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The film looks at how the Word, resonates in and resonates of ordinary lives across centuries. Beginning from an everyday cloudy monsoon morning in the city of Bhopal it travels to Malwa, Madhya Pradesh, (the hub of tribal India) also known as the second home of Pt. Kumar Gandharva, one of the greatest musicians of our time. Here within the fast altering fabric of a challenged rural life we encounter common people, age-caste-gender regardless, fighting hard to earn a square meal daily, yet keeping music alive at the bosom of a gnawing fate. Far beyond the scope of any intellectual resolve it is at once a refusal to die, and more significantly a bid to seize eternity from historic annihilation.

'Word Within the Word' is a crucial gateway to the India we are fast forgetting, one that is difficult to classify and categorise but simpler to understand if you hear its common folk talk. It is this human landscape within which one can aspire to come to terms with one’s contemporary dilemmas stemming from learned responses, fragmented dreams.

Subject: Bhakti Movement, Culture, Ethnography, Music, Poetry

Awards and Screenings

World premiere at DOKFEST, Munich, Germany, 2008;

Screened at:
World Film Festival Bangkok;
Cinema Verite Iran Int. Doc Film Festival, Tehran;
IAWRT-IIC Asia Project film festival, New Delhi, India, 2008;
Persistence Resistance Film Festival, New Delhi, 2008;
Vrittant, Bharat Bhavan, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, 2008;
Film Appreciation Course, FTII, Pune, India, 2008;
National Film Archive, Pune, India, 2008;

Awards:
Horizonte Preis, DOKFEST '08, Germany

Producer

Jyotsna Milan

Creative Crew

Camera: Rajula Shah, Gurvinder Singh / Editing: Arghya Basu, Rajula Shah

Territory: WORLD

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