This year the theme was ‘Celebrating and Reminiscing Masters’ who
recently passed away - Jehangir Sabavala, MF Hussain, Dashrath Patel,
Rudra Veena player Ustad Asad Ali Khan, who was Jatin’s and my neighbor
at Asiad Village, BC Sanyal saab, Mani Kaul. Documentary films on
them and Mai Kaul’s films, Nandan Saxena and his wife Kavita Saxena’s
films on poetry, Renuka George’s film on Ustad Asad Ali Khan, Navroz
Contractor’s film on Zadu (brooms), Arun Khopkar’s on Jehangir Sabavala -
Absence of Colours - one on Hussain when he was in Dubai and painters
from India went there to see him, film made by Bidisha Ray Das, were
screened and were attended by large crowds.
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