Photographer: Amit Madheshiya
Time: January 7, 2008
Place: Rural Maharashtra, India
Introduction:
For about six decades, now tent cinema companies accompany annual religious fairs which begin in Maharashtra (western India) after the crop gathering season ends in October. Traveling with these fairs, not very far from the cinema capital of India-Mumbai, the tent talkies hawk an eclectic mix of films-regional language films, Bollywood blockbusters and even dubbed Hollywood flicks as they travel across the rural landscape.
“The Talkies in A Tuck” documents an old, unique yet endangered model of exhibition and reception of cinema, which has suitably amalgamated itself in the folklorist cultural traditions of the villages.
