IFA@Bangalore | Film Screening: Letters Unwritten to Naiyer Masud by Shahi AJ | March 16, 2023 | The Park, Bangalore

We are delighted to invite you to the screening of Letters Unwritten to Naiyer Masud by Shahi AJ on March 16, 2023, 07:30 PM onwards at The Park, Bangalore.

Interwoven with elements from documentary art and animation sequences, the film is a meditation on a place—the architecture of Lucknow—and derives its spatial imaginaries from the literary oeuvre of the Urdu literary figure Naiyer Masud. The film also takes on an epistolary form, with voiceovers from a group of admirers of Naiyer Masud's literary universe, who travel from South India to Lucknow as a pilgrimage. With this, the viewer is led into a space of fictional architectonics, literature and animation .

Shahi AJ (Writer, director) and Bharath Murthy (Animator) will be in conversation with John Xaviers, Programme Officer: Arts Practice at IFA. 

Date: March 16, 2023, 07:30 PM
Duration: 64 minutes 
Languages: English, Hindi, Urdu, Malayalam, with subtitles in English
Venue: Oak Room, The Park
No 14/17, MG Road, Bangalore - 560 042

The event will have Indian Sign Language interpretation.

Do join us for drinks and hors d'oeuvres post the screening.

We thank our beverage partners Maka Zai Rum and Sonarys Fine Wines.

Shahi AJ is an FTII-trained filmmaker. Letters Unwritten to Naiyer Masud had its world premiere at International Film Festival Rotterdam. 

Bharath Murthy is a comics writer/artist, animator, and filmmaker. He is the Founding Editor of Comix India and Vérité. 

Shahi AJ received a grant from India Foundation for the Arts (IFA) under the Arts Practice programme, made possible with part-support from Cholamandalam Investment and Finance Company.