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Snake charmers and Rajahs |
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By: Deepa Gahlot |
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2010-02-06 |
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Place: Mumbai |
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MIFF Diaries: Day 4
Vijaya Mulay's book on portrayal of India in world cinema releases at the MIFF today
Eighty-Nine-year-old Vijaya Mulay, affectionately called Akka, spent considerable time researching how India is
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Been there done that: Vijaya Mulay receives the Lifetime Achievement Award at MIFF 2002. File Pics | portrayed in world cinema. Her book, titled From Rajahs and Yogis to Gandhi and Beyond; subtitle Images of India in International Films of the Twentieth Century, the result of extensive travels and painstaking research, releases today at the Mumbai International Film Festival (MIFF 2010 - February 3 to 9).
"International movies have been wildly inventive in their fantastical imaginings of India. In fact, images of India in these films have said more about the filmmakers than about India. I look upon this study as a personal journey of a film buff to understand what India meant to different people at different points of time as expressed in films."
Vijaya Mulay, a documentary filmmaker, educationist and a pioneer of the film society movement in India, has been a member of the National Film Commission and the president of both the Federation of Film Societies of India and Indian Documentary Producers Association. Her daughter Suhasini Mulay is an actress.
-- Deepa Gahlot |
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