Featuring biographical documentaries, a four-day Film Festival ‘Vridanta’ is being organised at Bharat Bhawan. The festival began here on Thursday at Abhirang Hall, Bharat Bhawan with the screening of a documentary MS Subbulakshmi. The festival would conclude on June 23.
On the first day of the festival a long documentary on the lifespan of a noted Carnatic Singer MS Subbulakshmi was screened at Abhirang Auditorium. The movie was directed by V Raj Gopal that showcases the voyage of Subbulakshmi turning into a renowned Carnatic singer with the running time of 113 minutes.
The movie covers almost all the major events of her lifespan. Noticeably, she was the first musician ever to be awarded the Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian honour. She is the first Indian musician to receive the Ramon Magsaysay award, in 1974. Many artists and music directors considered Subbulakshmi as the leading exponent of classical and semi-classical songs.
Organised under Chhavi series of classical cinema the festival would screen around 10 movies. While talking to The Pioneer, in-charge of Chhavi series of classical movies Narendra Rai said, “For the past four years we are organising this four day film festival and have received a huge response by the audiences. Further, we aim to screen only biographical movies or documentaries which are made to promote Indian culture and traditions.” He further said that only one movie was screened on the first day of the as it was of the longest duration out of the 20 documentaries.
The festival is all about ‘Art Discipline’ that includes great and known personalities in painting, music and other art forms.
The movies that show the purity of music, dance and creations of legendary personalities would be screened under four-day festival. In short, this film festival showcases colours of the country in short documentaries, he added.