Written by Ishita Sengupta |Updated: August 8, 2018 1:20:24 am
Hanging on a Thread
A documentary sheds light on the dying art of weaving in Varanasi- how the practicing artisans took pride in it, and now with the passage of time, the looms, neatly kept, lie untouched.
Every weaver is an artist and they need patrons to appreciate their art — this and the increasing lack of it form the crux of the documentary, Bunkar — The Last of the Varanasi Weavers, the trailer of which released yesterday, on the occasion of National Handloom Day. The film, through a series of interviews of weavers and craftsmen, brings forth how with mechanisation, the art of handloom is slowly dying in Varanasi, compelling artisans to give up their craft and resort to other vocations.
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