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Screening - Dance Of Love (Sringaram)

ArcLight Cinemas
6360 Sunset Blvd
Hollywood, CA 90028

India/2005/117 min/35mm 

Director: Sharada Ramanathan
 Producer: Madhu Ambat
Screenwriter: Indira Sounderrajan
Cinematographer: Madhu Ambat
Production Designer: Thota Tharani
Editor: Sreekar Prasad
Sound Editor: Lakshmi Narayanan
Choreographer: Saroj Khan
Music: Padma Bhushan Lalgudi G. Jayaraman
Cast: Aditi Rao Hydari, Manoj K. Jayan, Hamsa Moily, Sashikumar 

Devadasis have occupied a position of privilege under the protection of the state and served as the main repositories of traditional arts, particularly dance and music since the 10 th Century. In 1920s Tamil Nadu, Madhura becomes the principal devadasi of her village temple. By the prevailing system, she also becomes mistress to the local princely landlord, the Mirasu. She accepts her symbolic but powerless position in society until she witnesses the unreasonable demands and vagrant abuses of power the Mirasu wields.

In her directorial debut, Sharada Ramanathan refutes the idea of feminism as a western construct by illustrating how women of yore may have utilized the arts as a subversive route towards emancipation.

Tamil (English subtitles)


(310) 364-4403

www.indianfilmfestival.org




22 Apr 06
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

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