DHRUPAD ARNAV II

Dhrupad Vocal Recital
By Abhijeet Sukhdane

Followed by
Dhrupad Instrumental Recital
By Pushpraj Koshti (surbahar)

DHRUPAD ARNAV II
Dhrupad festival organised in collaboration with The Raza Foundation
Curated by Pt. Nirmalya Dey

Dhrupad Instrumental Recital
By Manoj Solanke (pakhawaj)

Followed by
Dhrupad Vocal Recital
By Madhu Bhatt Tailang 

(73 min; 2022; Hindustani/English with English subtitles)
Director: Aditi Desai

The film will be introduced by Aditi Desai

Screening will be followed by a discussion 

This documentary film is based on Aditi Desai’s 50-year long journey as a major collector of vintage Kashmiri and European shawls. Based on her intensive research, fieldwork and knowlge, the film documents the social and cultural history of Kashmir and its legendary Pashmina and patterned Kani shawls; museum quality Kashmir and European shawls from her collection; and also draws attention to the art and craft of the invisible but highly skilled crafts persons, the Najibabadi rafugars

Speaker: Dr. Arthur L. Frank, Professor and Chair Emeritus, Public Health, Drexel University, School of Public Health, Philadelphia, USA and IIC Distinguished Fellow

Chair: Shri K.N. Shrivastava, Director, IIC
 

“Poems are the Dreams of the Earth”

Readings and talk by Raúl Zurita, one of the most important contemporary poets of Latin America and recipient of numerous awards, including the National Literary Prize of Chile 

Raúl Zurita will be accompanied by translator Anna Deeny Morales who will read in English

Welcome: Ms Omita Goyal, Chief Editor, IIC
Introduction by Dr. Sharmistha Mohanty

 
Raúl Zurita is one of the most extraordinary poets of our times. His is the compassion and hope and faith that come from having confronted despair. Zurita was arrested, when a young man, under the regime of General Pinochet in Chile. All his life his poems have spoken of the extreme injustice and suffering of the Chilean people. The devastation of the Chilean experience made it necessary for him to find new poetic forms, because those forms that already existed were incapable of containing these new brutalities. Although Zurita begins from tragedy, he ends with the beauty and hope of the human condition. He has often said, “The task is not to write books or to paint paintings, it is to make life a work of art and that is the task still at hand.” 

(Collaboration: Almost Island)

Presented by Dr. Uma Sharma and her disciples

Dance Choreography: Dr. Uma Sharma
Music: Pt. Jwala Prasad (late)

(Collaboration: Uma Sharma School of Dance and Music –  Bharatiya Sangeet Sadan)
 

(138 min; 2021; English/Hindi with English subtitles)
Directed by Hemant Chaturvedi who will introduce the film

Screening will be followed by a discussion

The film follows the lives and creative journeys of 14 cinematographers, who worked primarily in the Mumbai film industry. Between these 14 people, they have filmed over 800 movies and over 15,000 commercials, between the early 1960s and until the previous decade. The film captures their early years and the serendipitous events that chart the emotional journeys of professionals; and the inevitability and mortality of their lives
 

Vocal recital by Astha Goswami, disciple of Pt. Arun Bhaduri and Smt Girija Devi
Accompanied by Atual Shankar, Athar Hussain and Kaushik Mitra

Astha has evolved her own unique style of Padavali Gaayan which incorporates the rich intricacies of Khayal gayaki. Her repertoire includes a rich and rare compositions from the Braj region and songs of different seasons

(Collaboration: Guild for Service)
 

A tribute to well-known filmmaker and media professional, Pramod Mathur.

 13 August at 10 am    Are you with Me? (52 min; 2007; English)
An insight into the HIV & AIDS scenario in the state of Manipur in northeast India. The beginnings of injecting drug use, the subsequent spread of the HIV virus, later times, when awareness was higher but the task to combat drug use, HIV & AIDS and the status of widows was formidable. 

Discussion on Living with HIV
Introduction and Conversation led by Loon Gangte, HIV/AIDS activist

At 12:30     Sannate ka Chhand: Phrase of Silence (42 min; 1989; Hindi)
Sachchidananda Hirananda Vatsyayana 'Ajneya', a great modern Indian littérateur, who was proficient in English, but wrote in Hindi. He died before this film was completed, but an exclusive interview had been recorded. In the video film, Vatsyayan speaks his own biography against the backdrop of places where he has lived, though, created, loved and written.

Discussion on Ajneya’s Contribution to Hindi Literature
Introduction and Conversation led by Om Thanvi, writer, senior journalist, editor and critic, founding Vice-Chancellor, Haridev Joshi University of Journalism and Mass Communication, Jaipur

At 3 pm    Brainstorm: Morphing of the Documentary in the Era of Social Media
Thought sharing by Milin Kapoor, filmmaker, cinematographer, and editor; and Dr. Anandana Kapur, filmmaker and education, founder-Director, Cinemad India; Amudhan R.P., documentary filmmaker and media activist; Iikka Vehkalahti, former Commissioning Editor, Yle Television, Finland

Moderator: Aparna Sanyal, award-winning Director and Producer of nonfiction independent and television documentaries

At 4:45 pm    Krishna – The Divine Lover (28 min; 1985; English)
The charm of a God, more human than godly, donning various roles in different circumstances. Here, he is depicted in his romantic form. This depiction of a much-loved and worshipped God is contextualised with modern attitude towards love.

Discussion on Sensual Reality in Indian Culture
Introduction and Conversation led by Shovana Narayan, well-known Kathak artist and guru

At 5:30 pm    Look at My India (21 min; English)
A trailer segment of an unfinished project. Pramod Mathur had been thinking of people he befriended over 20 years ago in his film-making journey, wondering what happened to them. The aim was to talk with characters from his old films and see where they are between the past and present. Bimla in Koraput, Odisha, is one such character. 

Discussion on Western Hegemony in the Documentary Sector
Introduction and Conversation led by Neelima Mathur

At 7:15 pm    In Conversation: Growing and Living with a Filmmaker
Tanushree Sengupta with Neelima Mathur

A tribute to well-known filmmaker and media professional, Pramod Mathur. The tribute includes a screening of documentaries made by Pramod and Neelima Mathur, conversations and a panel discussion

  Opening Address
Aruna Vasudev, Raghu Rai, Naresh Bedi, Rajiv Mehrotra, Lavlin Thadani, Mahendra Verma,  Indrani Mishra, P.D. Valson, S. Dhanpal, ,Milin Kapoor .

Pre-recorded videos from Monica Lal, Meinolf Fritzen, Michael Camerini, Cheryl Groff,  Ron Hess, Abdul Ashraf Dali, Sang-ki Lee and  Iikka Vehkalahti 

At 7:20 pm    Film: Jungle Dreams (28 min; 1997; English)
Chendru, a Muria tribal in central India, had acted in a Swedish film forty years ago before this film was made.  The present film studies the impact of the Swedish film on this simple tribal boy viz-a-viz his relationship with kinsmen and the changes in his life forty years later. 

Discussion on The Filmmaker and Protagonist Relationship
Introduction and Conversation led by Pankaj Johar, documentary filmmaker