In January, Dr Kirsty Sinclair Dootson (Associate Professor in Art and Material Cultures of Britain) was invited to open the new series of BBC Radio 4’s Thinking Allowed with a conversation about Colour in Film.
She was in dialogue with Swarnavel Eswaran (Michigan State University) a member of the Bombay Film Colour research group, which Kirsty co-convenes with Professor Ranjani Mazumdar (Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi).
They discussed how the choice of colour film stocks in India from the 1950s was determined as much by political alliances and economic limitations as by aesthetic preferences, and looked closely at the 1961 Eastmancolor movie Junglee starring Shammi Kampoor (A.K.A “the Indian Elvis”).
Image: Junglee (Mukherjee, 1961)
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