Join us for a screening of 𝗣𝗵𝗼𝗼𝗹 𝗞𝗮 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗱 on 𝗗𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟭𝟵𝘁𝗵 at 𝗔𝗿𝘁𝗵𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗮 𝗦𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗸𝗲𝘁𝗮𝗻.

Kumar Gandharav, a child prodigy who subsequently became one ofbthe finest and most original geniuses of Indian classical music, wasnstruck 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 practised, 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.