# Varieties of Melodrama Conference

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November 6, 2025 | 6:00PM

Logan 201 & Cobb 307

Guru Dutt and Ritwik Ghatak at 100

Films: *Aar Paar* (1954), *Kaagaz Ke Phool* (1959), *Meghe Dhaka Tara* (1960), *Subernarekha* (1965).

Featuring Professors Richard Allen, Manishita Dass, Tanya Desai, Neepa Majumdar, Rochona Majumdar, Daniel Morgan, Lakshmi Padmanabhan, and Girish Sambu

Presented by the Committee on Southern Asia Studies, Film Studies Center, Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory, Department of Cinema and Media Studies, Department of South Asian Languages and Civilization, University of Chicago Global, and University of Chicago Center in Delhi