University of Hyderabad Club for Indian Movies & Documentaries (UoH-CIMD)

   

It’s been a long time the University of Hyderabad Club for Indian Movies & Documentaries (UoH-CIMD) started organising regular screening at UoH. It was inaugurated by Gulzar sahab in a programme at UoH sometime back in January, 2011. Generally, it showcases diverse films of different regions, languages, ages from every corner of India and largely cherishes the pan Indian Cinema. Here, it puts efforts not only to provide entertainment but also give a platform to discuss various issues that come to us through visual mediums. For this, it tries to encourage or engage audience into discussion after every screening. In respect to copyright and public screening issues, UoH-CIMD always makes it a point to take permission prior to the screening of films from the respective directors or at least reaches out to some person associated with it. Hence, this makes it very explicit that it does not download or copy any film and violate any rules. It also pays small tribute to the work by buying original CD/DVD in institutional or public screening rate, then it organises screening of any film.

Till now, it has screened films like I AM, Dhyaas Parva, Good Night Sofia, Homi Bhabha, The Kabul Cards, Leaving Home: The Life & Music of Indian Ocean and so on. Further, it extended our association and screened Shudra the Rising with the UoH Student’s Union 2012-13. The Club has supported in the screening of Deccani Souls by Kaz Rahman at UoH. It has also supported in promoting and organising the Traveling Uranium Film Festival in Hyderabad which was jointly organised by people from Yugantar, Hyderabad and UoH. Recently, the University of Hyderabad Committee Against Sexual Harassment (UoH-CASH) organised “A Film Fiesta on Gender” and UoH-CIMD actively participated in it.

It also organises screening with the help of Moving Images, Hyderabad’s Premier Film Club. As a part of this joint venture UoH-CIMD & Moving Images, have screened films like Adaminte Makan Abu, Bicycle Spoon Apple, Blood And Iron, One Day on Earth and so on at UoH. Very recently, Moving Images organised a film festival by name “Sense, Sensibility & Courage” as a part of the Women’s March 2013. The festival screened various films at several places and institutions in the city and UoH-CIMD could manage to have the screening of a movie; Kutty Srank at UoH too. It t’-CIMD on with teld a group isgroup it.studenits but also a platform tos a Malayalam feature film by Shaji N. Karun, released in 2010. The protagonist, Kutti Srank is a mariner operating a cargo vessel in a port of Kerala. The film explores the nature of his relationship with three different women to whom he meets in different circumstances during his life time.

   

As a part of the festival, Kutty Srank was screened at the DST Auditorium, University of Hyderabad, Gachibowli on 17^th March, Sunday, 9 pm. Although it was screened on Sunday night, in a holiday but it had good number of audience of nearly 150 to 200. At the beginning, a short introduction about the film was given by the organisers. As it is a long film due to which the movie ended little late in the night, so there was no discussion initiated after the screening but the audience liked the film. Their claps during the screening and discussion while going back were indicating it. A few people conveyed it personally too. UoH-CIMD is thankful to Moving Images, Hyderabad, University of Hyderabad Student Activity Forum (UHSAF) & The UoH Student’s Union 2012-13 for the event. UoH-CIMD hopes to continue its journey in the coming months and years. Thank you all.