Study name: Space in Sai Paranjpye’s cinema – An exploration of spatial experiential
Project lead: Swati Bakshi
Project length: January 2019– January 2023
Project overview
This study examines how space and lived human experience is imagined and constructed in Sai Paranjpye’s films. The spatial turn in the geographic traditions illuminated the idea of space as an analytical tool to access and understand human social existence, relationships and socio-economic processes. This project is particularly invested in exploring the cultural specificity of spatial organization and the constructed lived reality in seven films of Sai Paranjpye. The lived social reality will be examined in interaction with the overall industrial and socio-political institutional context. The study also probes how this inter-relational geography shapes the socio-political categories of caste, class and gender in a specific cultural context.