Bollywood: Alfred Talkies, traditional Hindi cinema is owned by a woman

This is an excerpt of "Bollywood : Mumbai's last film poster painter | Art of Bollywood poster"
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In the heart of Mumbai lives Sheikh Rehman, the city's last painter of film posters. His studio is run in the old masters' style - behind the screen of an old Hindi film cinema. Here, Rehman is both artist and guru, comedian and philosopher. But modernity is taking over and the audiences that have come in for generations for refuge and entertainment are dwindling. With the theatre facing potential demolition, marketing has turned to more plastic movie posters to lure in more people, replacing the need for Rehman’s original work. It’s a hopeless struggle but Rehman won’t give up …
ORIGINAL COPY is a delightful ode to life and the cinema. As Rehman says, movies are like life: "The reel keeps rolling, and the movie goes on."
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In the heart of Mumbay, in Kamathipura district, a traditional Hindi cinema is run by a woman. Still too rare in a country where women live in insecurity and lack of consideration. In fact, her grandfather, who owned the cinema Alfred Cinema Hall, had no intention of passing it on to his granddaughter. Nonsense in a society where family pride is based on a daughter's marriage, rather than on her education and professional future.
And yet, for the woman who was nurtured from an early age by Bollywood cinema, becoming the manager of this temple of cinema was always an obvious choice. In fact, her life is like that of a heroine in a Hindi film by Satyajit Ray, beyond women's familiar images: an impulsive, determined woman, the driving force behind the emancipation of women who love her work. She carefully checks all the films released in her cinema, taking care to show mainly action films appreciated by her audience. Here, films are projected on 35mm. Alfred talkies is one of Mumbai’s most atmospheric theatres. However, as well as having to deal with the injustices against women, the manager also has to face up to the economic upheavals affecting cinemas and the sometimes vicious competition between them.
Original title: Original Copy
A film written, directed and produced by Florian Heinzen-Ziob & Georg Heinzen
© 2015, licensed by Magnetfilm
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