Post Colonial imagination of Bombay : A cinematic city

The growth of urban space and its modern infrastructure has a relationships with the collective social and cultural memory linked to certain sorts of identities within the city. In this Paper, I explore the connections between urban space, memory, infrastructure and time; and I examine how have these issues or concerns have changed with the arrival of modernist enterprise, further giving way to a postmodernist imagination. In order to do so, I rely on theories related to the ideas of anthropology, cybernatics, architecture and the role of the city as an archive. While exploring the idea of city as an archive, I use Sacred Games (NetFlix Tv series, 2018 ) to explore this idea in its cinematic manifestations. Here, cinema and the city are to be emphasized upon along with the dynamics of the relationship between the two. Also, this undertakes the many aspect of the urban such as, space, infrastructure and archive. Between urban space and infrastructure, this paper grapples with the idea of memory and time situated in modernist and postmodernist paradigms. This paper is divided into three section. First section deals with the idea of places and non places and their role in carving out the spatial and temporal urban space. 2nd part of the paper deals with idea of memory and archive and its amorphous nature. And lastly I explore the Bombay city as an archive with the help of Sacred Games(Netflix Tv Series , 2018) and Kaala(2018, Pa. Ranjith).