[Reader-list] [Announcements] [DFA: 20] Screening - Naina Jogin

[Delhi Film Archive [DFA]]

*Delhi Film Archive with History Society Ramjas College
* present a season of documentaries

*NAINA JOGIN (THE ASCETIC EYE)*
59 minutes
A film by Praveen Kumar (present for the screening)
*
* 13 September, 2007 at 1:15 pm
 Venue: Seminar Room, Ramjas College, Delhi University

*
NAINA JOGIN (THE ASCETIC EYE) *



In Madhubani, people struggle against trying circumstances to eke out a
living. Many have taken to painting to survive. Motifs having a strong
ritual basis were painted on the cow dung coated walls of huts but now they
are done on paper.



The film Naina Jogin is about these painters, their circumstances, their
inspirations and their works.



The central line of the film is the *Khobbar* ritual in which a newly
married couple spend three days and nights in the painted *Kohbbar Ghar *before
they may consummate their marraige*.*


This vigil over desire provides the film with a mysterious energy...

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