Under Construction - UC Films

A special collection of 2 films on Indian Music. (Available on DVD only).

An attempt to imagine a day in a song’s life. One of the many possible journeys of the song and its creators become the canvas.

A documentary on Ganasaraswati Padmavibhushan Kishori Amonkar.

A journey to understand ‘Marfat’ through encounters with various Fakirs and their songs.

An attempt to make meaning of aspects of contemporary culture in Trinidad and Jamaica, even as it is a witness to the nature and possibilities of artistic collaboration.

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan’s metamorphosis from a genuine popular artiste to a mass produced exotica of the east.

‘Rasikapriya’ undertakes the challenge to visualize the poetry and notes of the raagas of Indian classical music.

An exploratory journey seeking one’s own rhythm, through the magnetic flux of rural and urban rhythms.

In 1935 Rasoolan Bai recorded for the gramophone this thumri – My breasts are wounded, don’t throw flowers at me. Never to be sung again, the song eventually got lost. 74 years later the film travels through Varanasi, Lucknow and Muzzafarpur in search of the forgotten song.

Rehman’s new version of Vande Mataram is an icon for India’s modern and globalised image, but realities are uncomfortable.

The “wretched of the earth” hold fast the spirit of Bhakti, the Word resonating in and with their lives. As they sing the poetry of Kabir and Gorakhnath they embody, far beyond the scope of any intellectual resolve, a refusal to die, a bid to seize eternity from historic annihilation.