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Dr. Vinay Lal

Dr. Vinay Lal

Dr. Vinay Lal teaches history at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and is Director of the University of California Education Abroad Program (India), 2007-09. His nine books include Empire of Knowledge: Culture and Plurality in the Global Economy (Pluto Press, 2002); The History of History: Politics and Scholarship in Modern India (Oxford, 2003); Of Cricket, Guinness and Gandhi: Essays on Indian History and Culture (Penguin, 2005); and, co-edited with Ashis Nandy, The Future of Knowledge and Culture: A Dictionary for the Twenty-first Century (Viking Penguin, 2005). His most recent book is The Other Indians: A Political and Cultural History of South Asians in America (HarperCollins, 2008).
P K Nair

P K Nair

Founder Director National Film Archive of India, Pune. Film historian, Film critic, Film Teacher, Film Festival Consultant and a Film Archivist of international repute. The chief architect behind the NFAI (National Film Archive of India), for nearly three decades, right from its inception in the mid sixties, first as Assistant Curator, then Curator and finally as the Director “PK”, as he is fondly known among FIAF (International Federation of Film Archive) colleagues, and as Nairsaab among FTII graduates, Mr. Nair did pioneering work in the field of film preservation, documentation and dissemination of film culture in the world’s largest film producing country. He is largely responsible for developing the NFAI, Pune, virtually from scratch to an institution of international reckoning. As the first Asian member of FIAF’s Executive committee for three consecutive terms he could bring to the notice of the International Archive community, how to come to grips with the problems of film preservation in a tropical climate like India, by indigenous means and with limited resources. Did serve as Chairman / member of several national and International Film Festival Juries . Written extensively on Indian and world cinema and guided several Indian and foreign scholars on research projects pertaining to Indian Cinema. Continue to be actively involved in designing film courses and developing indigenous training methodologies for the spread of film literacy and media awareness in the subcontinent, as well as promotion of Indian film studies abroad. At present he is engaged as a consultant for preparing the concept paper and project report for setting up a Museum of Moving Images (MOMI) at Films Division, Bombay for the Govt of India.
Vidyarthy Chatterjee

Vidyarthy Chatterjee

Vidyarthy Da, (born 1948, Jamshedpur, India) as film society activists fondly call him, studied history and political science in Calcutta’s historic Presidency College where his interest in cinema as an art form and a vehicle of social investigation was born. For more than three decades he has written on documentary and drama for leading Indian publications, notably The Statesman (Calcutta/Delhi) and The Economic Times (Delhi, Mumbai, Calcutta). In the past few years he has been conducting appreciation courses for budding film lovers. He has edited Motif (established 1973), a respected avant garde journal devoted to public affairs, film and allied arts for more than two decades. He has served on juries at Bombay (MIFF), Zanzibar international film festivals and IDFA, Amsterdam. He was invited to participate in film festivals at Dhaka, Mannheim and Rotterdam. He is currently researching for a book on Anand Patwardhan, India’s best known and most respected documentary filmmaker.
Jugu Abraham

Jugu Abraham

Jugu Abraham is a senior film critic. He has been working with UN organizations for over 20 years as a resource mobilization specialist for international non-profit agricultural research. He was earlier a film critic with the Hindustan Times Group, New Delhi, from 1978 to 1985, and continues to write from time to time on good quality international cinema. He has traveled to some 50 countries. He has interviewed directors like Miklos Jansco, Zoltan Fabri, Roman Polanski, Lindsay Anderson, Peter Brooks, Istvan Gaal, Margarethe von Trotta, Nagisa Oshima and Shohei Imamura among others.
Bhawana Somaaya

Bhawana Somaaya

Bhawana Somaaya began her career in journalism in the late 70’s while studying for her BA degree in Psychology. Commencing with Free Press Journal’s Cinema Journal as chief reporter, she moved to Super as a special correspondent while completing LLB at the Government Law College, Mumbai. In ’81 she joined Movie as an assistant editor and was promoted in ’85 as its joint editor. In ’89 Chitralekha asked her to launch their first English publication g and in 2000 she joined as editor Screen film weekly of the Indian Express group. She is the recipient of several prestigious awards and has contributed columns to Sunday Observer, Afternoon, Janmabhoomi, Pravasi, Hindustan times, The Hindu, The Pioneer and Newstime. She has written six books, Amitabh Bachchan- The Legend, Salaam Bollywood, Take-25, The Story So Far, Cinema: Images and Issues , Hema Malini-The Authorised Biography and Fragmented Frames. Krishna- the God who lived as Man is Bhawana’s eigthth book with two more in the pipeline.
M. K. Raghavendra

M. K. Raghavendra

M. K. Raghavendra received the National Award for Best Film Critic in 1997. He is the author of Seduced by the Familiar: Narration and Meaning in Indian Popular Cinema (Oxford, 2008). He is the founder-editor of the web journal Phalanx (www.phalanx.in) and he has written on international cinema for web sites like www.jacques-rivette.com. He is particularly fond of film noir, David Cronenberg and French cinema.