Dance of the Wind on a vulnerable, but strong tradition

A few excerpts from Dance of the wind (1997), a film by Rajan Khosa. Karuna Devi, mother of the female singer Pallavi, is at the end of her life. Karuna has been a great and celebrated singer, while her daughter Pallavi though already succesfull is still at the beginning of her career. When Karuna dies, Pallavi played by the famous Indian actress Kitu Gidwani feels she has not completed her mother s training and still lacks a voice of her own, a voice she can maybe find by learning from the guru of he