Film Screening: The Other Song by Saba Dewan
Filmmaking Workshops
From: James Beveridge Media Resource Centre <mrc....@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 4:29 PM
Subject: Invitation
To:
Presents
"The Other Song”
by
SABA DEWAN
On November 20, 2009 at 3:00 p.m
at the JB MRC ROOM, New Building Second Floor (New Building) AJK MCRC
Jamia Millia Islamia
The Other Song (2009) is a journey in search of a forgotten song by the famous Rasoolan Bai that leads to the uncovering of histories, memories and fragments of songs that had long been banished into oblivion. The film concludes Saba Dewan’s trilogy of films on stigmatized women and deals with the art and lives of tawaifs (courtesans).
Awarded Mecenat prize for best documentary at the Pusan International Film Festival, 2009
Saba Dewan is an independent filmmaker whose work has focused on communalism, gender, sexuality and culture. Her notable films include Dharmayuddha (Holy War, 1989), Nasoor (Festering Wound, 1990), Barf (Snow, 1994), Khel (The Play, 1996) and Sita’s Family (2001). The two earlier films in the trilogy are Delhi –Mumbai – Delhi (2006) on the lives of bar dancers and Naach (The Dance, 2008) on the lives of women who dance in rural fairs. Saba Dewan is also a Graduate of the AJK MCRC.