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Nisha Pahuja
is a freelance filmmaker, writer, producer, and researcher who was
born in India, but grew up in Toronto. Her third film, The World Before Her won the
World Documentary Competition Award at Tribeca Film Festival, where it premiered.
Though she grew up in Toronto, this is her second film focusing on India. She makes
films that deal with social and political issues and are driven by character and narrative.
The World Before Her
(2012) Directed by Nisha Pahuja
February 27 - Thursday - 7:00 p.m.
The World Before Her is a tale of two Indias. In one, Ruhi Singh is a
small-town girl competing in Bombay to win the Miss India pageant--a
ticket to stardom in a country wild about beauty contests. In the other
India, Prachi Trivedi is the young, militant leader of a fundamentalist
Hindu camp for girls, where she preaches violent resistance to Western
culture, Christianity, and Islam. Moving between these divergent
realities, the film creates a lively, provocative portrait of the world's
largest democracy at a critical transitional moment--and of two
women who hope to shape its future. (HD. 90 min. Not Rated.)
Director Nisha Pahuja is scheduled to be present. Events are
cosponsored by the Dhar India Studies Program.
The Lady From Shanghai
(1948)
Directed by Orson Welles
March 7 - Friday - 7:00 p.m.
*Tickets are $3
Orson Welles' iconic noir classic has never looked this
good. This stunning restoration was completed from 4K
scans of the original nitrate negative. A former seaman
(Welles) gets mixed-up in a murder plot while working on
the yacht of an odd, wealthy couple. (2K DCP. 87 min.
Not Rated.)
Introduction by Professor Emeritus James
Naremore and followed by a discussion led by Naremore
and Craig Simpson.
James Naremore
is Chancellors' Professor Emeritus in
Communication and Culture, English, and Comparative Literature
at Indiana University. He has received numerous academic honors,
including a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Kraszna-Krausz Moving
Image Book Award, and his seven books and numerous articles cover
impressive theoretical and critical ground. He is the author of The Magic
World of Orson Welles (Southern Methodist University Press, 1989) and was
instrumental in bringing the Orson Welles materials to the Lilly Library, which
includes about 20,000 items and pertain to Welles's activities on radio, stage,
and film as well as to his personal and political life.
Hrishikesh and Sailabala Bhattacharya
Memorial Lecture with Nisha Pahuja
February 28 - Friday - 3:00 p.m.