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JNU gets a new Eurasian cinema club
| An attempt to explore the society of Russia and countries of Commonwealth of Independent States through films |
A new cinema club will be inaugurated at Jawaharlal Nehru University in the Capital later this week to enable students to better understand the culture of Russia and other countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS).
The Eurasian Foundation -- a non-profit public research institute -- has set up a Eurasian Cinema Club whose chief patron will be JNU Rector-II Ramadhikari Kumar and president Varyam Singh, Dean of the School of Language, Literature and Culture Studies on the campus.
The club will be opened at the School of Arts and Aesthetics auditorium this coming Friday.
The ceremony will be followed by the screening of the Oscar-winning blockbuster of the Soviet era, “Moscow does not believe in tears”.
“We have a course on Russian society and culture at the M.A. and M.Phil. levels run by both the School of International Studies and the School of Languages. We believe that cinema is a very effective medium of communication to understand the society in Russia and other CIS countries and hence decided to set up the Eurasian Cinema Club,” says Arun Mohanty, Director of the Eurasian Foundation and associate professor at the JNU Centre for Russian and Central Asian Studies.
“The JNU fraternity has a wide interest in cinema. The club will screen different movies at regular intervals and organise interactions with cinema personalities of the CIS countries. At a later stage we may even look at joint ventures between Indian artists and their CIS counterparts. We want to expose the JNU community in general, and the SIS and SLS students in particular, to films from that part of the world,” Dr. Mohanty adds.
JNU teachers and students will be the members of this club.
Parul Sharma
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