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Other song videorecording produced by Sakshi ; direced by Paromita Vohra.

By:

Dewan, Saba

Contributor(s):

Material type: Film

FilmPublication details: Bombay Saba Dewan c2004Description: 1 videodisc (120 min.) sd., col 4 3/4 inSubject(s):

sexuality-India, music-India, Documentary, Feature- film, exclusion-India, gender-India, history-India, culture-India

Genre/Form:

DDC classification:

781.6309475 OT

Online resources:

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Contents:

In 1935 Rasoolan Bai the well known singer from Varanasi recorded for the gramophone a thumri that she would never sing again – My breasts are wounded, don’t throw flowers at me. A variation of her more famous song – My heart is wounded, don’t throw flowers at me, the 1935 recording, never to be repeated, faded from public memory and eventually got lost. More than seventy years later the film travels through Varanasi, Lucknow and Muzzafarpur in Bihar to search for the forgotten song. This journey brings the film face to face with the enigmatic figure of the tawaif, courtesan, bai ji and the contested terrain of her art practice and lifestyle. To find the lost other song the film must understand the past and present of the tawaif and unravel the significant transitions that took place in late 19th and early 20th century around the control, censorship and moral policing of female sexualities and cultural expression.

Production credits:

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

Awards:

Winner of the Mecenat prize for best documentary at the Pusan International Film Festival, 2009 Screened at: Pusan International Film Festival, 2009 Doclisboa, Lisbon, 2009 Dubai International Film Festival, 2009 Bird’s Eye View Women’s film festival, London, 2010 Doc.fest Munich Film festival, 2010 Engendered Film Festival, New York, 2010

Summary:

Item type:

Multimedia

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Item type	Home library	Collection	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Multimedia	OPJGU Sonepat- Campus Central Library	Special collection- CD/DVD (Multimedia)	781.6309475 OT (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		300229

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In 1935 Rasoolan Bai the well known singer from Varanasi recorded for the gramophone a thumri that she would never sing again – My breasts are wounded, don’t throw flowers at me. A variation of her more famous song – My heart is wounded, don’t throw flowers at me, the 1935 recording, never to be repeated, faded from public memory and eventually got lost.

More than seventy years later the film travels through Varanasi, Lucknow and Muzzafarpur in Bihar to search for the forgotten song. This journey brings the film face to face with the enigmatic figure of the tawaif, courtesan, bai ji and the contested terrain of her art practice and lifestyle. To find the lost other song the film must understand the past and present of the tawaif and unravel the significant transitions that took place in late 19th and early 20th century around the control, censorship and moral policing of female sexualities and cultural expression.

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

DVD ; PAL.

In English and Hindi with English subtitles.

Winner of the Mecenat prize for best documentary at the Pusan International Film Festival, 2009

Screened at:
Pusan International Film Festival, 2009
Doclisboa, Lisbon, 2009
Dubai International Film Festival, 2009
Bird’s Eye View Women’s film festival, London, 2010
Doc.fest Munich Film festival, 2010
Engendered Film Festival, New York, 2010

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