Pulling from the museum’s collection of more than 1,000 film prints from India, the Dryden features some of the best-loved Bollywood films of the last twenty-five years once a month throughout the Spring semester. Featuring stars such as Shah Rukh Khan, Preity Zinta, Rani Mukerji, Amitabh Bachchan, Saif Ali Khan, Kareena Kapoor, and Shahid Kapoor, and directors including Imtiaz Ali, Ashutosh Gowariker, and Yash Chopra, come experience the best of Bollywood the way it was meant to be seen—on the big screen!
Dates and Titles:
January 31 (2 p.m.): Omkara (Vishal Bhardwaj, India 2006, 155 min., 35mm, Hindi with English subtitles)
February 28 (2 p.m.): Swades: We, the People (Ashutosh Gowariker, India 2004, 189 min., 35mm, Hindi with English subtitles))
March 28 (2 p.m.): Veer-Zaara (Yash Chopra, India 2004, 192 min., 35mm, Hindi with English subtitles)
April 18 (2 p.m.): Jab We Met (Imtiaz Ali, India 2007, 142 min., 35mm, Hindi with English subtitles)
Events in this Series
Veer-Zaara (35mm)
Film Fest Shah Rukh Khan re-unites nearly a decade later with Aditya Chopra, the writer-director of his breakout hit Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge, in this epic cross-national romance. Veer (Khan) is an Indian air force pilot. Zaara (Preity Zinta) is a wealthy Pakistani traveling to India to spread her nanny’s ashes.
Swades: We, the People (35mm)
Filmi Fest After the immense commercial and critical success of his historical drama Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India, producer/writer/director Ashutosh Gowariker decided to tackle a pressing contemporary issue — and do so in a slightly more contemplative way.
Omkara (35mm)
Filmi Fest In this Bollywood crime drama, Shakespeare’s Othello is transposed into contemporary rural India. Bhardwaj, already famous for adapting Macbeth with Maqbool, presents a faithful rendition of Othello’s original narrative in this second adaptation.