Jaideep Varma: Film Screenings

Toto Funds the Arts

with The Department of Communication Studies, 

Mount Carmel College (Autonomous)

is proud to present the fourth edition of

‘New Voices in Indian Cinema’

with a screening and discussion of four films by Jaideep Varma

Baavra Mann, Leaving Home, I Am Offended & Hulla 

Dates: Saturday, 8 August & Sunday, 9 August 2015

Time: 10.30 a.m. and 2.30 p.m. on both days

Venue: Diamond Jubilee Auditorium, Mount Carmel College,

58, Palace Road, Vasanthanagar, Bengaluru 560 052

Entry Free! 

Programme

8 August, Saturday, 10.30 a.m.

I Am Offended!  (102 minutes) 

8 August, Saturday, 2.30 p.m.

Baavra Mann – a film on Sudhir Mishra & Other Indian Realities (127 minutes)

9 August, Sunday, 10.30 a.m. 

Leaving Home – The Life and Music of Indian Ocean (115 minutes)

9 August, Sunday, 2.30 p.m.

Hulla (107 minutes)

The screenings will be followed by an interaction with the director, Jaideep Varma.

Jaideep Varma, who worked in advertising till 2000, has directed 3 full-length documentary films—on music, cinema and standup comedy. His ‘Leaving Home – the Life & Music of Indian Ocean’ won the National Award in 2011. He also wrote and directed a fiction film ‘Hulla’ in 2008. He is the creator of Impact Index, the best analytics system in cricket today in the world, now a part of Wisden India. He published his novel ‘Local’ in 2005.

ABOUT THE FILMS 

I AM OFFENDED! (2014) 

A documentary feature about standup comedy in India in the overall context of humour and the culture of offence.

BAAVRA MANN (2013)

A documentary feature on the life and work of filmmaker Sudhir Mishra. Through this prism the filmmaker examines the declining creative and cultural scene in India. 

LEAVING HOME (2010) 

A documentary featuring one of India’s most significant music bands, Indian Ocean. It showcases their music and tells their remarkable story of overcoming the odds without compromising their integrity.

HULLA (2008)

A Hindi fiction feature film, an energetic black comedy centred on the subject of private space.

Creative Journeys 6: Susmit Sen

Toto Funds the Arts 

& 

St. Joseph’s College of Arts and Science,

Bangalore

present 

Creative Journeys 6

Susmit Sen 

(talk + live performance)

Friday 19 June 2015 || 6.30 pm

Venue: The Main Auditorium

St. Joseph’s College of Arts and Sciences

36 Langford Road, Langford Gardens, Bangalore 27

Susmit Sen, founder and lead guitarist of India’s longest running band Indian Ocean, has had an illustrious career spanning more than two decades. He has created a sound that is uniquely his own, with his avant garde style of guitar-playing influenced by jazz, rock and Hindustani classical music. Following his long innings with Indian Ocean he embarked on a solo career, collaborating with artists from around the globe and performing in over 1,000 concerts across five continents, besides bringing out albums and travelling with his ensemble, Susmit Sen Chronicles. In his talk interspersed with his guitar-playing, Sen will trace the trajectory of his journey, describing what sparked off his passion for music and who his major influences were, and sharing anecdotes from his personal and professional life.

This is the sixth talk in Toto Funds the Arts’  Creative Journeys Lecture Series, which provides a platform for both younger and more experienced writers, filmmakers, performing artists and visual artists to speak about the influences, impulses, processes and thinking that have shaped the art they produce.

Previous speakers in this series have been painter and poet Gieve Patel, visual artist Jitish Kallat, theatre director Sunil Shanbag, choreographer and dancer Surupa Sen & novelist and poet Sampurna Chattarji.