Bollywood News : TO complement the current Bollywood Stills exhibition at Contact Theatre in Manchester, two days of Bollywood-inspired workshops, talks  and the showing of two blockbuster films have been announced.

Dr.Rajinder Dudrah from The University of Manchester and curator of the Bollywood Stills exhibition, will be providing an insight into the world of Bollywood films for beginners between 12 – 13 February.

The two films screening will be Shah Rukg Khan starrer Kuch Kuch Hota Hai and all time bollywood favourite, curry western, Sholay starring Amitabh Bachchan.

The exhibition itself continues until Saturday 28 March 2009 and is free.

Drawing on the large action stills archives from Kamat Foto Flash in Mumbai, India, the exhibition charts the history of the action stills production process from its heyday in the seventies and eighties to their transformation into digital photography in the contemporary moment.

It comprises 40 photographic images on Perspex panels of images with curatorial text written by the University of Manchester’s Dr Rajinder Dudrah, providing both contemporary popular focus as well as historical documentation to the project and its importance to the growing Bollywood scene in the U.K. and internationally.

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* Kuch Kuch Hota Hai (1998)
Rahul and Anjali are students in a college in India, while Anjali is attracted to him, he only treats her as a close friend. Unable to tell him about her feelings, Rahul meets and gets married to another Indian girl by the name of Tina. Anjali decides not to get married. Rahul and his wife lead a blissful life, and soon Tina gets pregnant. She gives birth to a baby girl, they name her Anjali, but shortly after that Tina dies, leaving Rahul alone to look after Tina. He does a fairly good job at this, and Anjali grows up in his care. Then Anjali comes to know about the older Anjali, and her love for her dad, and sets forth on the task of bringing them together, unsure if her dad will even accept any other woman to take his late wife’s place
* Sholay (1975)
Sholay means fire. A Police Officer, who family was killed by a bandit named Gabbar Singh, decides to fight fire with fire and recruits two convicts, Jai and Veeru. He approaches them in jail, puts the proposal in front of them, and they agree to bring in Gabbar Singh alive – for a hefty price. After their discharge from jail, they travel by train to the village where the Police Officer lives – now with only his widowed daughter-in-law. The three band together to fight one of the most elusive and dreaded bandits of all time. Will the two ex-cons be able to bring Gabbar alive to the Police Officer?

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