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Cannes Film Festival 2011: Sound of Heaven plays for IDream internationally

India’s IDream Independent Pictures has picked up international rights to biopic Sound of Heaven, about the iconic actor and female impersonator Bal Gandharva. The Marathi-language film is directed by Ravindra Harishchandra and produced by veteran art director and production designer Nitin Chandrakant Desai.
IDream Independent Pictures are the International Sales Agent for the film. IDream is India's leading Sales Agent who specializes in Independent Indian films. They have sold their films in 56 territories and represent 25 Producers.

Synopsis:
Bal Gandharva (Sound of Heaven: The Story of Bal Gandharva) is a richly mounted, Indian musical, period film on the incredible actor-singer-female impersonator Bal Gandharva (1888-1967), set in the early years of Indian theatre. The film has historic resonances and gives remarkable insights into how today's Indian cinema and Bollywood musicals derived their song routines, lavish spectacles and melodrama from Indian musical theatre and epics—entirely independent of Hollywood. It is an inspiring portrait of Bal Gandharva, a cross-dressing, singing icon of the sangeet natak (musical theatre) tradition. Women were not allowed to perform onstage then, and Bal Gandharva's singing and female impersonations in beautiful saris, jewellery and mannerisms were all the rage, and his songs are sung in India even today. Born Narayan Shripad Rajhans, he was given the title 'Bal Gandharva' ('Little Singer from Heaven'). A memorable portrait.

 

   
   
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