Jan 22, 2024
Charlie and Celina Baljeet Basra (Happy) discuss the experiences undocumented migrants to Western Europe face, French film director Jean Luc Goddard's seminal film Bande À Part, Indian talkshow Koffee With Karan, and Celina's particular usage of Umbrella, ella, ella, eh, eh, eh.
The Abduction Of Europe
A review of 'Park', the 2017
exhibition curated by Celina
Bande À Part
Bruce Bégout's Le Park
Uski Roti
There are no clips of the discussed Koffee With Karan episode on
YouTube, but if you've the right channel, it is from 7th November
2010
Where to find Celina online
Website || Twitter || Instagram
Where to find Charlie online
Website || Twitter || Instagram
Discussions
01:48 Why Celina wanted to tell this story:
inspiration from a distant relatives' migration from India to
Italy
05:24 Celina's highly unique narrative structure
(fragmented) and how she used it to further achieve her aims
09:45 Would there have been a way for Happy's life
to improve, if what happened to him at the end didn't happen?
12:07 The real riot of exploited migrants that was
mentioned in the book
14:36 The character of Europe and the way Celina
created a woman from a continent
19:32 The importance of the presence of Happy's
family in the novel
21:20 The phrases of Italian vocabulary included
that shows us where Happy is in his learning about his new life
24:35 Wonderland - the real one in Jalandhar and
Celina's fictionisation of it
28:53 The inclusion of Jean Luc Goddard's Bande À
Part
34:35 The inclusion of Indian talkshow Koffee With
Karan
40:22 Why Celina included the other narrative
voices of Harbir and Zhivago at the end
43:37 What's next
Photo credit: Lilian Scarlet.