Following on from their Autumn Hindi film season, themed on ‘The Golden Age of Indian Cinema’, there is news on the Channel 4 website of their Spring season of Hindi films:
“…there is a brief season of Indian films celebrating the 50th anniversary of release in 1960. Jis Desh Main Ganga Behti Hai, Chaudhvin Ka Chand, Barsaat Ki Raat and Parakh show the wide variety of cinematic styles that the masters of Indian film Raj Kapoor, Guru Dutt, PL Santoshi and Bimal Roy brought to the screen.”
The season starts late on Sunday May 2nd (actually Monday morning, 3rd May) at 00.30am, with Chaudhvin Ka Chand, followed on Tuesday 4th May at 00.45am by Jis Desh Main Ganga Behti Hai.
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