62 minutes | English, Hindi & Tamil with English subtitles | 2024 | India
Cinema Pe Cinema: The Theatres. The Movies. And Us. weaves a memory-scape of lives shaped by India’s single-screen cinemas. Through the recollections of people who worked in these theatres and those who loved them, the film traces the intimate, often complex relationships between cinema halls, the movies they screened, and the communities they served. In doing so, it tells the story of India’s small cinemas as a social and cultural history: one deeply entwined with the country’s political and social transformations over the first century of cinema.
The screening will be followed by a discussion between the Director, Vani Subramanian and Usha Rao, Anthropologist & Independent Media Maker. The session will close with an audience Q&A.
date: 2026-02-14 23:22:00