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Vijay Singh’s latest film Farewell My Indian Soldier (Mademoiselle France pleure) is a docu-fiction, a moving portrayal of Indian soldiers who came to fight in France and Belgium during the First World War. The presence of these 150,000 soldiers in Europe is a virtually unknown fact of history.
In this film, Vijay Singh recounts the story of Indian soldiers through the eyes of love and human affection. The screening will be followed by an interactive session with the director Mr Vijay Singh and M.K. Raghavendra. MK Raghavendra is a film scholar and critic. He received the National Award or Best Film Critic in 1997. He has authored three volumes of academic film criticism – Seduced by the Familiar: Narration and Meaning in Indian Popular Cinema (Oxford, 2008), Bipolar Identity: Region, Nation and the Kannada Language Film (Oxford, 2011) and The Politics of Hindi Cinema in the New Millennium: Bollywood and the Anglophone Indian Nation (Oxford, 2014). He has also written two books on cinema for the general reader 50 Indian Film Classics (Collins, 2009) and Director’s Cut: 50 Film-makers of the Modern Era (Collins, 2013). He is also the author of the Oxford India Short Introduction to Bollywood (2016). FREE ENTRY & OPEN TO ALL.
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