Toto Funds the Arts
& the Bangalore International Centre
are pleased to invite you to the online screening of
Surabhi Sharma's Phir Se Samm Pe Aana (Returning to the First Beat) from Thursday to Sunday (25-28 June 2020)
It can be viewed anytime on these days by clicking on this link
You can register for the panel discussion between Surabhi Sharma, Tejaswini Niranjana and Bindhumalini Narayanaswamy on Sunday, 28 June, 6:00 pm by clicking on this link:
We hope you will all join us for this screening and panel discussion.
About Phir Se Samm Pe Aana
(Directed by Surabhi Sharma / 85 mins / 2017 / English subtitles)
The metropolitan transformation of Bombay in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries kept time with changes in the practice and pedagogy of Hindustani classical music in the city. With the decline of the princely states, traditional systems of patronage began to unravel. Musicians, like other artists, began to gravitate to the rapidly growing colonial city of Bombay, in search of new sponsors. This led, in turn, to the formation of a distinctive audience for Hindustani sangeet in the city – one not limited to princely courts and the exclusive homes of the aristocracy. Girgaon was a part of the native town of the colonial city and a key neighbourhood where the singers, the patrons and the audiences lived.
Phir se samm pe aana strives to experience the space for Hindustani classical music in the city. The film revisits the sites clustered in and around Girgaon where music was taught and performed. It seeks to understand the musical legacy of this neighbourhood, even as it reimagines the documentary mode. This film ‘listens’ to architectural structures to reflect on the deep history of this practice. In narrativising the love of music that took shape in this neighbourhood, it also seeks to convey ‘film time’ rather than evoke a time past or record the present. The film evokes repetition and cyclical time to imagine a narrative on music. Phir se…is an opportunity to experience an interior, almost intimate practice of the musical form.
This film emerged from a research project aimed at understanding Hindustani classical music as part of the intangible urban history of the metropolis of Bombay/Mumbai. The project is a collaboration between Dr. Tejaswini Niranjana and Surabhi Sharma. Through the research phase, a series of interviews were produced that are available on the online archive, Pad.ma
About Surabhi Sharma
Surabhi has been an independent filmmaker since 2000. Her feature-length documentaries, short fiction films and video installations engage with cities in transition using the lens of labour, music, and migration. Surabhi’s films have been screened and awarded at international film festivals, some among them being the Dubai International Film Festival, Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival and the MAMI Mumbai Film Festival. Her video installations have been exhibited at nGbK, Berlin, Shenzhen and Hong Kong Bi-city Biennale of Urbanism and Architecture and the 11th Shanghai Biennale. Her films have been recognised and awarded at the 8th Asia Pacific Screen Awards, Brisbane 2016; Eco-Cinema, Greece 2003 (The Ramsar-Medwet Award), Film South Asia, Kathmandu 2001; Karachi Film Festival 2002; and The Festival of Three Continents, Buenos Aires 2002. She is currently teaching in the Film and New Media Program at the New York University Abu Dhabi.
About Tejaswini Niranjana
Tejaswini is currently Professor and Head, Department of Cultural Studies, Lingnan University,
Hong Kong, and Visiting Professor with the School of Arts and Sciences, Ahmedabad University. She is the author of Siting Translation: History, Post-Structuralism and the Colonial Context and Mobilizing India: Women, Music and Migration between India and Trinidad. Among her edited volumes is Genealogies of the Asian Present: Situating Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, with Wang Xiaoming. Her collection of essays in Chinese, Nationalism Refigured, was re-issued in 2019.
About Bindhumalini Narayanaswamy
Bindhumalini is a singer, composer and graphic designer. Trained in both Carnatic and Hindustani classical music forms, Bindhu has gone beyond her roots to explore other forms and traditions in search of what she believes is the pure, soul-stirring power of music. Suno Bhai is her first music album created in collaboration with Vedanth Bharadwaj. She has directed music for both feature and documentary films such as Harikatha Prasanaga, Nathicharami, Conversations at the Kumbh, Surey Number Zero and Coral Woman. She and Vedanth co-directed music for the Tamil film Aruvi. Bindhumalini is also part of collaborations like The Threshold, Khusrau ke rang, Akath Kahani and Saath-Saath.
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