FILM & MUSIC : Kriti Film Club Presents "The Other Song" Hindi/Urdu/English Documentary Film Screening at Habitat World, India Habitat Centre (IHC), Lodhi Road > 7pm on 11th March 2016

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Time : 7:00 pm Add to Calendar 11/03/2016 19:00 11/03/2016 20:30 Asia/Kolkata FILM & MUSIC : Kriti Film Club Presents "The Other Song" Hindi/Urdu/English Documentary Film Screening Event Page : http://www.delhievents.com/2016/03/film-music-kriti-film-club-presents.html Habitat World, India Habitat Centre (IHC), Lodhi Road, New Delhi-110003 DD/MM/YYYY

Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served Basis)

Venue : Habitat World, India Habitat Centre (IHC), Lodhi Road, New Delhi-110003
Parking : Gate No. 1, 2 & 3 (Cars), Gate No. 2 (Bikes & Bicycles)
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'Jor Bagh(Yellow Line)Exit Gate-1' - Walk Direction
'Khan Market(Violet Line)'
Area : Lodhi Road Area Events

Event Description : Kriti Film Club Presents "The Other Song" Hindi/Urdu/English Documentary Film Screening.

In 1935, Rasoolan Bai the well-known singer from Varanasi, recorded for the gramophone a love song that she would never sing again, ‘My breasts are wounded, don’t throw flowers at me.’ A variation of her song, ‘My heart is wounded, don’t throw flowers at me,’ the 1935 recording faded from public memory and eventually got lost. More than 70 years later the film travels through Varanasi to search for the forgotten song. This journey opens a Pandora’s box of life stories, memories, half remembered songs and histories that for long have been banished into oblivion. It brings the film face to face with the enigmatic tawaifs or the courtesans who till a century back were amongst the most educated and privileged of Indian women. Today they stand recast as deviant, their arts, obscene; their story and that of the lost song linked to the making of modern India and the transitions around the control and censorship of female sexualities and cultural expression. 

Screening followed by an interaction with the filmmaker.

About the Film Club: Kriti Film Club is an educational and research oriented initiative of Kriti: a development praxis and communication team. We offer an independent and informal space for screening documentary films on a whole range of development, human rights &environment issues. We also serve as a borrowing & access space for documentary films.

Year : 2009

Film Duration : 2 hours

Director : Saba Dewan

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