Siddeshwari - Mani Kaul

A feature style documentary film directed by Mani Kaul, on Siddeshwari Devi, a classical singer. Beautiful and erotic, this film is far ahead of its time.

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Entertainment

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• Mani Kaul
• Siddeshwari Devi

[ambindia]

@ambindia also recorded i mean.

[ambindia]

@75husted the thumri in question was recorded for the akashvani sangit sammelan 1972. this is a doordarshan recording which i never knew existed.

[75husted]

to 1:21:30 for her doordarshan recording -- the superb saiyaan re kaise ke aaoon tere dhigwa.

mani kaul, quite incongruously, superimposed her late recordings on an actress portraying her as a young lady.

i wish doordarshan would release from their archives this siddheshwari devi recording ( and also nissar hussain khan.)

[75husted]

in a 90 min film devoted to one of the two finest thumri singers ever to inhabit india there is about 20-25 minutes of her music here.most of it is well known. go to approx 4:30 for a beautifully sung tappa, to 16:00 for a thumri, to 33:15 for one of gauhar jan's well known 78 rpm recordings ( nahak laaye gavanwa) , 57:25 for another thumri (jaao, jaao , jaaoji), to 1:17:15 for a less well known "hamse najariya pheri"--a real treasure!--but alas just an excerpt.

[nishu9559]

Thanks for sharing this rare movie,please keep sharing this kind of rare movies if anybody has any.Its like making the art immortal and preserving it for the future generation.

Thanks again.