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Interactive Workshops with Students:
Visual History
Theme: Images, Lyrics and Song Picturisation
19 - 22 December, 1998 |
Songs form a major part of Indian Films. Popular cinema is structured
around religious songs, lullabies, songs on family relationships,
philosophical songs, tragic songs on various situations of life
and love songs. These songs have become very much a part of
our daily life. Hindi cinema has existed for many years now
and over the years the song situations, the locations, the lyrics,
the tune and the pace and presentation of the songs have changed.
The way a song looks at objects, places and people, specially
women, has undergone a lot of changes. This film-viewing workshop
was organized to perceive these changes and understand them
for what they are. Young people normally see films for entertainment
and do not have the time to view them from a historical perspective.
This workshop provided them an opportunity to see and listen
to Hindi film songs from the Black and White era to the present
times in ways in which they normally are not able to do. Film-makers
Madan Bawaria and Vishnu Mathur initiated the discussion with
High School and college students.
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