Dhrupad the Call of the Deep is a documentary film on Dhrupad - the ancient classical court and temple music gernre of North India, featuring as its main protagonists Dagar family patriarch Ustad Rahim Fahimuddin Dagar and Dhrupad singer Ashish Sankrityayan. The film documents the process of oral transmission of traditional knowledge and focuses on the complex linkages between Dhrupad and Indian spiritual and philosophical thought, literature, art and history and also on the relevance of Dhrupad in the context of the vast globalizing influences sweeping through India now. The film has a total duration of about 100 mins.
Dhrupad the Call of the Deep - Documentary Film on Dhrupad
Sunset Raga Marwa
Ustad Rahim Fahimuddin Dagar at the Qutub Minar
Ustad Rahim Fahimuddin  Dagar
Pressing Feet
Ustad Rahim Fahimuddin Dagar Reading Manuscript
Ustad Rahim Fahimuddin Dagar Tuning Tanpura
Initiation  Ceremony Ustad Rahim Fahimuddin  Dagar, Ashish Sankrityayan
Worshipper Burning Ghat Varanasi
Ustad R F Dagar singing

 

 

Lake Pichola Udaipur
Temple Pillars Qutub Minar Complex Delhi
Ustad Rahim Fahimuddin  Dagar
fakir gives blessings after receiving alms
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