[Reader-list] Film "Khayal Darpan" at IIC, New Delhi, 21st June

[rohitrellan at aol.in]

You are cordially invited to the screening of the documentary film

Khayal Darpan (A Mirror of Imagination)

on 21 Jun 2014, at 6:30 pm

Venue: C.D. DESHMUKH AUDITORIUM, India International Centre,
Max Mueller Marg, New Delhi

Duration: 100 min; Language: Urdu/Hindi with English subtitles

Director: Yousuf Saeed, who will introduce the film

Screening will be followed by a discussion

A Delhi-based filmmaker spends half a year travelling across Pakistan,trying to understand how the state of Hindustani classical music has
fared after 1947 and Partition. He discovers that cultural revisionism has wrested some of the tradition from the people of Pakistan. From
Lahore to Karachi, Khayal Darpan not only presents some of the surviving practitioners and patrons of classical music Pakistan, it
describes how innovative ways have been utilised to keep traditions alive. The film raises fascinating questions about cultural identity,
nationalism and the survival of Hindustani classical music in South Asia.

More details: www.khayaldarpan.info