[Reader-list] [Announcements] Film @ Sarai: Khayal Darpan: A Documentary Film about Classical Music in Pakistan: Yousuf Saeed

[Aarti Sethi]

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Film @ Sarai: November – December 2006
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KHAYAL DARPAN:A Mirror of Imagination
A Documentary Film about Classical Music in Pakistan
by Yousuf Saeed,105 mins, Hindustani/English, Delhi, 2006
5:30 P.M., Friday, 17 November 2006
Seminar room, Sarai-CSDS




In 2005, the Delhi-based filmmaker, Yousuf Saeed, spent more than 6  
months in Pakistan as part of a research fellowship where he surveyed  
the development of khayal and other forms of classical traditions in  
Pakistan after 1947. After traveling in the 3 main cities of Pakistan  
– Lahore, Karachi and Islamabad - interviewing musicians and  
scholars, attending musicconcerts, and observing the teaching of  
music in various institutions,Yousuf not only managed to document  
some of the surviving practitioners andmpatrons of art music, but  
also raised many vital questions about cultural identity,  
nationalism, legitimacy of music in Islam, Pakistan's popular culture  
and its affairs with India, and the survival of classical music  
itself in South Asia. The film features some well-known as well as  
many lesser known but talentedmusicians of Pakistan, breaking many  
stereotypes about the country.

For more information about the film and to see a video clip from it,  
please visit:

http://www.ektara.org
http://www.khayaldarpan.info


Yousuf will be present for a discussion after the screening.
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