Mumbai:. Osianama, India’s first arts, auto and cinema cultural centre was launched with the Red Carpet Premiere of the film ‘BABY’. The Premiere saw several Bollywood stars walk the red carpet from Akshay Kumar, Anupam Kher, Rana Duggubati, Madhurima Tuli to Neeraj Pandey, Kunal Kapoor, Ketan Mehta, Rajit Kapur, Rajan Khosa, Rakesh Kumar, Priti Jhangiani and many others. Osianama will be housed at the iconic art-deco Liberty Cinema  and aims to usher in the concept of cultural clubs where connoisseurs to the public, the great thinkers to the students will share their experiences.

Osianama promises to be the nerve-centre for the exhibition, edutainment, screening & knowledge for the arts, auto, cinema, culture and the preservation of its heritage. It complements the vast emerging online knowledgebase – osianama.com – so systematically moving towards the long cherished objective of rebuilding the educational global platform for India’s cultural civilization.

Osianama will embrace nine membership-driven cultural clubs under its umbrella which will be inaugurated step by step The Osianama ‘Clubs’ are as follows: 1 Vintage & Classic Automobiles; 2 Cinefan; 3 Antiquities & Fine Arts Appreciation; 4 Books & Poetry; 5 Photography; 6 Architectural Heritage & Preservation; 7 All Creatures Great & Small; 8 Design, Craft & Popular Cultures & 9 Sporting Heritage. After the launch of Cinefan Club and Vintage Automobiles Club, the Antiquities & Fine Arts Appreciation, Books and Poetry will be operational within next couple of months.

While announcing the launch of Osianama, Neville Tuli stated that, “this has been a pivotal institutional step of one’s vision for the past twenty years. Few, if any, cultural institutions, have been built in this world with such independence from patronage, sponsorship and donations. We have always envisaged art, culture and its heritage as India’s greatest assets which will balance and nurture both economic and religious forces once having built its own material infrastructure with daily financial independence. Osianama will provide a new global learning platform for the connoisseurs & students of art, culture, cinema, architecture and its heritage, with the citizens of

Mumbai and India gaining a new confidence because of its intellectual energy, innovative presence and a sense of public entitlement based on creative merit being respected.”

As a part of launch events, the Red Carpet Premiere will be followed by the launch of Osianama’s Vintage & Classic Automobile Club on 24th January with a host of events bringing together some of the finest minds and classic cars in the world on Automotive History and Design. Sunday, 25th January will see the Launch of Osianama’s Cinefan Club with Conversation, Discussion & Master Class by Neeraj Pandey and Anupam Kher.

The Osianama Cinefan Club will host premieres of over 50 top quality films from India and the best of World Cinema in its first year. It will also organize twelve major exhibitions (e.g. On Orson Welles; Clark Gable & Marlon Brando; Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton & the Marx Brothers; Polish Poster Design 1950-70s; Japanese Aesthetics & the Samurai; Sci-Fi & Horror Designs of the 1950-60s) and related discussions, master classes & debates with a focus on Hollywood, Indian and World cinema.

source : Sachin Murdeshwar