Director: Kumar Shahani; Writer: Kumar Shahani; Producer: Roshan Shahani; Cinematographer: Alok Upadhyay; Editor: Paresh Kamdar; Cast: Kelucharan Mohapatra, Sanyukta Panigrahi
Duration: 01:02:32; Aspect Ratio: 1.794:1; Hue: 353.715; Saturation: 0.055; Lightness: 0.178; Volume: 0.259; Cuts per Minute: 2.766
Summary: A spectacular part-fictional documentary on
India’s famous Odissi dance, seen via its
foremost living exponent, Guru Kelucharan
Mahapatra. The film shows how living
traditions and modes of social initiation can
turn into classical forms. Described by the
director as a film ‘about hunger’, it returns the
dance to both the labour that it celebrates and
the improvisations that continue to defy
codification and control. Many of the dances,
including the spectacular Navarasa sequence
at the end, were choreographed specially for
the cinema.
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