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Z -- PROGRAM 8: Bronx World Film Cycle, Winter 2015
Kash, a Smoking Fantasy (SCR/DIR Souman Bose, INDIA, 2014, TRT 60 min.) CAT: Mumblecore
Q & A with the Filmmaker: Souman Bose (15 minutes)
Kashi Mehrothra, a motherless young man from an affluent merchant family, is heavily influenced as a näive adolescent by Ram Sen, a "proletarian" who peddles beedis (small Indian cigarettes) and becomes a tycoon. Ram Sen preaches: "Beedi unnoti'r shiri!" ("Indian cigars are the staircase to success!") Kashi resolves to surpass this uneducated man with a more sophisticated intoxicant, a proper cigarette, and his obsession with becoming India's "Cigarette King" earns him the nickname "Kash," ("puff" or "drag"). Along the way, his melancholic life is threatened by a supernatural creature, vis-á-vis Jack Ketch. Political satire, horror and drama stir behind a little puff of smoke. (In English with English subtitles. U.S. premiere)
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Location"La Nacional" (View)
239 West 14th Street, 2nd Floor (7-8 Avenues)
New York, NY 10011
United States
Categories
| Minimum Age: 18 |
| Kid Friendly: No |
| Dog Friendly: No |
| Non-Smoking: Yes! |
| Wheelchair Accessible: No |
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