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Reading city through cinema
SK. INTEKHAB ALAM
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CITIES AND CINEMA
THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK
The association to a city through daily experiences is true for the inhabitants of the city as shown through various forms of media; cinema, books, television, newspapers, advertisements, billboards, etc, have the strongest impact on people’s mind.
Aim Understanding Cinema and the city and the relation between both.Objective: To analyze and comprehend the image ability of a city through the lens of cinema.
Need1.Visual communication has the strongest impact on the minds of people.2.Access of wider cross section of people and the popularity of cinema in India.3.Provides a mediating pedagogy between the reality of the metropolis and its imaginary place in mental life.
Primary Case Study: New Delhi Secondary Case Study: Mumbai (Bombay)
Source :Cinema as a tool for structuring the city of Mumbai Divya Vishwanathan, Department of Urban Design, 2009, Thesis
PORTRAYAL OF THE CITY
IMAGIBLITY
URBAN ISSUES
TRANSFORMATION OF URBAN SPACES AND CINEMA OVER FOUR DECADE
The films selected were all produced between 1968 and 2014. They represent a variety of genres (drama, thriller, romantic comedy, docudrama, etc.), but are consistently effective in their depiction of cities and the manners in which people inhabit them. As are all the films shown in urban design studio, they were selected for reasons: they were shot primarily, if not entirely on location they portray people actively engaged in claiming and using urban space,
INTRODUCTIONAn outsider to the city perceives a city through medium that represents them. Among all forms of media the idea of city as represented through cinema especially popular cinema influences and shapes peoples imagination of a ‘city’. most.
1.MAPPING As a medium of representation it allows a person to move through the city where there is a limitation in other medium.a.Cultureb.Buildingc.Cityscaped.Transportatione.Urban form
2.STUDY AND ANALYSIS OF ALL THE ASPECTS MAPPED
3.IMAGINATING CITYSCAPES AND ENVIRONMENTThe intersection of physical, social and mental space gives rise to the imagined city. Cinema has allowed one to imagine cities.
Background into Foreground: Film as a Medium for Teaching Urban Design by Roy Strickland
PRIMARY CASE STUDY DELHI
1970-1980 Maasoom1980-1990 Chashme buddor ,Special 261990-2000 Dil se 2000-2010 Oye Lucky lucky oye, Rang de basanti2010-2014 Vickhy donor, Rockstar, Delhi-Belly
Refugee colonyYouth centricGreen CapitalMonumentsFarm House PatriotismMedia CityDemocracyPowerSecularismRebellious natureFreedom of expressionProtestPedestrian Vs VehicularUnauthorized coloniesGourmetFlyoversMetroHigh Class society
Building up of a national capital
Era of Habib Rehman
And Raj Rewal
City designed for Vehicles Wider road
Monuments
Green Capital
1970
-198
0
Wider road
City for vehicles
Monuments
Old city
Youth centric
Green Capital
1980
-199
0
Migration
Politics
Power
Democracy
Green Capital
1990
-200
0
Refugee colony
Relation of metro rail
Flyover
BRT Corridor
Bengali Colony
Street side hawker
Gourmet
1984 riot
Secular spaces
Green Capital
1980
-199
0
Unauthorized colonies
Urban villages
Youth
Parking issues
Society
2000
-201
0
Youth
Power
Political city
Defense
Secular state
Democracy
Media city
Education city
Protest
Historic city
2000
-201
0
Youth
Media city
Education city
Protest
Historical city
Sufism
Unauthorized colony
2000
-201
4
Youth culture
Flyover
Old city condition
Rental chaos
Traffic congestion
Old city vs new city
CASE STUDYMUMBAI
The research aims to explore the landscape of Bombay through cinema from the 1970s to the present and to identify elements or themes that are employed by the cinema to paint an (realistic or otherwise) image of the city. The selected movies are the biggest hits or trend-setters of Hindi cinema that have Bombay (Mumbai) as the backdrop for the narrative. The chapter will help in recognizing the vocabulary of the cinematic city of Bombay (Mumbai).
1970-1980 Anand, 1980-1990 Salim Langde pe mat ro, 1990-2000 Satya2000-2010 Slumdog millionaire, Sathiya 2010-2014 Dhobi Ghat,
Industrial cityCity of extremesSurvivalUrban migrationUnderworldRelation to the seaSkylineFinancial CapitalConcept of ChawlDharavi (Slum)City of dreamsTrafickingRiot24 X 7 cityGlobal cityImpact of colonialism
1970
-198
0
1970
-198
0
Old city condition
Impact of colonial
Past
Old Mumbai
First Urban City of India
Economic Capital
City of dreams
The film is set in the period of the Hindutva mobilization of the 1980s, the consequent explosive communal conflict, and its impact on the lives of the young men of the minority Muslim community, represented by a working class Muslim family in Mumbai. Salim Pasha (Langda or Lame) is a small-time thief and goonda and lives with his parents and sister in a shady neighborhood where crime and illegal activities are accepted professions.
1980
-199
0
Effect of mills on the life of people
Muslim spaces
Gentrification
Ghetto Population
Unemployment
Relation of industry and the city
Riot
Satya 1998, The first film of the Indian Gangster Trilogy, tells the story of Satya, an immigrant who comes to Mumbai seeking his fortune but instead gets sucked into the Mumbai underworld.
1990
-200
0
Importance of Festivals
Chawls
Urbanscape
Relation to the sea
Underworld
2000
-201
0
Dependency on local train
Relation of the city to the city network
Importance of local train in the city
Rental chaos
Youth
2010-2014
Survival
Living condition (slum)
Trafficking
Real estate
Migration
Riot
City of extremes
City of dreams
Underworld
2010
-201
4
Urban migration
Muslim spaces
City of dream
Influence of Bollywood
Importance of monsoon
City that never sleeps
Multiple job profile
Relation of city and seaSurvival
PEOPLE
CONCLUSION1. Provide an international survey of cities that enables both comparison and contrast of urban form and social life. 2. They depict cities from the metropolitan to the building scales, clarifying the relationships among the constituentparts of urbanism.
3. The image formed by cinema can be both hypothetical and real, so it is becoming important that utmost care should be taken when portraying a city in time.
4. Give hints to the transformation happened over the year to better understand the urban morphology.
5. Provide a rich resource to a glimpse of the spatial, cultural, economical, social, political aspect of a city
6. Helps in formulating/change the collective image ability of a city.
7. Highlights urban issues in a more entertaining way as compared to other mediums
8. Create a sense of belongingness to the city
9. Help archive a city.
10. An alternative virtual image of both the cities have been formed through these movies.