Khayal Darpan

Review on Khayal Darpan in the Marathi newspaper Sakal, by Dr.Anmol Kothadia

2011-08-19T21:19:00.000-07:00

A new review of the film in "Asian Music" journal

2010-01-24T01:28:00.000-08:00

Asian Music, Volume 41, Number 1, Winter/Spring 2010

E-ISSN: 1553-5630 Print ISSN: 0044-9202

DOI: 10.1353/amu.0.0050

Edward O. Henry
Khayal Darpan: An Indian Filmmaker Journeys through Classical Music in Pakistan (review)
Asian Music - Volume 41, Number 1, Winter/Spring 2010, pp. 184-185

University of Texas Press

http://muse.jhu.edu/login?uri=/journals/asian_music/v041/41.1.henry.html

RAPPEL_Conf. EPHE EA 2719_Film Khayal Darpan de Yousuf SAEED_21.01.09_18h-20h EPHE (CALVIN)

2009-01-20T20:32:00.000-08:00

Ministère de l’Enseignement Supérieur et de la Recherche
ÉCOLE PRATIQUE DES HAUTES ÉTUDES
SECTION DES SCIENCES HISTORIQUES ET PHILOLOGIQUES
Présidence et Service de la Scolarité, 46 rue de Lille, 75007 Paris
A la Sorbonne, 45-47 rue des Écoles, 75005 Paris
Téléphone : 01.40.46.31.25 - Télécopie : 01.40.46.31.39
www.ephe.fr

Équipe EA 2719

INDE MÉDIÉVALE ET MODERNE : TEXTES ET CONTEXTES

Paris, 15 janvier 2009

Chers collègues et amis,
Dans le cadre des travaux de l’équipe EA 2719 sur le thème de recherche « Apprentissage et transmission des savoirs et des savoir-faire artistiques en Asie du Sud », nous vous convions à une projection du film

"Khayal Darpan: A Mirror of Imagination
An Indian Filmaker Journeys Through Classical Music in Pakistan"

de Yousuf SAEED, cinéaste documentariste, New Delhi*
Mercredi 21 janvier 2009, de 18h à 20h, à l’EPHE (Calvin),
au Centre Albert-Châtelet, 6-8, rue Jean Calvin, 75005 Paris, 7e étage, salle C.

Merci à Yousuf Saeed d’avoir autorisé une projection publique de la deuxième édition de son film (100 min., 2008) en son absence. Pour plus d’informations sur le film Khayal Darpan, le travail du cinéaste et des comptes-rendus de projections, cf. www.khayaldarpan.info.

Au plaisir de vous revoir,

F. ‘Nalini’ Delvoye, Directeur d’études et responsable de l’équipe EPHE EA 2719

Workshop on Hindustani Music and Partition

2008-07-05T08:06:00.000-07:00

A Workshop on the Impact of the 1947 Partition on the Classical Music of South Asia
22 and 23 August 2008, New Delhi

Asian Scholarship Foundation, Bangkok, and Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, invite scholars, musicians, students and enthusiasts of Hindustani classical music to participate and contribute to an 2-day workshop of dialogue and music-making where we expect to have several musicians and scholars from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. If you have been involved in a unique research or documentation about the development of classical music in the post-1947 South Asia, and would like to share your work or findings with others, kindly send us the details. Or if you are simply interested in this theme, you are welcome to join us in August in an informal discussion.

The idea for this workshop evolved out of a larger research and documentation work carried out by the Delhi-based filmmaker and researcher, Yousuf Saeed, who spent a few months in Pakistan in 2005 for a fellowship on the music of South Asia. Yousuf's work culminated in a research paper as well as a feature-length documentary film Khayal Darpan that has been widely screened, initiating a dialogue about concerns such as the survival of classical music and national identity in South Asia. The August workshop is part of a series of such dialogues which would be carried out in different parts of South Asia. We hope to bring together scholars, musicians, historians, and students of music and cultural studies in an informal setting to reflect upon the various issues in the study of music emerging in the context of modernity. Some of the following themes or panels would form a part of this workshop:

1. Cultural identity and the making of nations
2. Partition and the music gharana narratives
3. Traditional knowledge-transmision affected by the border
4. Between popular and elite: Music adapting to the changing audience

More details about these panels and the expected scholars/musicians can be seen at the following website. Further details would also be posted on many mailing lists. We are also hoping to arrange a music concert or two with the Pakistani and Bangladeshi artists in Delhi
and/or elsewhere.

http://www.ektaramu sic.com/workshop08.html

There is no charge for attending or participating in the workshop. However, you may like to inform us in advance about your attending as the seats are limited.

Yousuf Saeed

Incorrect News Report in Daily Times, Karachi, about a "Denied Visa"

2007-12-04T19:56:00.000-08:00

On 26th November 2007, the Daily Times, Karachi, published a story titled "Indian who made documentary on Pakistani classical music denied visa" (written by Arif Aligi). This story was about my documentary film Khayal Darpan which was screened on 24th Nov at an NGO called Sampurna in Karachi. The title of the news is totally misleading since I was never supposed to visit Karachi this time nor had I applied for the Pakistani visa in the recent times. The reporter of the Daily Times presumed or was given wrong impression that I didn't visit since I couldn't get visa. Although he phoned me to interview about the film, but never bothered to clarify about the visa. This incorrect news comes not only at a politically sensitive time, but has also been quoted verbatim by a large number of newspapers in India (and some abroad) including Indian Express, the Times of India, The Hindu, Dainik Jagran (Hindi), Thai Times, DNA, The Telegraph, and so on. Some of them even added their own spicy comments, including the fact that "an Indian filmmaker who rejuvinated the dying Pakistani music denied visa"! All this has been extremely embarrasing and agonizing for me. It even puts my future prospects of applying for the Pakistani visa and visiting the country in jeopardy. And besides my frustation, why should one even blame the government authorities for something they didn't do.

My film is about music and culture and I have no intentions to create any controversies. Hence, I request the Daily Times to issue a corrigendum about this serious error urgently, and correct this mistakes on its online edition, as well as issue a notification to all the other periodicals or news agencies who have quoted this story to rectify the mistake. I hope that the reporter of the Daily Times would act more responsibly the next time.

Yousuf Saeed

KD in Glasgow, at Pakistan Film Festival 2007

2007-11-06T06:28:00.000-08:00

You are invited to attend the screening of the documentry "Khayal Darpan" in Glasgow, at Pakistan Film Festival 2007

on 10th November, 2007: between 5:30pm – 9:30pm
during "Documentaries and Pakistan’s Music Scene"
at Gilmorehill G12 Cinema, Univerity of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK
during Duseri Dharkan - Pakistani Film Festival 2007.
Entrance: Free – Requires Advance Bookings

Khayal Darpan has been directed by a Delhi-based filmmaker, Yousuf Saeed

So far, Khayal Darpan has been an official entry at:
- Hong Kong International Film Festival 2007 - Hong Kong
- Film South Asia Kathmandu 2007 - Nepal

- Lyon Asian Film Festival 2007 - France

- Indo-American Arts Council Film Festival 2007 – New York

- World Performing Arts Festival 2006 - Lahore

- JDCA Film Festival on Arts and Artists 2006 - Orissa

- BYOFF, Puri 2006 - Orissa

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Detailed schedule and brochure about Pakistani Film Festival with the write-up is now available on website http://www.pakistanifilmfest.com

KD in New York, Kathmandu, and Mumbai

2007-10-07T02:30:00.000-07:00

If you are in New York, or have friends there who may be interested, you may like to attend the screening of the documentary film Khayal Darpan, as part of a film festival organized by the Indo-American Arts Council, to be held between November 7 -11, 2007.
"Khayal Darpan" (100 mins) Language: Urdu/Hindi, with English subtitles
At the Mahindra IAAC Film Festival Saturday November 10, 2007 at 8.30 PM
at AMC Loews, 19th Street & Broadway, New York
More details about the film: www.khayaldarpan.info
More details about the festival:http://www.iaac.us/newsletter/newsletter_july2007.htm

For those in Kathmandu for Film South Asia, and haven't yet seen my film, I invite you to watch Khayal Darpan on 11 October at 4 pm in Hall B of Kumari Cinema (Kamal Pokhari), Kathmandu More details about the festival athttp://www.himalass ociation. org/fsa

In Mumbai, watch Khayal Darpan on 24 Oct. (10 am) at Sophia College, and on 25th October at 6:30 pm at Little Theatre, NCPA, Mumbai http://www.ncpamumbai.com/whatson/whatson.asp

A review in The Hindustan Times, Delhi

2007-05-05T06:25:00.000-07:00

January 2007 schedule of Grey Zone Film Club

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January 2007 schedule of Grey Zone Film Club
http://greyzonefilmclub.blogspot.com

India International Centre, Delhi, presents Khayal Darpan

2006-12-19T04:12:00.000-08:00

Khayal Darpan to be screened at IIC, Delhi, on December 23, 2006 (Saturday) at 6:30 pm.
http://www.iicdelhi.nic.in/program/program_detail.asp?ProgId=1716&CatgId=3

Review of Khayal Darpan in Tehelka, Delhi

2006-12-09T05:24:00.000-08:00

That strain again, and its dying fall
A review by Shivam Vij (Tehelka, New Delhi)
http://www.tehelka.com/story_main23.asp?filename=hub121606That_strain.asp

Also see the same at
The Mirror Ain’t Cracked By Shivam Vij
http://www.shivamvij.com/2006/12/the-mirror-aint-cracked.html

Review on Khayal Darpan in ET, Delhi

2006-11-25T23:39:00.000-08:00

Manoj Nair writes a review on Khayal Darpan in Economic Times
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/576625.cms
Cracks in the mirror of imagination

Yousuf Saeed in Boston University, Sept.2006

2006-09-23T11:42:00.000-07:00

Indian films show students Asian culture - News

Video clip of "Khayal Darpan"

2006-09-16T09:28:00.000-07:00


Here is a short promotional video of the documentary film KHAYAL DARPAN, about classical music in Pakistan.

Khayal Darpan: A Mirror of Imagination

2006-09-02T04:25:00.000-07:00

An Indian Filmmaker Journeys Through Classical Music in Pakistan: A Musical Documentary Film on DVD

Duration: 105 minutes
Language: Urdu/Hindi with English subtitles

Delhi-based filmmaker, Yousuf Saeed, spent over 6 months in Pakistan as part of a research fellowship to survey the classical music traditions. Traveling in Lahore, Karachi and Islamabad - interviewing musicians and scholars, attending music concerts, and observing the teaching of music in various institutions, Yousuf not only managed to document some of the surviving practitioners and patrons of art music, but also raised many vital questions about cultural identity, nationalism, legitimacy of music in Islam, Pakistan’s popular culture and its affairs with India, and the survival of classical music itself in South Asia. This study resulted in a feature-length documentary film, featuring some well-known as well as many lesser known but talented musicians of Pakistan.

Some of the artists and scholars featured in the film are Ustad Fateh Ali Khan, Ghulam Hasan Shaggan, Naseeruddin Sami, Badruzzaman, Sharafat Ali, Sarah Zaman, Raza Kazim, and Sarwat Ali, among others.

Yousuf Saeed has been making documentary films since 1990 for various channels and organizations on topics ranging from science and technology to arts and culture. His most recent short films Basant, Inside Ladakh, and The Train to Heaven have been shown at various Indian and international film festivals, academic venues and TV channels.

The film Khayal Darpan is available at www.ektara.org
Also see Yousuf's website: Amir Khusrau's Garden of Cultural Plurality at www.alif-india.com