You can watch the entire documentary on Youtube; follow this link:
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=studiokabooka&oq=studiokabooka&gs_l=youtube.12...0.0.0.13008.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0..0.0...0.0...1ac.
The Curse of Talakad was screened at several film festivals;
- Film South Asia ’05 (Kathmandu, Nepal)
- The International Film and Video Festival (Oregon, USA),
- XVIII International Festival of Archaeological Films (Rovereto, Italy)
- VII International Archaeology Film Festival (Bidasoa, Spain)
- AGON, 6th International Meeting of Archaeological Film of the Mediterranean Area (Greece)
- Screenings were also held at National Institute for Advanced Studies (NIAS, Bangalore), Suchitra Film Society, Bangalore International Centre and Bangalore Club.
Watch it and let me know what you think.
Impressive effort. Great illustrations and animated diagrams.
ReplyDeleteThe rational explanations, painstaking extractions from records and gazettes, the fact of environmental changes due to the dam, the reasons for the sand blowing over talakad, and the piecing together of two separate legends is strikingly new.
The 3 stanzas of the curse themselves are remarkable for their connection of 2 natural and 1 human phenomenon. That it may have been composed as part of politics is intriguing. However, the coincidence of the curse of a drowning woman and the sand dunes of talakad makes it a still unexplainable myth.
Most things can be explained as natural phenomena. But the mythic part is not invalid on that account. It just belongs to a different dimension - spirit influencing matter.