FILM TITLE

The Lotus and the Swan

18+

10th May 2024 | 11:00am
Stein Auditorium

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Genre

Documentary

Language
English, Hindi
Duration
71 mins
Director

Nirmal Chander

Festival And Awards

IDSFFK Kerala  2023; DIFF, Dharamshala 2023

Synopsis

"​Hands destined to mould a thing of beauty​".

 

​Thus wrote James Cousins, eminent writer, of a young Sikh potter he met in Japan in 1922.

 

The film celebrates the life and legacy of S​ardar Gurcharan Singh​, the father of studio pottery in India.

Daddyji, as he came to be fondly called, introduced ​the ​underpaid and undervalued craft of pottery to the imagination of the ​Indian ​​mass​es​ with plates, jugs and teapots, ensur​ing that ​colour and beauty ​a​re accessible to everybody.