Bollywood Netflix Party: Ek Ladki Ko Dekha Toh Aisa Laga
- Event Date: Tuesday, June 9, 2020
- Time: 7:00 pm (CDT)
- Location: Online Netflix Party (external link)
Ek Ladki Ko Dekha Toh Aisa Laga (Hindi, dir. Shelly Chopra Dhar) is the love story of Sweety, her conservative family, a writer, a chef, and their secrets. Released in 2019, it is also one of the first LGBTQ films created in the mainstream Hindi film industry (also known as Bollywood).
Event Hosts
- Mara Thacker, Global Popular Culture and South Asian Studies Librarian, International and Area Studies Library
- Umeeta Sadarangani, Professor of English, Parkland College
- Beth Watkins, Spurlock Museum and Hindi film journalist
Event hosts will introduce the film at 7:00 pm, be available for questions as the film plays, and stay online for Q&A after at around 9:00 pm.
Film runtime: 1h 59m.
Instructions
This event requires use of your own Netflix account and installation of the Netflix Party extension on the Chrome browser. Netflix Party enables synchronized viewing with a window for typed chat as the film plays.
Contact
For further information on this event, contact Beth Watkins at ewatkins@illinois.edu (email link) or (217) 265-5485.
All participants are welcome. To request disability-related accommodations for this event, please contact Brian Cudiamat at cudiamat@illinois.edu (email link) or (217) 244-5586.