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Scribbles on Akka / script & direction, Madhusree Dutta.
- Title
- Scribbles on Akka / script & direction, Madhusree Dutta.
- Publication
- Mumbai : Majlis Productions, 2000.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Moving image | Request in advance | DVD | Off-site |
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- Description
- 1 videodisc of 1 (DVD) (approximately 60 min.) : sound, color; 4 3/4 in.
- Summary
- Scribbles on Akka is a short film on the life and work of the 12th century saint poet, Mahadevi Akka; Her radical poems, written with the female body as a metaphor, have been composed and picturised in contemporary musical language; Mahadevi, famed as Akka, elder sister, while leaving the domestic arena in search of God, also abandoned modesty and clothing; The film explores the meaning of this denial through the work of contemporary artists and writers and testimonies of ordinary folks who nurtured her image through centuries in their folklores and oral literature; A celebration of rebellion, feminity and legacy down nine hundred years.
- Alternative Title
- On identity, rebellion, Bhakti
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Biography.
- Documentary television programs.
- Note
- Copyright notice on disc: Majlis.
- Summary taken from Majlis website.
- Credits (note)
- Song composition, Ilyaraja ; camera, Avijit Mukul Kishor, R V Ramani ; editing, Shyamal Karmakar ; background music, Shantanu Maitra.
- Performer (note)
- Main artistes, Seema Biswas, Sabitri Heisnam, Harish Khanna.
- Language (note)
- In Kannada and Hindi with English subtitles.
- Awards (note)
- Awarded, National Award for Best Anthropological Film, 2001 ; Best script award at Shanghai International Film Festival, IDPA award.
- LCCN
- 2016317591
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries