Anjali Menon: Cinema treading the contemporary path

Cinema is changing with the shift to the contemporary, and the new media and social  networking sites are playing a larger role to it. Filmmakers also respond to the voice of the people in this realm, filmmaker Anjali Menon has said.


She along with Karthika V K, publisher and Chief Editor, HarperCollins India, inaugurated the two-day UGC-sponsored national seminar on ‘Remapping of Reality Through Visual Technology-Interdisciplinary Engagements’ organised by the Department of English, St Teresa’s College, on Thursday.


Karthika spoke on graphic novels. She said that the first graphic novel to be popular in the US was ‘Maus’. In India though we had Amar Chitra Kathas, real and relevant issues are being related through graphic novels during the last five years.


Dr Seema Khanwalkar, a semiotician and visiting faculty at CEPT University, NID and MICA, Ahmedabad, also spoke.


Meena T Pillai, director of Centre for Cultural Studies, University of Kerala, spoke about the change in Bollywood and how films were moving from the national to the global arena.


Film critic C S Venkiteswaran spoke on ‘New media and the changing contours of cinema’.


Fathima Riyaz, faculty of Krishna Menon Memorial Women’s College, will speak on the graphic novels on Friday followed by discussions and a presentation by C S Jayaram on ‘Remapping Reality’.