06-06-2007 11:18
Two of the world’s most famous film stars are to launch a Bradford exhibition on Indian cinema this Friday.
Mr Amitabh and Mrs Jaya Bachchan will officially open the event at the National Media Museum ahead of the International Indian Film Awards – known as the Bollywood Oscars- in Sheffield the next day.
The exhibition will run from the 8 June until the end of September, and is curated by Senior Lecturer in Film and Media Studies at The University of Manchester, Dr Rajinder Dudrah.
It will draw on collections of Bollywood posters, photographs and promotional material, film clips and unique artefacts, as well as video interviews with Bollywood audiences from the Yorkshire region.
Mr Bachchan - known as ‘the Big B’- will be there with his wife Jaya, in their capacity as Indian International Film Academy ambassadors - which is supporting the exhibition.
Dr Dudrah is author of Bollywood: Sociology Goes to the Movies and supervises the only Bollywood course in the country.
He said: “We are thrilled that two of the greatest names in Indian cinema are opening this exhibition.
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