My Name Is Joker

Kapoor's legendary film maudit, clocking in at almost four hours, was condemned as an exercise in self-pity throughout the Indian film world,but its reputation has been gradually revived by Western critics, who saw in it echoes of Chaplin's Limelight and proclaimed it a self-reflexive masterwork. Kapoor completely undermines his tramp persona, removing from it all traces of heroism and social justice: here is a saccharine, mopey, love- obsessed clown whose one goal in life is to 'make Jesus laugh'. A compulsively watchable, astonishing train-wreck of a film.

The best material available to make the newly restored 35mm print was the 184min version (not 224min as advertised). We will still screen the film with an interval.