‘Indian Shakespeares on Screen’ examines the full influence of Shakespeare in Indian cinema and the way in which Indian cinema has mobilized Shakespeare to raise urgent local and national concerns. The project will be launched with an international conference and exhibition at Asia House in central London (27-29 April 2016), followed by a weekend film festival at the prestigious BFI Southbank in London (29-30 April 2016) where the screening of the Indian Shakespeare trilogy - Maqbool (Macbeth), Omkara (Othello), andHaider (Hamlet) - will be accompanied by public interviews with Vishal Bhardwaj, the trilogy’s director, and the scriptwriters of the films.
The multi grant-winning project is a unique partnership between INOX Leisure (India), The British Film Institute (BFI, London), Asia House (London) and six premier academic institutions in U.K. It is the brainchild of Ms Thea Buckley (Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham), Ms Koel Chatterjee (Royal Holloway, University of London), Dr Varsha Panjwani (Boston University (London) and University of York) and Dr Preti Taneja (University of Warwick and Queen Mary, University of London) - young diaspora women scholars from diverse Indian states who are keen to introduce Indian cinematic adaptations of Shakespeare to an international audience. For conference registration or for more information about ticket bookings for the screenings and public interviews, please contact the organisers at: shakespeareandbollywood@gmail.com.
Conference and
Screening Programme 27-30th April
27 April: Day 1 at
Asia House
9:00 – 9:30: Registration and
coffee/tea
9:30 – 10:00: Opening remarks by Thea Buckley and Koel
Chatterjee
10:00 – 10:45: Plenary
[Studio]
Setting the Scene
Roundtable: Poonam Trivedi, Diana Henderson and Deana Rankin
10:45 – 11:00: Break
11:00 – 12:30: Panel 1a [Studio]
Looking for Hamlet in India
Chaired by: David Schalkwyk
From Hamlet to Haider, twenty-first century antic
dispositions (Christie Carson)
Against ‘indigenisation’: Hamlet in a modern idiom or, the politics of missing persons
(Sandra Young)
Between Chutzpah and AFSPA: To be a Kashmiri Hamlet (Madhavi Biswas)
11:00 – 12:30: Panel 1b [Library]
Bollywood Dreams
Chaired by: Diana Henderson
On Directing a Bollywoodized Midsummer Night's Dream (Kavita Mehta)
Materialist Shakespeares in Indian Indie Cinema: 10 ml Love (Varsha Panjwani)
Bollywood’s midsummer (night’s) dream: 10 ml Love and the Problem(atic) of Adaptation (Sreya Mallika
Datta, Anil Pradhan, Utsa Mukherjee)
12:30 - 13:30: Lunch break (Lunch not provided)
13:30 – 15:00: Panel 2a [Studio]
Post-colonial
renegotiations
Chaired by: Deana Rankin
Postcolonialism and Transnational Feminism in Isi Life Mein (Rosa Periago)
“The Queen, my lord,
is dead”: (post-)colonial appropriation of Macbeth
on film in India and the North of Ireland (Eilis Smyth)
Refracted modernities in Bollywood (Syed Haider)
13:30 – 15:00: Panel 2b [Library]
Bengali Shakespeares
Chaired by: Koel Chatterjee
Shakespeare and Nineteenth-Century Bengali Literature:
Patterns and Methodological Questions (Suddhaseel Sen)
Taming of
the Bard: Domesticating farce in Srimati
Bhayankari (Paromita Chakravarti)
Shakespeare and Contemporary Bengali Cinema: Intertextuality
and Mise-en-scene in Hrid Majharey,
2014 (Priyanjali Sen)
15:00 – 15:15: Coffee/ Tea [Library Annexe]
15:15 – 17:00: Panel 3 [Studio]
Keynote Panel: The
Bhardwaj Shakespeare Trilogy
Chaired by: Varsha Panjwani
Vishal Bhardwaj, Director of Maqbool, Omkara and Haider discusses
his Indian Shakespeare trilogy with his scriptwriters Abbas Tyrewala (Maqbool), Robin Bhatt (Omkara) and Basharat Peer (Haider)
28 April: Day 2 at
Asia House
9:30 – 10:00: Registration and Coffee/tea
10:00 – 10:50: Plenary
[Studio]
Chaired by: Koel Chatterjee
Jonathan Gil Harris – Shakespearean Masala
10:50 – 11:00: Break
11:00 – 12:30: Panel 4a [Studio]
Itinerant Shakespeare
Chaired by: Paromita Chakravarti
Immortal or
immoral longings? Cleopatra the poison-maid: temptation vs temporality in Kannaki (Thea Buckley)
‘Would you create me
new?’: Representations of Shakespeare’s The
Comedy of Errors in Bhrantibilas
(1963) and Angoor (1982) (Paramita
Dutta)
Shakespeare and Assamese Parallel Cinema: Politics of
Identity and Political Realism (Parthajit Baruah)
11:00 – 12:30: Panel 4b [Library]
Myth and Metaphor
Chaired by: Varsha Panjwani
Enemy Desire, Pants on Fire: Myth and Fatalism in Sanjay
Leela Bhansali’s Goliyon ki
Rasleela-Ramleela (Patricia Gruben)
Image as Text in Arshinagar:
A Bengali Experiment with Shakespeare
(Koel Chatterjee)
Lost in Lear: A Critical Reading of Rituparno Ghosh's The Last Lear (Shreyosi Mukherjee)
12:30 – 13:30: Lunch break (Lunch not provided)
13:30 – 15:00: Panel 5a [Studio]
Script Reading and
Discussion: Have the Shakespeares on Screen Forsaken Shakespeare’s love of
Science?
Chaired by: Thea Buckley
Carole Jahme, RSC fellow and winner of the 2012 Science and
Technology Facilities Council Award for public engagement enacts scenes from The Merry Wives of Munnar and leads a
panel on Science, Shakespeare and India
13:30 – 15:00: Panel 5b [Library]
Talk: The Hungry, a contemporary re-telling of
Titus Andronicus, presented by Film London
Chaired by Preti Taneja, with a Q&A chaired by Film
London Head of Talent Development and Production, Deborah Sathe.
15:00 – 15:15: Coffee/Tea [Library Annexe]
15:15 – 17:45: Panel 6 [Studio] (Exclusive: for conference
delegates only)
Introduced by Koel Chatterjee
Screening of Arshinagar
(2015), an adaptation of Romeo and
Juliet (Bengali, with subtitles)
Dir. Aparna Sen, starring Dev, Rittika Sen, Jisshu Sengupta,
Kaushik Sen, Waheeda Rehman, Kamaleshwar Mukherjee, Roopa Ganguly, Jaya Seal
Ghosh
17:45: Drinks Reception
29 April: Day 3 at
Asia House
9:00 – 9:30: Coffee/tea
9:30 – 10:30: Plenary
[Studio]
Chaired by: Preti Taneja
Mark Thornton Burnett - Gendered Play and Regional Dialogue
in Nanjundi Kalyana
10:30 – 10:40: Break
10:40 – 12:40: Panel 7a [Studio]
Gendered Shakespeare
Chaired by: Poonam Trivedi
Dil Bole Hadippa and
Gender Politics (Bob White)
Untold Spices: The Secrets of Dedh Ishquiya (Madhavi Menon)
Queer Bollywood Shakespeare (Amritesh Singh)
Make ‘em Laugh : When Shakespeare Meets Bollywood;
Shakespeare Adaptations in Bollywood and Gender Dynamics (Aysha Iqbal)
10:40 – 12:40: Panel 7b [Library]
Selling Shakespeare
in the West and the East
Chaired by: Deana Rankin
From Melodrama to Tragedy and Back – Closing the
Melodramatic Gap between East and West in Shakespeare Film Adaptations (Kinga
Földváry)
Romeo and Juliet
between Hollywood and Bollywood: Bhansali’s 2013 Ram-Leela (Florence Cabaret and Sylvaine Bataille)
‘Naina thag lenge’ — Gulzar’s ocular poetics in Omkara (Shani Bans)
Interpreting the Idiom of Loss: From the mythical heath to
borders and signs.
Revisiting King Lear in the contemporary framework of Life Goes On.
(Sangeeta Datta)
12:40 – 13:30: Lunch break (Lunch not provided)
13:30 – 16:00: Panel 8 [Studio]
Introduced by Thea Buckley
Screening of Kaliyattam
(1997), an adaptation of Othello
Dir. Jayaraj, starring Suresh Gopi, Lal, Manju Warrier, and
Biju Menon.
16:00 – 16:30: Closing remarks by Preti Taneja and Varsha
Panjwani
SPECIAL SCREENINGS: BFI
Southbank
18:50 – 21:08 Maqbool
(133 mins) Introduced by Koel Chatterjee
21:08 – 21:53 Post
Screening Q+A: Director Vishal Bhardwaj and Scriptwriter Abbas Tyrewala in
conversation with Thea Buckley.
Sat 30 April: Day 4
SPECIAL SCREENINGS:
BFI SOUTHBANK
14:00 – 16:35: Omkara (150
mins) Introduced by Koel Chatterjee
16:35 – 17:25: Post
Screening Q+A: Director Vishal Bhardwaj and Scriptwriter Robin Bhatt in
conversation with Dr. Varsha Panjwani.
18:40 – 19:25: Introduction to Haider
by Koel Chatterjee followed by Pre
Screening Q+A: Director Vishal Bhardwaj and Scriptwriter Basharat Peer in
conversation with Dr. Preti Taneja.
19:25 - 22:04: Haider
(159 mins)
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