Atul Dodiya’s solo exhibition “Dr. Banerjee in Dr. Kulkarni’s Nursing Home and Other Paintings 2020–2022” was, among other things, an ode to classic Hindi cinema. The twenty-four works in the exhibition correspond to the twenty-four frames per second in a film. Each image emerges from a freezing of temporal flow, a moment of pause that the artist goes on to paint. In contrast with the drawing of a storyboard before a film is made, Dodiya paints in retrospect, reducing moving pictures to stills.

Dodiya included scenes from famous Hindi films, among them Hrishikesh Mukherjee’s Anupama (Incomparable,