The Sax in the City (60 min; 2016; dvd; English subtitles)

Directed by Praveen Kumar who will introduce the film

 

Screening will be followed by a discussion

 

In Mumbai perspectives keep changing. The Koli fisher folk of this string of islands birth their own music-singing, dancing playing on festive occasions. Anand Vaiti is part of this unique East Indian Band culture but wants to learn the saxophone and, against all odds sets out, surreptitiously following a man who turns out to be the legendry Joe Pereira.

 

A small community of saxophone players in Mumbai, the film introduces and reintroduces them...