Dartmouth Events

"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.

Sunday, May 3, 2015
7:00pm – 9:00pm
Room 003, Rockefeller Center
Intended Audience(s): Public
Categories: Films

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.

For more information, contact:
Marcia Welsh
(603) 646-3738

Events are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted.