Kala Ghoda Arts Festival
Film (32 mins. 2019, Public Service Broadcasting Trust) screening followed by a discussion with the filmmakers Rohan Shivkumar (Mumbai) and Avijit Mukul Kishore (Mumbai)
Lovely Villa is the name of the apartment building where the filmmaker grew up in as he studied to become an architect. Located in Mumbai’s LIC Colony and designed by Charles Correa, it represents an imagination of the ideal community for a modern India.
The film explores the architecture of the colony through a personal narrative. Using found materials like old photographs and drawings, and stories that range from family histories and other narratives — both semi-fictional and documentary — the film highlights some of the specific architectural gestures of the project. It is a film about the relationship between architecture, everyday life, family, coming of age and the memory of ‘home’.
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