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The reel migrant

The Migration Story’s first ‘By Invitation’ column looks at how Hindi cinema and its songscape have captured the journey of migrants from villages to cities.

Padam Bhushan

Radha Rajadhyaksha


The Migration Story’s first ‘By Invitation’ column looks at how Hindi cinema and its songscape have captured the journey of migrants from villages to cities. This is a video teaser to take you to the full column that you must read on www.themigrationstory.com Credits: Script: Radha Rajadhyaksha Video: Padam Bhushan Illustrator: Vipul Kumar TMS Signature music: Akshay Ramuhalli

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  • Padam Bhushan
  • Radha Rajadhyaksha is a Mumbai-based journalist, who, in the course of her career, has headed several editing teams at The Times of India and its allied publications. She has written on a range of subjects from cinema and music to politics, human rights, civic and consumer issues and law. After quitting TOI as Senior Editor, she wrote a cinema column for The Hindu newspaper and edited several books, among them Kamu Iyer’s book on colonial architecture called ‘Boombay’, American academic Jayson Beaster Jones’ ‘Bollywood Sounds: The Cosmopolitan Mediations of Hindi Film Song’ and ‘Multiciplities’, a book on Mumbai urban heritage commissioned by MMRDA. Besides writing and editing, cinema is her passion—she has assisted acclaimed film-maker Govind Nihalani and has a diploma in screenwriting from Whistling Woods, Mumbai.

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