Asian Student Association: Bollywood Nite!

Come and celebrate BollywoodNite! Join us for an evening of entertainment, snacks, and drinks from the Indian subcontinent. This event is free and open to the public.

Love Per Square Foot (2 hr. 13 min., 2018), is a quirky Romantic-Comedy film directed by Anand Tiwari and produced by Ronnie Screwvala. It was written by Sumeet Vyas and Anand Tiwari. Starring Vicky Kaushal, Angira Dhar, Alankrita Sahai, Raghuvir Yadav, Ratna Pathak Shah and Supriya Pathak. Love Per Square Foot is about Sanjay and Karina who enter a marriage of convenience to buy a flat and make space for themselves, in Mumbai, the city of their dreams. In their journey to live independently and on their own terms, Sanjay Chaturvedi and Karina D'Souza are sometimes thwarted and sometimes enabled by their melodramatic families, colleagues, friends, and exes. Love Per Square Foot is a light-hearted take on the millennial aspirations of two individuals who come together to find their place in the world and stumble upon love when they least expect it. In addition to the anticipated music the opening sequence is punctuated by a rap by Divine. Anand Tiwari's representation of love in Mumbai's urban landscape is certainly worth watching.

A trailer can be found at:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGIez5mIc0U

Bollywood (the Hindi language film industry based out of Mumbai, India) along with other regional Indian cinemas constitutes the largest film industry in the world. Appealing to audiences world-wide, its distinctive genres complete with music, costumes, and growing corporate muscle have made Bollywood a source of global entertainment as well as the subject of much discussion, research and even debate. A helpful introduction to Bollywood can be found in Tejaswini Ganti, Bollywood: A Guidebook to Popular Cinema, 2nd Edition (New York: Routledge, 2013). A copy of the first edition (2004) is available at Murray Library. For those wanting to dig a little deeper, a digital archive of South Asian Popular Culture can be found at Tasveer Ghar http://www.tasveerghar.net/

See you on Tuesday, 26 of March at 6pm in Boyer 131!