Nostalgia for the Future

Nostalgia for the Future is a film on Indian modernity the making of the citizen and the architecture of the home It looks at imaginations of homes across four examples of buildings made over the period of a century These are Lukhshmi Vilas Palace in Baroda the gigantic home built by a progressive monarch in the late 19th Century Villa Shodhan in Ahmedabad a private residence which represents the idea of domesticity within Nehruvian modernity designed by Le Corbusier Sabarmati Ashram in Ahmedabad which epitomises the Gandhian aspirations of the nationstate and public housing in postindependence Delhi designed by the Government of India to house refugees from Pakistan and the bureaucrats of the newly independent nation