Film: Bajirao Mastani

In celebration of the exhibition Global Threads: The Art and Fashion of Indian Chintz, the Museum will be showing the visually stunning Bollywood film Bajirao Mastani (2015; not rated) in The Farrell Auditorium.

Bajirao Mastani is an epic love story between a cunning general, Bajirao, and his second wife, Mastani, a warrior princess. A born cavalry leader, Bajirao was unequaled for the daring originality of his genius. Mastani was an expert dancer, singer, and warrior. A chance meeting on a battlefield where they fight on the same side puts Bajirao and Mastani on a course of passionate love that is unstoppable by their families, by war, or by death itself.