Film Screening: ‘Chaityabhumi’

Thursday 2nd November, 2023

6:00 pm, Hitchcock Cinema, ArtsOne Building, QMUL Mile End Campus

The QMUL South Asia Forum is pleased to welcome the filmmaker Somnath Waghmare for a screening and discussion of his new documentary, Chaityabhumi (2023).

Every year, from 1-6 December, millions of Dalit-Bahujan arrive in Dadar, Mumbai, to pay tribute to Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar, the great anti-caste leader. Following Ambedkar’s death on 6 December 1956, his followers built a Buddhist Chaitya in Dadar. The commemoration of his death is, however, met with disdain by the city’s media and elite Mumbaikars. Waghmare’s documentary explores the tensions of caste and public space in Mumbai as well as Ambedkar’s legacy in India today.

Please Register at tinyurl.com/QMChaityabhumi 

Somnath Waghmare is a filmmaker based in Maharashtra. The event will be chaired by Amit Rai, Reader in Creative Industries and Arts Organisation, School of Business and Management, QMUL.

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