Mad Woman in the Attic

What began as a mere observance, and then nostalgia for the films that I watched in my childhood, the good old VCR days, led to curiosity to inquisitiveness, and I began searching for ways to quench that thirst, to connect the threads that I had left behind. The first impressions of the place reminded me of 80s, the time I began to see the world for the first time. While the world around has changed, things seem to be on a stand-still here; it looks like a microcosm of any North Indian space, a construct that I belong to. What began as a means to understand the buildings, architecture, films, halls, became an effort to understand myself in newer contexts, to understand my extended family members, to understand the space and construct that I come from. The issues broadly focused were: · The history of the neighbourhood and the cinema halls · The economics in and around the cinema halls · How films get continually rearticulated within specific historical conj...