Bollywood costume in the lecture will be the key to the history of Indian cinema - from silent films and early sound pictures to urban cowboys, wet saris, and futuristic armor. Indian cinema rarely goes without costume as an expressive means. Saris, turbans, armor, stage outfits, and fantastic silhouettes help the viewer understand the genre, character traits, and the scale of the story even before the first line. In Ekaterina Bychkova's lecture, Bollywood is examined through clothing - as a huge screen machine where fashion, myth, music, melodrama, and mass culture work together. The conversation will begin with context: in the 1970s, the Indian film industry surpassed the American one in the number of films produced, and the combination of the words "Hollywood" and "Bombay" gave the world the term "Bollywood." Initially, it was often used to refer to all Hindi-language Indian cinema, although today there are other regional industries - Tollywood, Mollywood, Kollywood. The lecturer will talk about bright records and plots in Bollywood history: about the production scale that led Bollywood to the Guinness Book of Records in 1990, about silent films with unexpectedly bold scenes, a fairy-tale film with dozens of songs, and one of the longest screen kisses. Register on Timepad. All entertainment in Petersburg is gathered on our website.