| | 1 | '''Bhavantarana''' |
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| | 4 | 1991 63’ col Oriya |
| | 5 | d/s Kumar Shahani pc Bombay |
| | 6 | Cinematograph c Alok Upadhyay |
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| | 9 | A spectacular part-fictional documentary on |
| | 10 | India’s famous Odissi dance, seen via its |
| | 11 | foremost living exponent, Guru Kelucharan |
| | 12 | Mahapatra. The film shows how living |
| | 13 | traditions and modes of social initiation can |
| | 14 | turn into classical forms. Described by the |
| | 15 | director as a film ‘about hunger’, it returns the |
| | 16 | dance to both the labour that it celebrates and |
| | 17 | the improvisations that continue to defy |
| | 18 | codification and control. Many of the dances, |
| | 19 | including the spectacular Navarasa sequence |
| | 20 | at the end, were choreographed specially for |
| | 21 | the cinema. |
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| | 23 | [[Film]] |