Nainsukh

India, Switzerland

2010

80 Min

Color

Dogri, Kangri

Currently 4.6/5 Stars.
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SCR Amit Dutta, Eberhard Fischer, Ayswarya Sankaranarayanan

CAST Manish Soni, Nitin Goel, K. Rajesh, Sriniwas Joshi, Pushpendra Singh, Yamini Joshi, Sat Salarwi, Mohan Singh, Anil Raina, Gautam Vyathit, Ankit Raina, Brahmaswaroop Mishra, Shubham Vardhan, Dhananjai Singh, Samarth Dixit, Amit Singh, Ajit Singh Rathore, Vishnu Tailor, Alpana Vajpayee, Sristhi Gupta, Ganesh Gaikwad, Padam, Satinder Singh Bedi, Shringeri Sharma

ED Samarth Dixit, Amit Dutta, Eberhard Fischer

PROD DES Manish Soni, Eberhard Fischer

SOUND Ajit Singh Rathor

Venice (Horizons), Rotterdam (Bright Future), San Francisco (New Directors), Vancouver (Cinema of Our Time)

Synopsis

Nainsukh (born 1710, died 1768) was the greatest eighteenth-century Indian miniaturist, the son of the respected Pandit Seu and brother of the steadfast Manaku. He deviated from his family workshop style by following his interest for Mughal naturalism. At the age of thirty, Nainsukh was invited by Raja Zorawar Singh to his castle in Jasrota. Nainsukh served him until Singh’s untimely death, but was retained as court artist by his young son Raja Balwant Singh. These two dandy-like, non-ruling Rajput princes were connoisseurs who enjoyed spending their limited fortunes on entertaining colourful guests and they shared a refined taste in music, dance and theatrical performances. Nainsukh participated in their artistic amusements… —http://www.labiennale.org

Director

Amit Dutta

The works of Amit Dutta oscillate between Indian mythology and a personal symbolism whose distinctive pictorial language is often compared with that of Sergei Parajanov. Born in 1977, the graduate of the Film and Television Institute of India is already regarded at his young age as one of the prime experimental filmmakers on the Subcontinent. He made a name for himself in Europe as well when Keshkambli was screened in Oberhausen in 2003, and he won the FIPRESCI Award at the festival in 2007 for Kramasha. —kurzfilmtage.de