THE TEXTURE OF THOUGHT

Amit Dutta's animated documentary on the life of classical singer Kumar Gandharva eschews a conventional narrative structure

- Devarsi Ghosh

Experimental filmmaker Amit Dutta is a workhorse. His new film, Rhythm of a Flower, an 81-minute animated biopic of singing legend Kumar Gandharva, was part of the International Film Festival Rotterdam in February, after winning the Golden Gateway Award at the Mumbai Film Festival last year. In March, Stream-Story, Dutta's documentary on the streams of the Kangra Valley in Himachal Pradesh, and how they sustain the life and culture of the locals, premiered at the Cinéma du Réel in Paris. The same month, a book of Dutta's Dogri-language poems, translated into English, was published. A book of letters on film-making for children in Hindi and an English-language children's book are on the way.