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July 24 - July 24, 2010

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992 Valencia Street San Francisco, CA 94110
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The Bard in Bollywood: Shakespeare Re-invented
3rd i Film’s Speaker Series is pleased to present: THE BARD IN BOLLYWOOD: SHAKESPEARE RE-INVENTED A presentation, illustrated with film clips, by Gitanjali Shahani When: Saturday, July 24, 2010 @ 7pm Where: Artists’ Television Access (992 Valencia Street, SF) Tickets: $8-$10 at the door From Merchant-Ivory’s 'Shakespeare Wallah' to Vishal Bharadwaj recent adaptations of 'Macbeth' (Maqbool) and 'Othello' (Omkara), Shakespeare has been re-imagined and re-invoked through a number of Bollywood films – even through the item numbers, song and dance interludes and fight sequences! Gitanjali Shahani, Assistant Professor of English at SFSU, takes us on a journey to discover the many manifestations, adaptations, and appropriations of Shakespeare in popular Hindi cinema.