Kalpana (English title: Imagination) is a 1948 dance-drama Hindi film written and directed by noted dancer, Uday Shankar, his only film, and story revolves around young dancer’s dream of setting up an academy, a reflection his own, which he eventually did at Almora. [2]. It starred Uday Shankar and his wife Amala Shankar as lead, and a 17-year old actress Padmini making her screen debut [3][4].
Kalpana was the first film to present lead actor as a dancer, that too Indian classical dance, and was entirely shot as a dance ballet and a fantasy [5][6].
The film was show at the International Film Festival of India (IFFI-Goa) (2008), as a part of the section ‘Treasures from NFAI’, that is National Film Archive of India, along with other "rare gems" from the archives [7].
Kalpana was the first film to present lead actor as a dancer, that too Indian classical dance, and was entirely shot as a dance ballet and a fantasy [5][6].
The film was show at the International Film Festival of India (IFFI-Goa) (2008), as a part of the section ‘Treasures from NFAI’, that is National Film Archive of India, along with other "rare gems" from the archives [7].
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Cast
- Lakshmi Kanta - Kamini
- Usha Kiran
- Amala Shankar - Uma
- Uday Shankar - Udayan
- Padmini
Crew
- Production Design: A.K. Sekhar
Production
It was shot at Gemini Studios over a period of five years, and also inspired 1948 Tamil film, Chandralekha by S. S. Vasan, which was also shot at the same studio and also featured the song with dancers over large drum sequence, and was a major success unlike Kalpana which didn't do well at Box Office [8][9]Restoration
In 2009, the film process of its digital restoration was taken up by NFAI in collaboration with France-based Thomson Foundation [10]. Then in 2010, it is being restored by the World Cinema Foundation of which director, Martin Scorsese is a founding member [11][12].References
- ^ Kalpana at the British Film Institute
- ^ Synopsis British Film Institute.
- ^ "Beauty, charm, charisma". The Hindu. Sep 29, 2006. http://www.hindu.com/fr/2006/09/29/stories/2006092900720100.htm.
- ^ Subhash K Jha (24 September , 2004). "What happened to the classical heritage in our films?". Sify.com Movies. http://sify.com/movies/bollywood/fullstory.php?id=13574584.
- ^ "Films featuring dance". Screen (magazine). April 08, 2005. http://www.screenindia.com/old/fullstory.php?content_id=10158.
- ^ "East/west musicals: Play That Back". Outlook (magazine). Jun 26, 2006. http://www.outlookindia.com/article.aspx?231671.
- ^ "NFAI brings its treasures to IFFI-Goa". Ministry of Information and Broadcasting PIB. November 25, 2008. http://pib.nic.in/release/release.asp?relid=45038.
- ^ In Search of Uday Shankar’s Kalpana (1948)
- ^ Armes, Roy (1987). Third World film making and the West. University of California Press. p. 115. ISBN 0520056906. http://books.google.co.in/books?id=qFDnqIwdr8EC&pg=PA114&dq=Kalpana+1948&cd=6#v=onepage&q=Kalpana%201948&f=false.
- ^ "French embassy donates 230 films to NFAI". The Times of India. May 3, 2009. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/msid-4477066,prtpage-1.cms.
- ^ "Uday Shankar dance ballet, Kalpana to be on celluloid". Indiatimes Movies. 03 Feb, 2010. http://movies.indiatimes.com/News-Gossip/News/Uday-Shankar-dance-ballet-Kalpana-to-be-on-celluloid/articleshow/5531590.cms.
- ^ Subhash K Jha (Feb 4, 2010). "Martin Scorsese to reviving Kalpana". The Times of India. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/bollywood/news-interviews/Martin-Scorsese-to-reviving-Kalpana/articleshow/5534189.cms.
| Directed by | Uday Shankar |
|---|---|
| Produced by | Uday Shankar |
| Written by | Uday Shankar |
| Starring | Uday Shankar Amla Shankar |
| Music by | Vishnudas Shirali |
| Cinematography | K. Ramnoth |
| Editing by | N. K. Gopal [1] |
| Studio | Uday Shankar Production |
| Running time | 160 min |
| Country | India |
| Language | Hindi |
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