BANNUBHAI SHEHNAIWALA (NID FVC 2005)

NID FVC STUDENT FILM
Director - Adityan M
Faculty Guide - S B Saksena
Year of production - 2005
SYNOPSIS: The film is an observational documentary on Bannubhai, an ageing shehnai player, through the course of a day and tries to capture his routine that is now his life.He has been playing the shehnai and drums in the Nahabat Khana overlooking the Badshah's Tomb outside the Jama Masjid in Ahmedabad for the last sixty years. In spite of not knowing how to play the shehnai very well, Bannubhai tries to keep a 700 year old tradition alive.
This film was screened as a part of the NID Film & Video Retrospective at ALPAVIRAMA 2011 South Asian Short & Documentary Film Festival. (www.nid.edu/alpavirama/index.html)