Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 13:56:08 -0500
Subject: Indo-Egyptian filmfestival -AT-NYU


The Hagop Kevorkian Center 1999 Film Festival -AT- NYU

"Dancing in the Rain:  Indo-Egyptian Musical Films"

January 28-30, 1999

Featuring Indian filmmaker Ram Gopal Varma
and Egyptian filmmaker Khairy Bishara

NOTE:  Reservations are required for attendance; 
please call 998-8872 or email shiva.balaghi-AT-nyu.edu to reserve your seat.


THURSDAY, JANUARY 28, 6:15 - 10:00 pm
Cantor Film Center, 36 East 8th Avenue, room 200

film screening:  "Satya:  The Other Side of Truth,"  by Ram Gopal Varma
(India, 1998, 135 minutes)  color, Hindi w/English subtitles
Introduced by Director Ram Gopal Varma
Roundtable discussion with director:  Lalitha Gopalan (Georgetown), Richard
Pena (Program Director, Film Society of the Lincoln Center), Jeremiah
Newton (NYU, Tisch School of Arts) 

	Called the first Indian gangsta film, "Satya: The Other Side of Truth"
(1998) has received wide notice in India.  A musical about the violence of
the Mumbai underworld, "Satya," is an intriguing blend of genres.  In
Sunday Mid-Day, reviewer Dinesh Raheja writes, "Ramu knows his directorial
onions....he injects his characters with a bead-sweat desperation that's
impossible to tear your eyes away from." A reviewer in the newspaper Asian
Age wrote, "Satya hits the screen like a bullet."  Ali Peter John of Screen
wrote, "Ramu's truth can save the youth of this country.  It can.  It will.
 That's why it must be seen by every Indian who still loves the truth, by
every Indian who still swears he is an Indian.  I am obsessed by Ramu's
‘Satya' because I am obsessed by the bitter truth."    

FRIDAY, JANUARY 29, 6:15 - 10:00 pm
Cantor Film Center, 36 East 8th Avenue, room 200

film screening:  "Ice Cream in Gleam,"  by Khairy Bishara
(Egypt, 1992, 120 minutes)  color, Arabic w/English subtitles

Introduced by director, Khairy Bishara
Roundtable discussion w/director:  Viola Shafik (filmmaker), Walter
Armbrust (Georgetown), Jeremiah Newton.

Khairy Bishara is taking time from shooting in Prague to attend our
filmfestival.  Bishara is considered one of the leaders in defining the
cinematic style known as Egyptian neo-realism.  The revival of the Egyptian
musical in the 1990s is in large part due to his work.  This film stars the
popular Egyptian singer Amr Diyab, who plays a young singer in search of
his musical identity.  Film critic Tarek al-Shinawy wrote that Bishara
discusses, "the problem of insincerity and penetrates deeper into the
problem of intellectual and artistic rigidity."  Bishara uses the musical
as a medium for questioning the role of the artist in post-Nasserist Egypt,
producing a startlingly entertaining film.  Nabiha Lutfy of al-Ahali wrote,
"The images are amazing and the colors dazzle the eye."  

SATURDAY, JANUARY 30, SYMPOSIUM
Cantor Film Center, 36 East 8th Avenue, room 102

10:00 - 11:30 am, panel 1:
Chair, Lila Abu-Lughod (NYU), presenters:  Lalitha Gopalan, Viola Shafik

11:30 - 1:00 pm, panel 2:
Chair, Gyan Prakash (Princeton), presenters: Walter Armbrust, Virginia
Danielson (Harvard), and Parag Amladi (Long Island University)

2:30 - 3:30 pm, panel 3:
Chair, Mona Mikhail (NYU), presenters:  Teja Ganti (NYU), Robin Dougherty
(U-Penn), and Livia Alexander (NYU)

3:30 - 5:00, general discussion: 
discussion leaders:  Peter Manuel (CUNY), Janake Bakhle (Columbia)

5:00 - 5:30 pm, concluding remarks
Ella Shohat (CUNY)

5:30 - 6:30 pm, reception, Ettinghausen Library, Kevorkian Building, 50
Washington Square S.






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