Cooking with Sreemoyee Singh—Rannaghore Ke? Episode 14

Описание: Today’s episode features the amazing Sreemoyee. She is a documentary filmmaker, whose first film "And, Towards Happy Alleys" has been widely acclaimed all over the world.

Sreemoyee made this film in Iran over five separate visits, and it is her quest to follow in the trail of the poets and filmmakers she admires in Iran, such as the Iranian feminist poet Forough Farrokhzad, filmmaker Jafar Panahi, and other notable directors and actors—many of whom appear in her film.

Please watch it if you can (it is on Mubi India right now, as well on Criterion, for streaming). It is Sreemoyee’s love letter to Iranian cinema and most importantly Iranian poetry. But more than anything else it is an attempt to understand how Iranian society has preserved the joy and beauty of music, cinema, and poetry despite living under censorship and an authoritarian regime for so many decades.

And, where there is Sreemoyee, there are ~shenanigans~ and this episode of Rannaghore Ke? is no exception. Sreemoyee made us a lovely “tahchin”, the Iranian set, layered dish of saffron-infused rice, meat, and berries, with a Shirazi twist in the form of fried brinjal! She served it with a refreshing salad Shirazi. Sticking to the Persian theme, we also revisted one of our other favourite Rannaghore Ke? recipes, this one from Dr Abhijit Banerjee’s cookbook, the Persian cold yoghurt soup or “abdoogh khiar”.

Please enjoy the thoughtful chaos that is Sreemoyee. We did have a lot of fun the day we filmed this episode.

🌹 Follow Sreemoyee on Instagram:   / sreemoyee.singh  

🎬 Watch "And, Towards Happy Alleys"
on Mubi India: https://mubi.com/en/in/films/and-towa...
on Criterion: https://www.criterionchannel.com/and-...

🎧 Listen to “Soltane Ghalbha”—Dolinman × Sreemoyee:    • Soltane Ghalbha سلطان قلب‌ها : Dolinman X ...  
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