{"id":411,"date":"2023-10-11T14:51:08","date_gmt":"2023-10-11T14:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/satyajit-ray.de\/lecture-ruchir-joshi-film-mahanagar\/"},"modified":"2023-10-11T14:51:08","modified_gmt":"2023-10-11T14:51:08","slug":"lecture-ruchir-joshi-film-mahanagar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/satyajit-ray.de\/en\/lecture-ruchir-joshi-film-mahanagar\/","title":{"rendered":"Lecture: Ruchir Joshi. Film: Mahanagar"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Thursday, 06.06.2024, 8 pm<\/h4>\n<p>Ruchir Joshi (Kolkata)<br \/>\n<em><strong>Two Views of the City: Ray and Ghatak<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Made within three years of each other, and both led by &#8216;middle-class&#8217; working women protagonists. Ray&#8217;s Mahanagar (The Big City, 1963) and Ritwik Ghatak&#8217;s Meghe Dhaka Tara (The Cloud-capped Star, 1960) provide overlapping yet radically divergent visions of post-independence, post-Partition Calcutta. Ghatak&#8217;s particularly different approach to cinema and Bengal throws an illuminating bounce-light on Ray&#8217;s practice at that time, his world-view and and his cinematic handwriting.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ruchir Joshi<\/strong> is a film-maker, columnist and writer based in Kolakata.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Screening: MAHANAGAR (THE BIG CITY)<\/strong>, India 1963, 128 min. Screening at 6 pm: <strong>MEGHE DHAKA TARA (THE CLOUD-CAPPED STAR)<\/strong>, India 1960, 127 min.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday, 06.06.2024, 8 pm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":281,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-411","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-summer-semester-2024-en","8":"czr-hentry"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Lecture: Ruchir Joshi. 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