Tuesday, October 24, 2017

The small town film fans challenging India's anthem order

"It was very well received by the audience,

as most of our movies are," Anoop Kumaran of the eponymous Kodungallur Film Society, one of Kerala's 60-odd film clubs, told me.
For the past six years, the club's Friday evening rooftop cinema show has enthralled cine-goers in the historical town of Kodungallur, home to India's first mosque, among other things. The audience is an unusual collection of cineastes - students, teachers, traders, writers, lawyers, engineers, daily wage workers. Many of them are among the 47-year-old club's 175 paid-up members.