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Naach videorecording The dance produced by Rahul Roy ; direced by Saba Dewan

By:

Dewan, Saba

Contributor(s):

Material type: Film

FilmPublication details: Bombay Saba Dewan c2008Description: 1 videodisc (84 min.) sd., col 4 3/4 inSubject(s):

Genre/Form:

Documentary -- Feature.

DDC classification:

791.4372 NA

Contents:

The Sonpur cattle fair in rural Bihar comes alive every evening when more than fifty girls take to the stage and dance for an all male audience. A barbed wire fence separates the performers from the spectators. Originally part of the nautanki, a popular folk theatre genre of north India, the dance of the female performer today has become a replay of Bombay films and music videos that span rural and metropolitan landscape. It is a performance charged with sexual energy. The girls dance, make eye contact, beckon, gesticulate and even abuse a highly responsive all male audience. What meanings related to contemporary construction and practice of gender, sexuality, labour and popular culture can we read in the dance of the female performer.

Production credits:

Camera, Rahul Roy ; editing, Anupama Chandra ; sound, Ashish Pandya

Awards:

Pusan International Film Festival, 2008 Madurai International Documentary Film Festival, 2008 IAWRT Women Film Festival, New Delhi, 2009 Nazariya Women’s Film Festival, Ahmedabad, 2009 14ª Mostra Internacional do Filme Etnográfico, Rio de Janeiro, 2009 Persistence Resistance Film Festival, New Delhi, 2010 Beeld voor Beeld Film Festival, Amsterdam, 2010 Beeld voor Beeld Film Festival, Bagota, 2010 Engendered Film Festival, New York, 2010 Göttingen International Ethnographic Film Festival, 2010 – to be screened Telecast on NDTV in 2009

Summary:

Item type:

Multimedia

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Holdings
Item type	Home library	Collection	Shelving location	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Multimedia	OPJGU Sonepat- Campus	Special collection- CD/DVD (Multimedia)	Central Library	791.4372 NA (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		300231

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The Sonpur cattle fair in rural Bihar comes alive every evening when more than fifty girls take to the stage and dance for an all male audience. A barbed wire fence separates the performers from the spectators. Originally part of the nautanki, a popular folk theatre genre of north India, the dance of the female performer today has become a replay of Bombay films and music videos that span rural and metropolitan landscape. It is a performance charged with sexual energy. The girls dance, make eye contact, beckon, gesticulate and even abuse a highly responsive all male audience.

What meanings related to contemporary construction and practice of gender, sexuality, labour and popular culture can we read in the dance of the female performer.

Camera, Rahul Roy ; editing, Anupama Chandra ; sound, Ashish Pandya

DVD ; PAL.

In English and Hindi with English subtitles.

Pusan International Film Festival, 2008
Madurai International Documentary Film Festival, 2008
IAWRT Women Film Festival, New Delhi, 2009
Nazariya Women’s Film Festival, Ahmedabad, 2009
14ª Mostra Internacional do Filme Etnográfico, Rio de Janeiro, 2009
Persistence Resistance Film Festival, New Delhi, 2010
Beeld voor Beeld Film Festival, Amsterdam, 2010
Beeld voor Beeld Film Festival, Bagota, 2010
Engendered Film Festival, New York, 2010
Göttingen International Ethnographic Film Festival, 2010 – to be screened

Telecast on NDTV in 2009

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