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Like Here Like There (So Heddan So Hoddan)| 51mins
Director: ANJALI MONTEIRO AND K.P. JAYASANKAR | Producer: PSBT
Focus Years: 2011 | Country: India
Subject Tags: asia, creativity, india, inter-cultural relations, non-violence, peace, spiritual awareness
Quality Tags: Optimistic, Slow, Activating, Harmonizing
Synopsis:
Shah Abdul Latif Bhitai, a medieval Sufi poet, is an iconic figure in the cultural history of Sindh. Bhitai’s Shah Ji Risalo is a remarkable collection of poems which are sung by many communities in Kachchh (Kutch) and across the border in Sindh (now in Pakistan). Umar Haji Suleiman of Abdasa, in Kutch, Gujarat, is a self taught Sufi scholar; once a cattle herder, now a farmer, he lives his life through the poetry of Bhitai. Umar’s cousin, Mustafa Jatt sings the Bheths of Bhitai. He is accompanied on the Surando, by his cousin Usman Jatt. Usman is a truck driver, who owns and plays one of the last surviving surandos in the region. The surando is a peacock shaped, five-stringed instrument from Sindh. The film explores the life worlds of the three cousins, their families and the Fakirani Jat community to which they belong. Before the Partition, the Maldhari (pastoralist) Jatts moved freely across the Rann, between Sindh (now in Pakistan) and Kutch. As pastoral ways of living have given way to settlement, borders and industrialisation, the older generation struggles to keep alive the rich syncretic legacy of Shah Bhitai, which celebrates diversity and non-difference, suffering and transcendence, transience and survival.
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