"Meera" (film)

Shown in conjunction with Rel. 19.13/AMES 42.08/COLT 55.1 and Rel. 40.08/AMES 42.09. Hindi with English subtitles. Free and open to all.

May 3, 2015
7 pm - 9 pm
Location
Room 003, Rockefeller Center
Sponsored by
Religion Department
Audience
Public
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Marcia Welsh
(603) 646-3738

The Rajput princess Meera is famous across South Asia for a career combining multiple talents. She was a poet, a musician, a charismatic saint, and a protofeminist rebel - in short, the sixteenth-century version of a rock str. This film from the 1970s gives the story of this revered figure the full Bollywood treatment. Dir. Gulzar, 1979.

Location
Room 003, Rockefeller Center
Sponsored by
Religion Department
Audience
Public
More information
Marcia Welsh
(603) 646-3738