Updated On: 02 June, 2023 08:24 AM IST | Mumbai | Aditi Chavan
A new film club offers cinephiles in the city an avenue to watch and discuss films

A previous club session at the venue
Ardent bibliophiles of Mumbai might be aware of SwapBook, the first book club that opened in 2011. If you have ever wondered about the lack of a similar group for cinephiles, you are not alone. Vedant Naik, a resident from Prabhadevi had the same question a year ago. “Pravin Subramanian, who founded and has been running SwapBook since its early days, is a good friend. I joined the book club a year ago. I had pitched the idea to start a film club on similar lines back in January this year, and he liked it. That is how Off the Books came to be,” Naik reveals.
But finding a suitable space for this idea became a challenge. “We wanted to keep it intimate. At that point, 3 Art House reached out to me since they were keen to collaborate. I checked out their space and immediately loved it. Those keen to watch out-of-the-box movies can join us. They will get regular updates about our meetings through our WhatsApp broadcasts,” he mentions.