Rajan Khosa's delicate, contemplative first feature centers on Pallavi, a singer of classical Hidustani music, whose career and personal life are upended when her mother, who is also her teacher, dies. Despite a throat specialist's assurances, she's unable to perform until she connects with a mysterious beggar girl possessed of a beautiful voice, who flits in and out of Pallavi's life like an exquisite, tattered butterfy.

In Time Out London, Geoff Andrew called this subtle meditation on the nature of art "a deceptively simple piece of work, as elegant, sensuous, and resonant as the lovely sounds heard throughout." Dance of the Wind won the Audience Award at the 1997 London Film Festival.

(1997, India, 85 minutes.)
In Hindi with subtitles.

This program is co-sponsored with the Indo-American Film Society and made possible with the cooperation of the National Film Development Corporation of India.