[Reader-list] Invitation to the screening of The Other Song at Ananya, Bangalore

[India Foundation for the Arts]

 Ananya GML Cultural Academy
and
 India Foundation for the Arts
 
Cordially invite you to the screening of the film
 
‘The Other Song’
 
Directed by Saba Dewan
 (This film was funded by India Foundation for the Arts under its Arts Research and Documentation programme in 2002 and 2005)
The screening will be followed by a Q&A session with the filmmaker
Venue:   Ananya, 91/2, 4th main, Malleswaram, Bangalore – 560 003
Date:   Sunday, August 30, 2009
Time:   6.30 pm
(Entry is free)
Please do come !
 
 
  In 1935, Rasoolan bai, the well known singer from Varanasi, recorded for the Gramaphone a thumri that she would never sing again- ‘Lagat job anwa ma chot, phool gendwa na maar’ (My breasts are wonded, don’t throw flowers at me). A variation of her more famous song -  ‘Lagat Karejwa ma chot, phool gendwa na maar’ ( 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.
 
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