Now Showing: Cinema India

National Centre for Performing Arts’ (NCPA) Little Theatre as part of its collaboration with Filmindia Worldwide,a company run by renowned film curator Uma Da Cunha.

Deepa Gahlot,Head of Programming (Theatre and Film) at NCPA,explains that this collaboration is aimed at bringing under spotlight films made by Indians and/or with India as a setting. “Da Cunha has been curating a package of such Indian content-driven films for every edition of the Mumbai Film Festival. But I don’t see why we should screen these movies for just the people in the festival circuit. This line of thought made us collaborate with Filmindia Worldwide and now we would be showing these films every third Friday of the month,” says Gahlot.

The storyline for Delhi in a Day is simple: when the money of a British traveller disappears in a nouveau-riche household in a Delhi neighbourhood,the staff is given 24 hours to replace it or face the consequences. Director Prashant Nair notes that he was prompted to feature the Capital’s nouveau riche because the community fascinated him deeply. “There is a certain swagger,a certain lifestyle that it has come to represent. I felt that this set,juxtaposed with the city’s poor,deserved my attention,” says Nair.