Asian Pop-Up Cinema partners with NU, screens 'Shankar's Fairies'

Shot over a 35-day span, “Shankar’s Fairies,” directed by Irfana Majumdar and written by her mother Nita Kumar, is a bittersweet, unembellished glimpse into Kumar’s childhood in 1960s Lucknow, India. The 2021 film was screened Wednesday as part of the Asian Pop-Up Cinema at The Block Museum series. The inaugural initiative is the brainchild of...

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