Kalpana (1948 film)
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| Directed by | Uday Shankar |
| Produced by | Uday Shankar |
| Written by | Uday Shankar |
| Starring | Uday Shankar Amala Shankar |
| Music by | Vishnudas Shirali |
| Cinematography | K. Ramnoth |
| Edited by | N. K. Gopal [1] |
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Production
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Uday Shankar Production
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Running time
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160 min |
| Country | India |
| Language | Hindi |
Kalpana (English title: Imagination) is a Hindi film featuring a dance-drama, written and directed by noted dancer, Uday Shankar, in 1948. It is his only film. The story revolves around a young dancer’s dream of setting up a dance academy, a reflection Shankar's own academy, which he founded at Almora.[2] It starred Uday Shankar and his wife Amala Shankar as leads and 17-year-old actress Padmini making her screen debut.[3][4]
Kalpana was the first film to present an Indian classical dancer in the leading role, and was entirely shot as a dance ballet and a fantasy.[5][6]
It was shown at the International Film Festival of India (IFFI-Goa) (2008), as a part of the section ‘Treasures from NFAI’ (National Film Archive of India) with other "rare gems" from the archives.[7]
Cast
- Lakshmi Kanta - Kamini
- Usha Kiran
- Amala Shankar - Uma
- Uday Shankar - Udayan
- Padmini
Crew
- Production design: A.K. Sekhar
Production
Kalpana was shot at Gemini Studios over five years and inspired the 1948 Tamil film, Chandralekha by S. S. Vasan, which was shot at the same studio and featured the song with dancers over large drum sequence; it was a major success unlike Kalpana which did not do well at the box office.[8][9]
Restoration
In 2009, the film process of digital restoration was taken up by NFAI in collaboration with France-based Thomson Foundation.[10] In 2010, it was being restored by the World Cinema Foundation (director Martin Scorsese is a founding member).[11][12]
References
- ↑ Kalpana at the British Film Institute's Film and TV Database
- ↑ Synopsis British Film Institute.
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