Bollywood Night
Journey through the glory days of Bollywood, when Pramila, Sulochana, Nadira and other Jewish stars and scriptwriters dominated silver screens across India. Kenneth X. Robbins, author of a multi-volume history of the Jews of India and the curator of ASF’s Baghdadis & the Bene Israel in Bollywood & Beyond exhibition, will present an interactive lecture
Beqassor
In this Bollywood classic featuring musical interludes, Pramila (aka Esther Abraham), a Baghdadi Jewish star and the First Miss India (1947), plays a young, naïve girl caught in the cross-fire of a deep-rooted sibling rivalry between her upright husband and her scheming brother-in-law. The brother-in-law exploits the girl’s trusting nature to falsely implicate her husband in a corruption case, and turns husband against wife by wrongly defaming her character.
K. Amaranth
K. Amarnath (1 Dec 1914 – 14 May 1983) was an Indian film producer and director whose career spanned over four decades in the film industry. He produced/directed more than 40 movies. A very versatile man, he not only produced and directed movies, but also wrote the story & screenplay of many of his movies. Over the course of his career, the genres of the movies he directed ranged from action/suspense thrillers to family/social drama, legendary romantic tragedies, semi-musicals, costume drama to magical/fantasy movies.