[Reader-list] O Friend, This Waiting! Film Screening, New Delhi, Oct 23

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IFA grantees Justin McCarthy and Sandhya Kumar are screening their film O Friend, This Waiting! in Delhi this month. The research for this film was supported through a grant from IFA, under its Arts Research and Documentation programme.

Date: October 23, 2012
Time: 06:30 pm
Venue: India International Centre, 40, Max Mueller Marg, New Delhi. For more information about the venue call +91 11 2461 9431.


The filmmakers will be present to discuss their work and answer questions after the screening.

ABOUT THE FILM

Could a song be full of love, and yet banal and trifling? Such were the padams of Kshetrayya. A wandering poet-musician, Kshetrayya wrote for devadasis, the dancing courtesans at the courts of the 17th century Nayaka rulers. His padams became the most cherished of her songs of love. O Friend, This Waiting! reflects on the entwined fortunes of the padams and the women they were written for, from the 17th to the 20th century, while dwelling in the performance spaces of temples and courts of the Nayaka period.

CAMERA Amit Mahanti | EDITING Sandhya Kumar | 
SOUND RECORDING Elangovan R | VOCALIST Sudha Raghuraman 
DANCER Bharathi Penneswaran
DURATION 32 minutes, English (subtitled)

ABOUT THE FILMMAKERS

Sandhya Kumar is an independent filmmaker and editor. She has been making documentaries and experimental shorts since 2007. All her films are rooted in the non-fiction, and inspired by the desire to make visible the poetry of everyday life. Sandhya holds an MFA in Film from San Francisco Art Institute, and an MA in Mass Communication from Jamia Millia University, New Delhi. She now lives and works out of Bangalore.

Justin McCarthy is a musician and a dancer. As a musician he plays both the piano and the harpsichord. On the piano, apart from solo recitals, he has worked with many vocalists and instrumentalists. On the harpsichord, he has played solo programmes as well as duo recitals with harpsichordist Douglas Amrine. As a dancer he teaches and performs Bharatanatyam, sometimes as a soloist and sometimes in works he has choreographed for his group of dancers. Justin lives and works in New Delhi.