditya Kripalani/IN 2017/148 mins/Hindi wEng ST Versatile actor Sanjay Mishra issue of underrepresentation of Dalits Dir Anand Patwardhan/IN 2012/182 mins/English, Hindi This brilliantly nuanced debut from who played the lead in Rajat and Marathi with partial Eng ST (“untouchables”) on the Indian screen, Aditya Kripalani depicts the tragic Kapoor’s Ankhon Dekhi returns to This extraordinary chronicle and mirroring the marginalisation of nearly lives of female sex workers who come exhilarating form in director Nila political odyssey of the Dalit 25% of Indians in popular culture. together to defy the system and start a Madhab Panda’s cautionary work (“untouchable”) movement in India revolution. Led by Sanghita Sen, Department of Film about the devastating impact of is arguably the highpoint to activist Studies at the University of St. Andrews. climate change on the lives of debt Anand Patwardhan’s remarkable career Event/ This screening will be introduced Join us after this talk for the screening ridden farmers in Rajasthan. as Indian cinema’s most celebrated Kadvi Hawa, 2017 Tikli and Laxmi Bomb, 2017 by season curator Omar Ahmed of Bandit Queen. documentary filmmaker. .