{"id":1001,"date":"2023-10-19T10:59:06","date_gmt":"2023-10-19T10:59:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/southasia\/?p=1001"},"modified":"2023-11-08T13:30:43","modified_gmt":"2023-11-08T13:30:43","slug":"film-screening-chaityabhumi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/southasia\/2023\/10\/19\/film-screening-chaityabhumi\/","title":{"rendered":"Film Screening: &#8216;Chaityabhumi&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/QMChaityabhumi\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1002\" src=\"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/southasia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2023\/10\/20231102_SAF_Chaityabhumi-723x1024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"723\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/southasia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2023\/10\/20231102_SAF_Chaityabhumi-723x1024.png 723w, https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/southasia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2023\/10\/20231102_SAF_Chaityabhumi-212x300.png 212w, https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/southasia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2023\/10\/20231102_SAF_Chaityabhumi-768x1088.png 768w, https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/southasia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2023\/10\/20231102_SAF_Chaityabhumi-1084x1536.png 1084w, https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/southasia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2023\/10\/20231102_SAF_Chaityabhumi.png 1268w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0QMUL South Asia Forum\u00a0is pleased to welcome the filmmaker Somnath Waghmare for a screening and discussion\u00a0of his new documentary,\u00a0<em>Chaityabhumi\u00a0<\/em>(2023).<\/p>\n<p>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\u00a0Ambedkar&#8217;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&#8217;s media and elite Mumbaikars. Waghmare&#8217;s documentary explores the tensions of caste and public space in Mumbai as well as Ambedkar&#8217;s legacy in India today.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Please Register at <a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/QMChaityabhumi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tinyurl.com\/QMChaityabhumi\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Somnath Waghmare\u00a0<\/strong>is a filmmaker based in Maharashtra. The event will be chaired by\u00a0<strong>Amit Rai<\/strong>, Reader in Creative Industries and Arts Organisation, School of Business and Management, QMUL.<\/p>\n<p>Trailer:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Chaityabhumi - Official Trailer Release \u00a0I Pa Ranjith I Somnath Waghmare I Neelam Productions\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/v6EbCFsmGTg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div class=\"event-page-description\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0QMUL South Asia Forum\u00a0is pleased to welcome the filmmaker Somnath Waghmare for a screening and discussion\u00a0of his new documentary,\u00a0<em>Chaityabhumi\u00a0<\/em>(2023).<\/p>\n<p>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\u00a0Ambedkar&#8217;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&#8217;s media and elite Mumbaikars. Waghmare&#8217;s documentary explores the tensions of caste and public space in Mumbai as well as Ambedkar&#8217;s legacy in India today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":167,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/southasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/southasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/southasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/southasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/southasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1001"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/southasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1018,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/southasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001\/revisions\/1018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/southasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/southasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/southasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}