Memories of Milk City

Director: Ruchir Joshi    → show biography   ← hide biography

Biography: Ruchir Joshi was born in Kolkata, India in 1960. He gained a Bachelor of Arts degree and works as a writer, columnist and filmmaker. TALES FROM PLANET KOLKATA was digitally restored, alongside other films of Joshi.

Director: Ruchir Joshi    → show biography   ← hide biography

Biography: Ruchir Joshi was born in Kolkata, India in 1960. He gained a Bachelor of Arts degree and works as a writer, columnist and filmmaker. TALES FROM PLANET KOLKATA was digitally restored, alongside other films of Joshi.

Country: India

Year: 1991

Synopsis: Ahmedabad is a city in Western India. It is one of the wealthiest cities in the country. It is also a city that has seen some of the most violent religious riots in India’s recent history. Taking off from these twin realities, the film uses a set of images repeated twice with variations (images of cows fast food, a swing, traffic) and along with this set of images it lays a voice-track of spoken words, nonsense rhymes that are not so nonsensical, and prose about a writer’s nostalgia at visiting his city after many year’s abroad. (IKF Oberhausen, 1992)

Language: English, Hindi