City: Mumbai
Location: Alliance Française auditorium
Date: Mon, 2013/09/16 – 6:30pm
Category: Film screening

 

In partnership with Vikalp Film Archive

Bidesia in Bambai, by Surabhi Sharma (86’)

Bidesia is Bhojpuri for ‘the one who leaves home’. One in four migrants in Mumbai is Bhojpuri, a people from the north Indian states of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar. Bambai is their name for Mumbai/Bombay. The Bidesia in Bambai, like most migrants in this ‘global city’, inhabit its precarious edges. Mobile phones bridge a tenuous connection between home and the city. Along with his meagre belongings though, the migrant brings with him a vibrant musical culture. Bidesia in Bambai is a feature-length film that attempts to make the migrant visible, in a city that renders him illegal and unwanted, in and through the musical sphere that he inhabits. This is a story of music, migration and mobile phones.

DOCUMENTARY  Bidesia in Bambai