{"id":7284,"date":"2020-05-15T22:14:39","date_gmt":"2020-05-15T22:14:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/southasia\/?p=7284"},"modified":"2020-05-19T19:48:49","modified_gmt":"2020-05-19T19:48:49","slug":"mahadevan-discusses-badnam-basti-long-lost-queer-film-from-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/southasia\/news\/mahadevan-discusses-badnam-basti-long-lost-queer-film-from-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudhir Mahadevan Discusses Badnam Basti, Long-Lost Queer Film from India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday, May 7, the Block Museum at Northwestern University held a virtual screening of the 1971 film\u00a0<em>Badnam Basti, <\/em>followed by a Q&amp;A with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cinema.washington.edu\/people\/sudhir-mahadevan\">Professor Sudhir Mahadevan<\/a> (UW Cinema &amp; Media Studies) and Simran Bhalla (Ph.D. candidate, Screen Cultures, Northwestern University).\u00a0<em>Badnam Basti,\u00a0<\/em>considered one of the first LGBTQ films in Indian cinema, was long thought to be lost. This screening marked the last event in the Block Cinema series \u201cMorning Will Come: Modernity in Indian Cinema.&#8221; Watch the Q&amp;A with Professor Mahadevan below:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/416521622?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen title=\"Badnam Basti: Simran Bhalla and Sudhir Mahadevan in Conversation\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday, May 7, the Block Museum at Northwestern University held a virtual screening of the 1971 film\u00a0Badnam Basti, followed by a Q&amp;A with\u00a0Professor Sudhir Mahadevan (UW Cinema &amp; Media Studies) and Simran Bhalla (Ph.D. candidate, Screen Cultures, Northwestern University).\u00a0Badnam Basti,\u00a0considered one of the first LGBTQ films in Indian cinema, was long thought to be<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/southasia\/news\/mahadevan-discusses-badnam-basti-long-lost-queer-film-from-india\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":631,"featured_media":7291,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Sudhir Mahadevan Discusses Badnam Basti, Long-Lost Queer Film from India - South Asia Center<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/southasia\/news\/mahadevan-discusses-badnam-basti-long-lost-queer-film-from-india\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Sudhir Mahadevan Discusses Badnam Basti, Long-Lost Queer Film from India - South Asia Center\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"On Thursday, May 7, the Block Museum at Northwestern University held a virtual screening of the 1971 film\u00a0Badnam Basti, followed by a Q&amp;A with\u00a0Professor Sudhir Mahadevan (UW Cinema &amp; 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