City and Cinema by Basavraj Biradar

The City has been of great interest to cinema since the beginning. After all, it was the industrial city which invented cinema technology. While city life was prevalent in the west from the early 20th century, it is still hard to call urban life the most common experience in India.

The confusion the dichotomy, chaos and dialectic of the Indian urban experience, influenced by the ever changing cultural and political discourses, have inspired the cinematic representation of the Indian city in cinema.

Basavraj Biradar talks about the various representations of the Indian city and traces the evolution of the cinematic Indian city. He is an independent researcher, writer, journalist, theatre director and documentary filmmaker based in Bengaluru

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