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Jugaad Urbanism Film Series: Salaam Bombay! Friday, February 25, 2011, 6:30-9pm Free for AIA and CFA members, New School students and faculty, IAAC members, and SIAEA members; $10 for general admission.   Reserve a ticket SALAAM BOMBAY! - By Mira Nair, 1 hour, 50 minutes, Hindi (1988).  Q&A with Director Mira Nair to follow the screening. Shot on-location on the streets of Bombay, Mira Nair's SALAAM BOMBAY! is the gritty tale of Krishna (Shafiq Syed, a runaway discovered by Nair), a boy kicked out of his home, and abandoned by the traveling circus he had joined. In desperation, he uses the little money he has to buy a one-way ticket to the nearest city, which turns out to be Bombay. "Come back a movie star," the ticket agent tells him mockingly. In Bombay, Krishna joins a small community of street kids, and gets a job delivering tea. Soon, everyone in the downtrodden neighborhood knows him as "Chaipau" (tea boy). Krishna wants to save five hundred rupees, enough money to get back into his mother's good graces and return home. Chillum (Raghubir Yadav), a streetwise young man who deals drugs for the local kingpin, Baba (Nana Patekar), takes Krishna under his wing. The sly but cruel Baba has a mistress, Rekha (Aneeta Kanwar), who works as a prostitute. She has a young daughter, Manju (Hansa Vithal), who has a crush on Krishna, but Krishna only has eyes for the girl they call "Sweet Sixteen," a virginal teenager who is being forced into prostitution. Eventually, Baba fires the surly Chillum, and Krishna finds himself struggling to keep Chillum alive by supporting his drug habit. Many of the roles in the film are played by non-actors, including the street kids, and an actual madame who allowed Nair to film scenes in her brothel. SALAAM BOMBAY! was Nair's feature film debut with her frequent collaborator Sooni Taraporevala. It went on to win over 25 international awards, including the Camera d'Or (Golden Camera) and the Audience Awards at the 1988 Cannes Film Festival, an Academy Award Nomination, and A BAFTA nomination. Mira Nair is the rare, prolific filmmaker who fluidly moves between Hollywood and independent cinema. She has made over ten feature films, as well as short films and documentaries. A longtime activist, Nair divides her energies between filmmaking and her successful non-profit organizations. She used the profits of SALAAM BOMBAY! to create the Salaam Baalak Trust, which has directly impacted government policy on street children in India. 20 years later, the trust's 25 centers provide a safe and nurturing environment for 5000 street children annually. Next year, Ms. Nair will return to the theatre from where she started, directing a spectacular musical on Broadway based on her beloved film, MONSOON WEDDING. Her forthcoming feature will be an adaptation of Mohsin Hamid's bestselling novel, THE RELUCTANT FUNDAMENTALIST, to be filmed in New York, Pakistan and Chile in 2011. Mira Nair was born in India and educated at both Delhi University and Harvard. She currently lives in New York City and Kampala, Uganda and New Delhi, India with her husband and son. Q&A with Director Mira Nair to follow. MORE INFORMATION ON JUGAAD URBANISM On View February 10 - May 21, 2011 Set in the radically uneven urban landscapes of Delhi, Mumbai, Ahmedabad and Pune, India, Jugaad Urbanism explores how the energy of citizens "making-do" is translated by architects, urban planners, governmental and non-governmental entities into efficient and inventive strategies for sustainable urban growth. From energy generating spinning wheels to the extensive skywalks of Mumbai, the exhibition will highlight how "jugaad" interventions (a term in Hindi used to describe an innovative, resourceful approach) are challenging traditional spatial hierarchies and mechanistic planning principles. For more information, download the press release Curator: Kanu Agrawal Exhibition design and graphics: Popular Architecture and Omnivore Exhibition and related programs are organized by AIA New York in partnership with the Center for Architecture Foundation, the India China Institute at The New School, the Indo-American Arts Council (IAAC) and the Society of Indo-American Engineers and Architects (SIAEA). OTHER RELATED EVENTS Invention by Necessity: Construction Practice in India March 10, 2011, 6-8pm Contemporary Design Typologies in India: Housing, Airports and Mixed-Use Developments March 31, 2011, 6-8pm Progressive Indian Cities: Moving Towards Near-Zero Energy Development April 21, 2011, 6-8pm Designing in Context: Ideas for 21st Century Indian Cities May 7, 2011, 12-4pm EXHIBITION SUPPORT Jugaad Urbanism is supported in part by grants from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts. The exhibition is also supported by the donations of those who attended our first-ever exhibition fundraising event, the screening of the film Dharavi, Slum for Sale by Lutz Konermann. Special thanks to Umberto Dindo, Secretary of the AIA New York Chapter, Lutz Konermann, and Catherine Scharf, Head of the Cultural Department at the Consulate General of Switzerland for their generous support of this event. We are also grateful to the following sponsors for their significant contributions to the exhibition: EXHIBITION UNDERWRITER LEAD SPONSORS        SPONSORS Grapevine Merchants Society of Indo-American Engineers and Architects SUPPORTERS Bittersweet NYC CetraRuddy Kingfisher Lager FRIENDS Arup Benjamin Moore Ibex Construction Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates Perkins Eastman Skidmore, Owings & Merrill AIA New York Chapter 536 LaGuardia Pl NY, NY 10012 (212) 683-0023 info@aiany.org Gallery Hours Mon-Fri: 9am to 8pm Sat: 11am to 5pm Office Hours Mon-Fri: 9am to 5pm INDO-AMERICAN ARTS COUNCIL   Presents   Draupadi - Will my spirit live on? a Shivani Wazir Pasrich Production A play in English Roy Arias Theatre, 300 West 43rd St @ 8th Ave, NYC.   March 16-20, 2011 To purchase tickets for Draupadi – Will my spirit live on? please click on: http://www.sulekha.com/eventlistings/images/ IndoAmericanArts.html Dates & times: Opening Night: March 16th at 8 pm. Tickets: $50 gen admission; $40 IAAC members w/ID Performance, post-performance discusson, reception w/cast. March 17th at 8 pm March 18th at 8 pm March 19th at 2 pm and 8 pm March 20th at 5 pm Tickets: $35 general admission; $25 IAAC members w/ID Roy Arias Theatre, 300 West 43rd Street (between 8th & 9th), NY 10036, New York.   “Draupadi", a play in English, interweaving tales from the epic past with contemporary Indian life. The play is set to be both a poetic piece of drama and a truly dazzling affair. Some of India’s foremost names in the arts have joined together to create a wonderful spectacle, with Ritu Kumar designing costumes, Aman Nath conceptualizing the set design, Anjolie Ela Menon’s intense painting being the signature of the play, and Shubha Mudgal lending her wonderful voice to the production. The play draws attention to the roles of women in society throughout the ages, through an exploration of the dramatic and compelling figure of Draupadi herself. Synopsis of the play Centuries have gone by since the Mahabharat war, yet Draupadi is still here. Stuck between heaven and earth, roaming the streets and pondering her fate and her choices. Her only confidant is Lord Krishna. She tries to resolve with him why women must continue to suffer as she had in the past. Krishna, the orchestrator of fate, leads her to Maaya- a woman of today, who has suffered much abuse at the hands of society. A distraught Maaya attempts suicide, but Draupadi stops her and offers her help in return for a favor. Maaya treads through her life in Draupadi’s footsteps, and in the end she too must make a choice- will she choose revenge or resilience? Will she be Draupadi’s salvation? Will Krishna be able to address centuries old smoldering wounds? Re-looking once again at the most misunderstood Nayika in Indian Epics… The Indo-American Arts Council presents a Shivani Wazir Pasrich Production "DRAUPADI" Length: 90 min Support IAAC and shop the IAAC online store Follow IAAC on Facebook Follow IAAC on Twitter Check IAAC events on YouTube Become a member of IAAC Check IAAC Google Calendar Make a TAX DEDUCTIBLE donation to the IAAC !

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