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Documentary · Ajab Shahar, the Kabir Project · 2015Kabira Khada Bazaar Mein: Journeys with Sacred and Secular Kabir
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Kabira Khada Bazaar Mein: Journeys with Sacred and Secular Kabir

Shabnam Virmani's feature documentary from the Kabir Project, travelling with the folk singers who carry Kabir through Malwa and beyond, and asking what happens to a mystic's words when they are claimed by the sacred and the secular at once. It won the Special Jury Prize at the National Film Awards.

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Shabnam Virmani

Indian documentary maker, singer and cultural worker from Bangalore, artist in residence at the Srishti Institute. In 2002 she founded the Kabir Project, two decades of travelling through Malwa, Rajasthan, Gujarat, Punjab and Pakistan to record the living folk traditions around the fifteenth-century mystic Kabir.

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