Cinema Chalo

The concept of the show is most clear in Chopra8217;s mind and he dwells on it at length. 8220;Art and cinema have had parallel linkages. Both are visual mediums with cinema being sequential, complicated and more democratic medium. But what amazed me was the similarity in concerns in India, right from the freedom movement to the peasants8217; struggle and the women8217;s movement. When artists painted against communal forces, there came films like Sathyu8217;s Garam Hava and Nihalani8217;s Tamas.8221;

Artists have been film-makers too. Take the instance of the pioneer Baburao Painter of Maharashtra and the all-time great Satyajit Ray of Bengal. To Chopra the coming together of the two parallel mediums is an effort to reawaken the democratic forces. 8220;The show endeavors to do on a wider scale what Husain has done with the films of Ray,8221; adds Chopra.