Note Extraordinaire (Bhinna Shadja)

(70 min; 2011; dvd; English & with subtitles)
Directors: Amol Palekar and Sandhya Gokhale
Produced by Public Diplomacy Division, Ministry of External Affairs

Film on the unparalleled contributions of Kishori Amonkar to Indian classical music; it is also an exploration of the larger debates on the nature of art itself. The film presents an accessible portrait of a pensive, creative artist whose life has been sublimated to and consumed by her art