Cinema City at the NGMA

more than two years after the preview show at the berlinale in 2010, cinema city now opened at the ngma on saturday. the response was beyond all that we expected. over 600 people thronging the unusual spaces of the ngma- and everything looked very good. on the ground floor the large table of miscellany with 'cinema city lived' and the 'atlas' along with other paraphernalia; apurva's interactive censorship toy, kausik's bioscope and the beginning of the calendar project. the first floor has pushpamala's second version of the phantom lady along with the first of paro's telephone sound installation; the next floor is made of atuls journey from ghatkopar to cst every day of art school in the form of station signs with villains on them along with paro's phone booth. then it is anant joshi's mad whirling toyscape skyline. on the landings some more calendars and paro's third pco. The dome is gorgeous right now with the enormous pipeline by the design cell looking stunning, shreyas' strange objects from a possible future cinema city and archana's playful back projection bicycle.

please do go see!

strand cinema: before and after

the once lovely strand cinema in colaba transforms into curtain wall anonymity. i remember the whimsical front facade with its circular openings. i stole a 'before' photo from the net. 

cinema city at ftii, pune

cinema city arrived in pune with a two day exhibition at studio 5 in ftii. some of the older material in a new form and one new tower of crates with stories of studios and theaters projected on it. the package be complete without a panel discussion and film screenings?

adarsh nagar being demolished

and new film city disappears.

where will it reappear?

street shots: lokhanwala market corner and new pumping station at haji ali

film center, tardeo

photo post - santosh nagar / dindoshi

on the edge of the national park / film city- displaced slum dwellers and glittering office buildings. what is the real edge of the park? does anyone know? does anyone care?

photo post - andheri link road