Roopantar Adapting Theatre for Cinema : Screenings with Amrit Gangar July 16, 2009

Roopantar Adapting Theatre for Cinema . Thematic Screenings with Amrit Gangar. Amrit Gangar is a Mumbai-based author, curator and short filmmaker who had put together a seven-part interactive series, Saat Sarjak Saat Samvaad, hosted by the NCPA in 2008. He has curated several retrospectives for the Mumbai International Film Festival for Documentary, Short & Animation Films and served on numerous national and international festival juries. In 2006, he presented a curatorial programme at the Tate Modern, London, based on his concept of the Cinema of Prayoga. Amrit Gangar, will explore the relationship between theatre and cinema by focusing on how the transition from stage to film is effected through selected plays and their corresponding film adaptations.

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