Aruna Vasudev: Icon. Scholar. Mentor. Friend.
Hindustan TimesIt was impossible not to be struck by Aruna Vasudev. “This was how her house was – always full of people, always warm, there was cooking, and everybody, her accountant, her cook, everybody was part of the family.” Between Cinemaya and Cinefan, in 1990, Aruna founded the Network for the Promotion of Asian Cinema, a worldwide organisation aimed at promoting Asian films and filmmakers. She was great fun, but she was also very inspiring.” Aruna’s long-time associate Indu Shrikent, Cinemaya’s deputy editor, reminisces about their first trip together abroad, for a NETPAC conference in Rotterdam. By the time I left that place, Aruna had made sure I met everybody and got to know them well.” This then was Aruna Vasudev: pioneering promoter of Asian cinema, builder of institutions, film scholar, critic, author, mentor, and friend. In Supriya Suri’s 2021 documentary Aruna Vasudev: Mother of Asian Cinema, Aruna explained that her primary aim with Cinemaya was to break the monopoly of Westerners writing in English on Asian films.
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