India, March 5 -- * Afterlives of Indian cinema

Cinemchi Duniya: Panna, Parda, Baja is an exhibition that dwells on what remains after the projector stops whirring. Drawing from the Takshila Art Collection, it turns its gaze to cinema's printed and sonic residues: song booklets, posters, lobby cards, publicity material, and other fragments that once travelled through bazaars, single-screen foyers and private collections. These are not treated as nostalgia pieces but as living artefacts that carried films into homes, onto streets and into memory.

Curated by Ravikant, an intermedia historian, archivist and translator, the exhibition traces how cinema from the pre-internet era created enduring impressions in its early years.

The show is p...