Filmi Jagat: A Scrapbook

Filmi Jagat A Scrapbook: Shared Universe of Early Hindi Cinema is a unique pre-Independence scrapbook and an intimate work that combines the immediacy of a private diary and the reflective distance of a carefully curated photo album. The book is a reproduction of the scrapbook in its entirety, and a discussion of the key elements that were so central to the expansion of cultural experience at the time – access to the world in the form of print artifacts such as literature and newspapers and media phenomena such as film and photography.

Debashree Mukherjee

Debashree Mukherjee is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Cinema Studies at New York University. Associate Editor with BioScope: South Asian Screen Studies, Debashree recently curated an exhibition titled Maya Mahal: An Enchanted Look at Hindi Cinema.

Rahaab Allana

Rahaab Allana is Curator, Alkazi Foundation for the Arts, New Delhi and Editor, PIX: A Photography Quarterly. Apart from the Filmi Jagat scrapbook, the recently created Rahaab Allana Collection comprises film stills, lobby cards, song books and other memorabilia dating between the 1930s-80s.