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For decades, this little gem's circulation remained almost exclusively limited
to the institution it was conceived, set and filmed in: the School of Planning
and Architecture in Delhi, which Arundhati Roy - who wrote the screenplay, is
credited with production design, and appears prominently in the role of Radha -
attended in the 1980s, and where in the 1990s a tradition was established to
welcome first semester students with viewings of a second-generation VHS copy
of the film (taped from national television, where it ran exactly once) - not
only in order to increase their appreciation for the utopian dimensions of both
urban planning and architecture, but also to share, promote, or at least
commemorate, a no less utopian vision of student life in India. As you're going
to see, the worn-out colors of our own copy match the overall vibe of the film
rather well: Set in 1974 and accompanied by quite a bit of unlicensed Western
music from the period, it's a downtempo yet funky, firmly softcore feminist
and, by Indian standards, surprisingly funny affair - not the long-lost Indian
architecture school pinku, but maybe something even better, for which, in the
history of Asian cinema, no distinct genre label has ever been established. The
claim that the film had acquired "cult status", occasionally repeated on rather
obscure cinema blogs, is mostly unfounded, but it is true that, 30 years after
its original release, "In Which Annie Gives It Those Ones" is halfway famous
for the appearance of a young Shah Rukh Khan, and a young Shuddhabrata Sengupta.
1988 turned out to be not the worst year in Indian cinema, so that's where we're
going to continue next week. And as always: you're welcome to bring blank media!
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Sunday
August 19
from 9 pm
In Which Annie Gives It Those Ones
Pradip Krishen & Arundhati Roy
1988, 108 min
https://0xdb.org/0233926
https://indiancine.ma/AKBX
https://piratecinema.org/trailers/s07e13.mp4
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Pirate Cinema Berlin
U Kottbusser Tor
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