Join us at Arthshila Ahmedabad for the screening of ‘Phool Ka Channd’, directed by Amit Dutta and produced by Takshila Educational Society & The Raza Foundation.

DETAILS:
Time: 6.30 pm
Run Time: 81 mins
Language: Hindi, Marathi (English subtitles)

About the Film:

Kumar Gandharav, 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.

To capture the interiority of his mind, Amit Dutta used animation and collaborated with Allen Shaw, a children’s book illustrator, because he wanted to engage with the complexity of the artist’s life and ideas while maintaining the simplicity and innocence of his being; to give form to that delicate moment between the simple and the sublime.

Venue: Arthshila Ahmedabad
2-G, Opposite Ahmedabad Management Association, Panjrapol, Ambawadi – 380015.