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Rhythm of a Flower - फूल का छन्द

 

Runtime: 1 hour 21 minutes

Languages: Hindi & Marathi

Director, Screenplay, Editing & Sound: Amit Dutta

Screenplay, Voice & Music: Kuldeep Barve

Animation: Allen Shaw

 

About the film

This animation film takes the single moment of Kumar Gandharva lying on his sick bed and expands it, where his life in music and contemplation moves like a dream. He teaches, writes and sings again, giving voice to the years of silence. Kumar Gandharva, a child prodigy who subsequently became one of the finest and most original geniuses of Indian classical music, was struck by tuberculosis at the height of his abilities. For years, he lay in bed, barred from using his lungs, unsure if he would ever be able to rise or sing again. Meanwhile, his senses were gathering sounds from nature, from distant folk melodies, and from every vibration of life. Sometimes he practiced, singing so softly that it was hardly audible beyond his bed. This film takes this single moment of him lying on his sick bed and expands it, where his life of music and contemplation moves like a dream. When he rises after six years in bed, with only one lung spared, he writes, sings, and teaches again, giving voice to the six long years of silence and bridging the old and new with visionary insights.

 

Open for all

 

Date: 13 June, 2026 (Saturday)

Time: 6:30 PM Onwards

 

Venue: Lecture Hall, L D Museum

*Tea will be served at 6:00 PM

 

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Amit Dutta is a filmmaker and author based in the Kangra Valley, Himachal Pradesh. Born in 1977 in Jammu, he studied film direction at the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII), Pune. His body of work spans over fifty films and several books across fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and children’s literature in Hindi, English, and Dogri.

His films—often blurring boundaries between documentary, fiction, literary adaptation, and visual essay—have been screened at major international festivals such as Venice, Berlin, Toronto, Rotterdam, Oberhausen, and Cinéma du Réel, and showcased at premier museums and archives including MoMA New York, Centre Pompidou Paris, Smithsonian Washington DC, and Tate London. His critically celebrated film Nainsukh was named among the best biopics ever made by The New Yorker. Dutta’s literary work includes the experimental Hindi novel Kaljayi Kambakht (Krishna Baldev Vaid Award), Invisible Webs (as Tagore Fellow at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study), and Gyarah Rupay Ka Fountain Pen, which was included in Tata Trusts’ Parag Honours List. His writings explore themes of memory, attention, and artistic lineage, much like his films.He has received numerous national and international recognitions, including four National Film Awards (India), the Main Prize of the Jury at Oberhausen, the Golden Conch at MIFF, Golden Gate at MAMI, International Film Critics Prize at Oberhausen, Special Mention — Intangible Cultural Heritage Award, Cinéma du Réel, and funding support from CNAP (France) and the Hubert Bals Fund (Netherlands). Retrospectives of his work have been held at institutions such as Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Freer-Sackler Gallery (Smithsonian), Centre Pompidou (Cinéma du Réel), LAC Lugano, and the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art. A former faculty member at FTII and NID, Dutta continues to engage with questions of form, tradition, and perception through his practice. His work is characterized by a search for the universal within the local, and the sublime within the everyday.

 

Kuldeep Barve co-writer & music consultant on Rhythm of a flower, is a musician, teacher, composer and writer based in Pune. He is a faculty for Western Music at FLAME University, Pune and the SPPU (Pune University). While his musical explorations have been mainly in the realm of western classical music, his deep interest and active role in improvised forms of music such as Indian classical music and jazz has immensely influenced his musical thought and oeuvre. He is a founder member of the Pune Guitar Society, an organization dedicated to western classical and jazz guitar. He is also deeply involved in film music and has composed music for films, documentaries and art installations.

 

Allen Shaw the animator on Rhythm of a flower, is a Berlin based Indian artist, animator and storyteller. He was born in 1973 in Munger, Bihar and graduated in communication design with a specialisation in animation film making from the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad. He has illustrated over 25 children's books for various publishers. His life revolves around travelling and sketching and collecting stories from different parts of the world.

 

 

 

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