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Original Film Title: Echoes Of Faith: The Gajan Legacy of Singi
Director’s Name: Ipsita Guha
Writer’s Name: Ipsita Guha
Producer: Ipsita Guha
Country of Origin: India
Country of Filming: India
Language: Bengali
Runtime: 29 minutes 58 seconds
Film Description:
This film is an authentic documentation of one of the most intense traditional festivals of the marginalised Hindu community of Bengal. Set in the rural heart of the Singi village of East Burdawan district, this film on Gajan festival is actually a brief journey of the social mass who had been kept dissociated from the mainstream Vedic Hindu rituals from time immemorial. Through local voices and detailed visuals, this ground level story telling is actually a testimonial for future generations who will come to know about these people and how did they pave their own path to the main stream Hindu God Shiva by walking twenty-six kilometre barefoot in a single day.
Fast urbanisation, economic intolerance, Government policies against irrational physical penance or superstitions; everything leads to the eventual narrowing down of the festival activities. Nowadays it is getting confined only within the periphery of few villages of three or four districts of Bengal. Observational story telling and personal narratives of this film aim to reveal Gajan as much more than a festival; rather it is a living expression of a collective identity.