Synopsis for the Film

Winner of the Certificate of Merit at MIFF 2008 for its fascinating visuals and exceptional use of the Dhrupad, Director Janglay’s Raga of the River Narmada is cinema just as it is a poem as the many moods, colors and shapes of the Narmada are juxtaposed with a traditional Dhrupad recitation. Like a Dhrupad melody, with its single melodic line and complex framework of ragas, the river too is a single entity which takes on various incarnations from the playful gush of the streams to the turbulence of the rapids to the ethereal calm of its union with the sea. The river evokes the song that echoes over the valleys and plains, setting tune to life itself, and the song plays on and the river flows endlessly, each an ancient entity with a life of its own but joined together in tradition, in culture, in nature.

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