A knock at the locked door
Sangeet Natak Akademi’s new documentary attempts to catch sight of India’s own Greta Garbo, the reclusive musician and teacher Annapurna Devi, who passed away last year.
In the mysterious world of music, there are two kinds of musicians — the ones who follow the rigorous journey of learning the artform in search of applause, appreciation and that moment of wah from the listeners, and those who only care about finding the spirituality of the art form through the contours of notes and rhythm. Both are likely to worship the towering space of learning from a guru. They may not be better than each other in terms of the knowledge they harbour, but the application of that wisdom, sometimes, can change matters asymmetrically. In the latter, where music found in one’s own loneliness is the foundation of daily life, the result is likely to stumble upon a metaphysical effect. Like the inward, brooding notes of a surbahar (the bass sitar), a rare instrument, that had once found musician Annapurna Devi in the first half of the 20th century.
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