“Chaturanga (Four Chapters)” Film Screening | USC, Los Angeles, CA |December 4 | (FREE)

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The USC School of Cinematic Arts and ZDC presents

A special screening of Chaturanga (Four Chapters)

Followed by Q & A with director Suman Mukhopadhyay

3:45PM on Thursday, December 4, 2008

Leavey Library Auditorium
University of Southern California
651 West 35th Street, Los Angeles, CA 90089-2571

The screening will be preceded by a reception at 3:00PM in the lobby of the George Lucas Building, 850 W. 34th St., Los Angeles, CA 90007.

Free to the public, open to all.

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

3:00 PM: Reception at the George Lucas Building, in presence of the director.
3:45 PM: Screening of the film at Leavey Library Auditorium.
6:00 PM: Q&A with director Suman Mukhoadhyay.

ABOUT THE DIRECTOR

At a time when Indian cinema is almost synonymous with global Bollywood, Bengali director Suman Mukhopadhyay made his remarkable debut with Herbert (2005), an adaptation of the award winning novel by Nabarun Bhattacharya. The film combined international cinematic sensibility with colloquial specificities of twenty first century Kolkata (Calcutta), exploring the world of its cognitively challenged protagonist. Owing to its anti-establishment political views the film was briefly banned, but subsequently won the National Award along with numerous international accolades. Recipient of “West Bengal State Theatre Academy Award for Best Direction” in 2000, Suman Mukhopadhyay had a successful career as a theatre director before his cinematic venture. Chaturanga (Four Chapters) is his second feature. For more information about the director, visit http://www.sumanmukhopadhyay.com/
ABOUT CHATURANGA (2008)

In the director’s own words:

Chaturanga is the story of a love that is caught between conflicting worlds of ideas. The lead protagonist Sachish fleets from radical positivism to religious mysticism in his quest for life’s meaning. However, his search ultimately yields nothing but crushing disillusionment. This is because he cannot square his abstract ideals with the powerful presences of two women in his life. One of them is Damini, a young Hindu widow, and the other is Nanibala, the abandoned mistress of Sachish’s own brother…Set in Colonial Bengal at the turn of the twentieth century, the film weaves a rich tapestry of crisscrossing desires and moralities. The film is adapted from a novel by the Nobel Prize winning author Rabindranath Tagore.
Directed by Suman Mukhopadhyay, 125 minutes, Country: India, Language: Bengali (with English subtitles).

The film will be projected from a DVD.

For more information about the film, visit www.chaturangathefilm.in
ABOUT PARKING

The George Lucas Building is located at 850 W. 34th St., Los Angeles, CA 90007. Parking passes may be purchased for $8.00 at USC Entrance Gate #5, located at the intersection of W. Jefferson Blvd. & McClintock Avenue. We recommend parking in outdoor Lot M or V, or Parking Structure D, at the far end of 34th Street. Please note that Parking Structure D cannot accommodate tall vehicles such as SUVs.

For a map of the USC campus, please access the following website: http://www.usc.edu/assets/maps/upc_map.pdf

Contact Information:

Sourav Roychowdhury
sourav_rc@hotmail.com

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