LOK VIRASAT
- December 2, 2020
- Posted by: OptimizeIAS Team
- Category: DPN Topics
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Subject: Culture
Context: Films Division (FD) has organised Lok Virasat, a festival of films on folk art and painting.
Concept:
- An exclusive bouquet of documentary films on folk art and paintings – Lok Virasat – is being showcased on FD website and You Tube channel.
- The films being streamed include:
- The Kingdom of God , on the great Indian heritage of art and culture with focus on various folk art traditions,
- Bhavai– Fading Memories, a film on Bhavai – a folk art of Gujarat,
- Naman – Khele, a film on the ancient folk art performed in Ratnagiri,
- SahiJata, The Fusion Cult, a film on the unique fusion of muscle and music in the form of folk art on the back-drop of the ancient Orissa town of Puri.
- Therukoothu : Dancing For Life , a film depicting the age old Tamil folk art.