Picture Toh Abhi Baaki Hain: Capturing India’s Single-Screen Cinemas (Part 2)

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The Talk in The Town

Nagrika

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The Talk in The Town gathers perspectives of small city actors on the relationship between citizens and policies, how this relationship can be made stronger, and how citizens can inform policy making.

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Picture Toh Abhi Baaki Hain: Capturing India’s Single-Screen Cinemas (Part 2)

The Talk in The Town

53 minutes 33 seconds

1 year ago

Picture Toh Abhi Baaki Hain: Capturing India’s Single-Screen Cinemas (Part 2)

On episode 7 of Season 3 of our podcast "Talk in the Town", we spoke to Hemant Chaturvedi, former Bollywood cinematographer turned documentary photographer, on a mission to document & preserve Indian cities’ vanishing cultural heritage: the single-screen cinema theatres.Since 2019, Chaturvedi has traveled over 50,000 km across 22 states, visiting over 950 towns to photograph over 1,150 of these architectural & cultural icons before they are lost forever to multiplexes & urban development.

Part 2 talks about the socio-economic and cultural underpinnings of what it means for such urban heritage to fade into oblivion.

Click here to listen to part 1 of the conversation. Part 1 of this Podcast talks about Mr. Chaturvedi’s personal journey of breaking into & away from Bollywood to eventually produce one of the most essential stories of India’s urban transformation.