Ranjit S. Ruprai
@ranjitsruprai.bsky.social
Curator supakino.com / Founder @the-cloud-door.bsky.social / Former Chair riocinema.org.uk
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Tomorrow is the final SUPAKINO #bombaymix of the year. And it’s a corker!
Join @ranjitsruprai.bsky.social, @bressonian.bsky.social and @britfilmmelanie.bsky.social for a double bill of BLOW-UP (1966) and JAANE BHI DO YAARO (1983)
SAT SEPT 27th 2025
www.closeupfilmcentre.com/film_program...
Join @ranjitsruprai.bsky.social, @bressonian.bsky.social and @britfilmmelanie.bsky.social for a double bill of BLOW-UP (1966) and JAANE BHI DO YAARO (1983)
SAT SEPT 27th 2025
www.closeupfilmcentre.com/film_program...
September 26, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Tomorrow is the final SUPAKINO #bombaymix of the year. And it’s a corker!
Join @ranjitsruprai.bsky.social, @bressonian.bsky.social and @britfilmmelanie.bsky.social for a double bill of BLOW-UP (1966) and JAANE BHI DO YAARO (1983)
SAT SEPT 27th 2025
www.closeupfilmcentre.com/film_program...
Join @ranjitsruprai.bsky.social, @bressonian.bsky.social and @britfilmmelanie.bsky.social for a double bill of BLOW-UP (1966) and JAANE BHI DO YAARO (1983)
SAT SEPT 27th 2025
www.closeupfilmcentre.com/film_program...
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Really looking (or 'leica-ing' - sorry 😞) forward to this photographic double bill this Saturday, programmed with panache by @ranjitsruprai.bsky.social
📷 Counterculture On Camera 📸
Join @ranjitsruprai.bsky.social, @bressonian.bsky.social (recorded intro) + film historian @britfilmmelanie.bsky.social for a double bill of JAANE BHI DO YAARO & BLOW-UP at Close-Up Cinema on SAT 27 SEP 2025
tinyurl.com/yc4m69ys
Cool art by @bturnerinfo.bsky.social
Join @ranjitsruprai.bsky.social, @bressonian.bsky.social (recorded intro) + film historian @britfilmmelanie.bsky.social for a double bill of JAANE BHI DO YAARO & BLOW-UP at Close-Up Cinema on SAT 27 SEP 2025
tinyurl.com/yc4m69ys
Cool art by @bturnerinfo.bsky.social
September 25, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Really looking (or 'leica-ing' - sorry 😞) forward to this photographic double bill this Saturday, programmed with panache by @ranjitsruprai.bsky.social
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The splendidly programmed final double bill from @ranjitsruprai.bsky.social in the new series of Bombay Mix. Unfortunately unable to attend in person now but have recorded an intro for Kundan Shah's JBDY, and which will be a very rare UK screening. Unmissable!
📷 Counterculture On Camera 📸
Join @ranjitsruprai.bsky.social, @bressonian.bsky.social (recorded intro) + film historian @britfilmmelanie.bsky.social for a double bill of JAANE BHI DO YAARO & BLOW-UP at Close-Up Cinema on SAT 27 SEP 2025
tinyurl.com/yc4m69ys
Cool art by @bturnerinfo.bsky.social
Join @ranjitsruprai.bsky.social, @bressonian.bsky.social (recorded intro) + film historian @britfilmmelanie.bsky.social for a double bill of JAANE BHI DO YAARO & BLOW-UP at Close-Up Cinema on SAT 27 SEP 2025
tinyurl.com/yc4m69ys
Cool art by @bturnerinfo.bsky.social
September 23, 2025 at 7:53 AM
The splendidly programmed final double bill from @ranjitsruprai.bsky.social in the new series of Bombay Mix. Unfortunately unable to attend in person now but have recorded an intro for Kundan Shah's JBDY, and which will be a very rare UK screening. Unmissable!
📷 Counterculture On Camera 📸
Join @ranjitsruprai.bsky.social, @bressonian.bsky.social (recorded intro) + film historian @britfilmmelanie.bsky.social for a double bill of JAANE BHI DO YAARO & BLOW-UP at Close-Up Cinema on SAT 27 SEP 2025
tinyurl.com/yc4m69ys
Cool art by @bturnerinfo.bsky.social
Join @ranjitsruprai.bsky.social, @bressonian.bsky.social (recorded intro) + film historian @britfilmmelanie.bsky.social for a double bill of JAANE BHI DO YAARO & BLOW-UP at Close-Up Cinema on SAT 27 SEP 2025
tinyurl.com/yc4m69ys
Cool art by @bturnerinfo.bsky.social
September 22, 2025 at 5:53 PM
📷 Counterculture On Camera 📸
Join @ranjitsruprai.bsky.social, @bressonian.bsky.social (recorded intro) + film historian @britfilmmelanie.bsky.social for a double bill of JAANE BHI DO YAARO & BLOW-UP at Close-Up Cinema on SAT 27 SEP 2025
tinyurl.com/yc4m69ys
Cool art by @bturnerinfo.bsky.social
Join @ranjitsruprai.bsky.social, @bressonian.bsky.social (recorded intro) + film historian @britfilmmelanie.bsky.social for a double bill of JAANE BHI DO YAARO & BLOW-UP at Close-Up Cinema on SAT 27 SEP 2025
tinyurl.com/yc4m69ys
Cool art by @bturnerinfo.bsky.social
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#bestfilminlondontoday Sep 20 at capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com guide to London films. Supakino screening: 'This rarely screened British film is a marvellous curio' Jack Clayton’s strange, gothic OUR MOTHER'S HOUSE (1967) at Close-Up Cinema capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/2025/08/capi...
September 20, 2025 at 9:48 AM
#bestfilminlondontoday Sep 20 at capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com guide to London films. Supakino screening: 'This rarely screened British film is a marvellous curio' Jack Clayton’s strange, gothic OUR MOTHER'S HOUSE (1967) at Close-Up Cinema capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/2025/08/capi...
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This Saturday @ Close-Up Cinema: A Bombay Mix double bill of BABUL/FATHER'S HOUSE (S.U. Sunny, 1950) and OUR MOTHER'S HOUSE (Jack Clayton, 1967). I'm very excited to join @ranjitsruprai.bsky.social for post-screening conversations on these two rarely screened gems. Book here! tinyurl.com/mtv4mbw2
September 17, 2025 at 7:49 PM
This Saturday @ Close-Up Cinema: A Bombay Mix double bill of BABUL/FATHER'S HOUSE (S.U. Sunny, 1950) and OUR MOTHER'S HOUSE (Jack Clayton, 1967). I'm very excited to join @ranjitsruprai.bsky.social for post-screening conversations on these two rarely screened gems. Book here! tinyurl.com/mtv4mbw2
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Another fantastic double bill w/ SUPAKINO
Here’s my poster for the screening of BABUL aka FATHER’S HOUSE (1950) & OUR MOTHER’S HOUSE (1967).
Join @ranjitsruprai.bsky.social & film critic @phuonghhle.com at the CLOSE-UP CENTRE on SAT 20 SEP 2025
www.closeupfilmcentre.com/film_program...
Here’s my poster for the screening of BABUL aka FATHER’S HOUSE (1950) & OUR MOTHER’S HOUSE (1967).
Join @ranjitsruprai.bsky.social & film critic @phuonghhle.com at the CLOSE-UP CENTRE on SAT 20 SEP 2025
www.closeupfilmcentre.com/film_program...
September 18, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Another fantastic double bill w/ SUPAKINO
Here’s my poster for the screening of BABUL aka FATHER’S HOUSE (1950) & OUR MOTHER’S HOUSE (1967).
Join @ranjitsruprai.bsky.social & film critic @phuonghhle.com at the CLOSE-UP CENTRE on SAT 20 SEP 2025
www.closeupfilmcentre.com/film_program...
Here’s my poster for the screening of BABUL aka FATHER’S HOUSE (1950) & OUR MOTHER’S HOUSE (1967).
Join @ranjitsruprai.bsky.social & film critic @phuonghhle.com at the CLOSE-UP CENTRE on SAT 20 SEP 2025
www.closeupfilmcentre.com/film_program...
🏠 The Parental Home 🏡
Join me and my special guest, film critic @phuonghhle.com, for a double bill of BABUL aka FATHER’S HOUSE (1950) & OUR MOTHER’S HOUSE (1967) at Close-Up Film Centre on SAT 20 SEP 2025
www.closeupfilmcentre.com/film_program...
Stunning artwork by @bturnerinfo.bsky.social
Join me and my special guest, film critic @phuonghhle.com, for a double bill of BABUL aka FATHER’S HOUSE (1950) & OUR MOTHER’S HOUSE (1967) at Close-Up Film Centre on SAT 20 SEP 2025
www.closeupfilmcentre.com/film_program...
Stunning artwork by @bturnerinfo.bsky.social
September 15, 2025 at 4:20 PM
🏠 The Parental Home 🏡
Join me and my special guest, film critic @phuonghhle.com, for a double bill of BABUL aka FATHER’S HOUSE (1950) & OUR MOTHER’S HOUSE (1967) at Close-Up Film Centre on SAT 20 SEP 2025
www.closeupfilmcentre.com/film_program...
Stunning artwork by @bturnerinfo.bsky.social
Join me and my special guest, film critic @phuonghhle.com, for a double bill of BABUL aka FATHER’S HOUSE (1950) & OUR MOTHER’S HOUSE (1967) at Close-Up Film Centre on SAT 20 SEP 2025
www.closeupfilmcentre.com/film_program...
Stunning artwork by @bturnerinfo.bsky.social
🇮🇳 Revolutionary Cinema 🇨🇺
Join me and special guest Dr Kulraj Phullar, film studies teacher and researcher, for a double bill of MOTHER INDIA (1957) & I AM CUBA (1964) at Close-Up Cinema on SAT 13 SEP 2025
🎟️ www.closeupfilmcentre.com/film_program...
Amazing artwork by @bturnerinfo.bsky.social
Join me and special guest Dr Kulraj Phullar, film studies teacher and researcher, for a double bill of MOTHER INDIA (1957) & I AM CUBA (1964) at Close-Up Cinema on SAT 13 SEP 2025
🎟️ www.closeupfilmcentre.com/film_program...
Amazing artwork by @bturnerinfo.bsky.social
September 8, 2025 at 5:20 PM
🇮🇳 Revolutionary Cinema 🇨🇺
Join me and special guest Dr Kulraj Phullar, film studies teacher and researcher, for a double bill of MOTHER INDIA (1957) & I AM CUBA (1964) at Close-Up Cinema on SAT 13 SEP 2025
🎟️ www.closeupfilmcentre.com/film_program...
Amazing artwork by @bturnerinfo.bsky.social
Join me and special guest Dr Kulraj Phullar, film studies teacher and researcher, for a double bill of MOTHER INDIA (1957) & I AM CUBA (1964) at Close-Up Cinema on SAT 13 SEP 2025
🎟️ www.closeupfilmcentre.com/film_program...
Amazing artwork by @bturnerinfo.bsky.social
Bombay Mix is back! A new season of double bills at Close-Up Film Centre on 13, 20 & 27 Sep 2025 with Dr. Kulraj Phullar, @phuonghhle.com & @bressonian.bsky.social
🇮🇳 MOTHER INDIA + 🇨🇺 I AM CUBA
🏠 BABUL + 🏡 OUR MOTHER’S HOUSE
📷 JAANE BHI DO YAARO + 📸 BLOW-UP
Info: supakino.com/events
🇮🇳 MOTHER INDIA + 🇨🇺 I AM CUBA
🏠 BABUL + 🏡 OUR MOTHER’S HOUSE
📷 JAANE BHI DO YAARO + 📸 BLOW-UP
Info: supakino.com/events
September 1, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Bombay Mix is back! A new season of double bills at Close-Up Film Centre on 13, 20 & 27 Sep 2025 with Dr. Kulraj Phullar, @phuonghhle.com & @bressonian.bsky.social
🇮🇳 MOTHER INDIA + 🇨🇺 I AM CUBA
🏠 BABUL + 🏡 OUR MOTHER’S HOUSE
📷 JAANE BHI DO YAARO + 📸 BLOW-UP
Info: supakino.com/events
🇮🇳 MOTHER INDIA + 🇨🇺 I AM CUBA
🏠 BABUL + 🏡 OUR MOTHER’S HOUSE
📷 JAANE BHI DO YAARO + 📸 BLOW-UP
Info: supakino.com/events
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Thank you so much for believing in us!
These are our next steps...
Watch this space!
@ranjitsruprai.bsky.social & @bressonian.bsky.social
Founders of The Cloud Door
These are our next steps...
Watch this space!
@ranjitsruprai.bsky.social & @bressonian.bsky.social
Founders of The Cloud Door
July 20, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Thank you so much for believing in us!
These are our next steps...
Watch this space!
@ranjitsruprai.bsky.social & @bressonian.bsky.social
Founders of The Cloud Door
These are our next steps...
Watch this space!
@ranjitsruprai.bsky.social & @bressonian.bsky.social
Founders of The Cloud Door
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A smart and thoughtful plan for the future being offered here — will happily continue to support their goals!
Thank you so much for believing in us!
These are our next steps...
Watch this space!
@ranjitsruprai.bsky.social & @bressonian.bsky.social
Founders of The Cloud Door
These are our next steps...
Watch this space!
@ranjitsruprai.bsky.social & @bressonian.bsky.social
Founders of The Cloud Door
July 20, 2025 at 8:41 PM
A smart and thoughtful plan for the future being offered here — will happily continue to support their goals!
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We're truly heartened by the support for our home video label venture. Messages have come in from all over the world. Thank you! ❤️
We're nearly 25% funded, but we still need your help. Please keep spreading the word, pre-order, or pledge today! 🎞️ 👇
www.kickstarter.com/projects/tcd...
We're nearly 25% funded, but we still need your help. Please keep spreading the word, pre-order, or pledge today! 🎞️ 👇
www.kickstarter.com/projects/tcd...
OM DAR-B-DAR (1988) - Limited Edition Blu-ray & Extras
THE CLOUD DOOR, a new boutique label, presents one of Indian cinema's most influential cult films on Blu-ray.
www.kickstarter.com
July 16, 2025 at 8:20 AM
We're truly heartened by the support for our home video label venture. Messages have come in from all over the world. Thank you! ❤️
We're nearly 25% funded, but we still need your help. Please keep spreading the word, pre-order, or pledge today! 🎞️ 👇
www.kickstarter.com/projects/tcd...
We're nearly 25% funded, but we still need your help. Please keep spreading the word, pre-order, or pledge today! 🎞️ 👇
www.kickstarter.com/projects/tcd...
By the way, I am also introducing the marvellously fun and silly film BHOOT BUNGLA (1965) directed by Mehmood and starring himself + R D Burman. Join me and @tokenhomo.bsky.social at Genesis Cinema, London, on 23 July 2025 genesiscinema.co.uk/event/99644
July 15, 2025 at 6:50 PM
By the way, I am also introducing the marvellously fun and silly film BHOOT BUNGLA (1965) directed by Mehmood and starring himself + R D Burman. Join me and @tokenhomo.bsky.social at Genesis Cinema, London, on 23 July 2025 genesiscinema.co.uk/event/99644
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If you want to see classics of South Asian cinema issued in beautiful new editions - which you obviously do - then make sure you are backing this brilliant project!
We hit 20% of our kickstarter goal!
Another milestone reached & all thanks to you! ❤️
Please keep spreading the word as we need all the support we can get to make this a reality. 🙏
You can pledge an amount or pre-order the Blu-ray:
www.kickstarter.com/projects/tcd...
Another milestone reached & all thanks to you! ❤️
Please keep spreading the word as we need all the support we can get to make this a reality. 🙏
You can pledge an amount or pre-order the Blu-ray:
www.kickstarter.com/projects/tcd...
July 15, 2025 at 6:37 PM
If you want to see classics of South Asian cinema issued in beautiful new editions - which you obviously do - then make sure you are backing this brilliant project!
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I have just learned about this excellent new boutique Bluray house with a focus on South Asian cinema -- their initial Kickstarter for their first release will run for another two weeks and a half, but they're only at 20%. Spread the word! This really looks like the start of a beautiful effort here.
☁️🚪The day has arrived! We are live with the Kickstarter and so are pre-orders for Om Dar-B-Dar. We are very excited to share with you details of the first release! ☁️🚪
www.kickstarter.com/projects/tcd...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/tcd...
OM DAR-B-DAR (1988) - Limited Edition Blu-ray & Extras
THE CLOUD DOOR, a new boutique label, presents one of Indian cinema's most influential cult films on Blu-ray.
www.kickstarter.com
July 14, 2025 at 3:38 AM
I have just learned about this excellent new boutique Bluray house with a focus on South Asian cinema -- their initial Kickstarter for their first release will run for another two weeks and a half, but they're only at 20%. Spread the word! This really looks like the start of a beautiful effort here.
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Lovely to see this plan! Again, check out their feed and their current Kickstarter to get things up and running for them. It's a striking looking first film to start with, and having this kind of open range for the future is a delight.
Thanks Ned for your support! Once we release this first title we will be up & running. We already have a plan to release more Indian film titles and we want to be all regions, all genres, all cinemas so in no way restricted to arthouse/indie films.
July 14, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Lovely to see this plan! Again, check out their feed and their current Kickstarter to get things up and running for them. It's a striking looking first film to start with, and having this kind of open range for the future is a delight.
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Latest newsletter just landed in your inbox… please keep spreading the word about our new label and this first amazing film release… and keep making those pledges! 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽 www.kickstarter.com/projects/tcd...
July 15, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Latest newsletter just landed in your inbox… please keep spreading the word about our new label and this first amazing film release… and keep making those pledges! 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽 www.kickstarter.com/projects/tcd...
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Parallel Days/Bollywood Nights opens @newyork.asiasociety.org on Friday, @bressonian.bsky.social and @ranjitsruprai.bsky.social are launching @the-cloud-door.bsky.social, and Guru Dutt turned 100 this week!
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July 10, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Parallel Days/Bollywood Nights opens @newyork.asiasociety.org on Friday, @bressonian.bsky.social and @ranjitsruprai.bsky.social are launching @the-cloud-door.bsky.social, and Guru Dutt turned 100 this week!
www.criterion.com/current/post...
www.criterion.com/current/post...
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🐸🎞️ We are so delighted and honoured to have filmmaker Kamal Swaroop support us in getting his film out on Blu-ray for the first time - OM DAR-B-DAR deserves its cult status to extend worldwide and you can help make this happen: www.kickstarter.com/projects/tcd...
July 8, 2025 at 11:31 AM
🐸🎞️ We are so delighted and honoured to have filmmaker Kamal Swaroop support us in getting his film out on Blu-ray for the first time - OM DAR-B-DAR deserves its cult status to extend worldwide and you can help make this happen: www.kickstarter.com/projects/tcd...
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Omar Ahmed & Ranjit S. Ruprai are launching The Cloud Door: a boutique UK home video label for South Asian films. I spoke with them for Old New about their Kickstarter campaign, the lack of Indian movies on Blu-ray, and the underground influence of their previously banned first release Om Dar-B-Dar:
Opening The Cloud Door: An Interview with Omar Ahmed and Ranjit S. Ruprai
Launching a Home Video Label for South Asian cinema
oldnew.substack.com
July 7, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Omar Ahmed & Ranjit S. Ruprai are launching The Cloud Door: a boutique UK home video label for South Asian films. I spoke with them for Old New about their Kickstarter campaign, the lack of Indian movies on Blu-ray, and the underground influence of their previously banned first release Om Dar-B-Dar:
Had a fun interview with oldnew.substack.com, about the new blu-ray label @the-cloud-door.bsky.social, in which Rob asked for an Indian film he should watch from @bressonian.bsky.social and myself… can you guess which ones we suggested (clues below)?
July 6, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Had a fun interview with oldnew.substack.com, about the new blu-ray label @the-cloud-door.bsky.social, in which Rob asked for an Indian film he should watch from @bressonian.bsky.social and myself… can you guess which ones we suggested (clues below)?
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We're 15% funded! 👏
Back us. Share. Spread the word.
We need all the support we can get. 👇
kickstarter.com/projects/tcd...
#PhysicalMedia #IndianCinema #HomeVideo
Back us. Share. Spread the word.
We need all the support we can get. 👇
kickstarter.com/projects/tcd...
#PhysicalMedia #IndianCinema #HomeVideo
July 5, 2025 at 10:47 AM
We're 15% funded! 👏
Back us. Share. Spread the word.
We need all the support we can get. 👇
kickstarter.com/projects/tcd...
#PhysicalMedia #IndianCinema #HomeVideo
Back us. Share. Spread the word.
We need all the support we can get. 👇
kickstarter.com/projects/tcd...
#PhysicalMedia #IndianCinema #HomeVideo
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For a long time, I said what Indian cinema needs is a kind of alternative to Criterion for Indian movies. And then, THIS happened! It's so exciting, and it really NEEDS us to step up and join the Kickstarter (I did!) #DesiWatch #Filmsky
☁️ 🚪 For nearly ten yrs, this home video dream has lived in my heart. You know my love for Indian Cinema runs deep. Now, more than ever, I ask: please pledge to the Kickstarter and give it the chance it deserves:
kickstarter.com/projects/tcd...
kickstarter.com/projects/tcd...
OM DAR-B-DAR (1988) - Limited Edition Blu-ray & Extras
THE CLOUD DOOR, a new boutique label, presents one of Indian cinema's most influential cult films on Blu-ray.
kickstarter.com
July 3, 2025 at 3:25 PM
For a long time, I said what Indian cinema needs is a kind of alternative to Criterion for Indian movies. And then, THIS happened! It's so exciting, and it really NEEDS us to step up and join the Kickstarter (I did!) #DesiWatch #Filmsky
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Thank you to everyone who has backed us so far!
Our first milestone achieved! 🎉
10% funded! ☁️🚪
Our first milestone achieved! 🎉
10% funded! ☁️🚪
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July 2, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Thank you to everyone who has backed us so far!
Our first milestone achieved! 🎉
10% funded! ☁️🚪
Our first milestone achieved! 🎉
10% funded! ☁️🚪