Can we think of an age old tree with sweet fruits without its roots?
Can we think of our country without its history?
Can we have a strong existence without our heritage or past?
“NO” is a simple answer…
Now the question is – how do we know about our history, heritage, past or culture?
There are thousands of artists across our country who have worked hard for centuries to carry forward many stories from our past. These are the stories of our mythology, stories of our history, and stories of our battles and victories that make us proud Indians today! They have narrated these stories through various art forms like music, dance, drama and folk arts.
They have been toiling hard to keep these stories alive and timeless. But do we have time to listen to their own stories? Listen to their own struggles? Their day to day battles for survival?
So, here comes our Gujarati Feature Film “Bhanvar” that talks about such artist. This is a film about an untold story of a Folk Puppeteer in Modern Gujarat who is tired of performing his dying art of folk puppetry, his instable life, poverty and struggle to continue this art with his family with no support from his community, government or any leader. It’s his journey between the dilemma of passion and survival…
The research says that the folk puppetry in Gujarat has its history of over 500 years. These puppeteers have 9 types of art forms to be great narrators and entertainers.
This film is a sincere effort to save this dying art of Folk Puppetry and the decreasing number of Folk Puppeteers… We have been working for two years to create this Fictional Story of one such Puppeteer, Bhanvar Sinh Dhanawat and take this Film to a National and International Level to help sustain and revive our Culture and support these artists through a strong Audio Visual medium who are struggling to fight their own battles to save this slowly vanishing Folk Art. It’s their battle of existence and we plan to keep certain percentage from the profit of this film to help this community and their folk Puppetry.
Our Pledge
We wish to shoot this film in March 2015 and our pre-production is 70% ready. We require total funds of 2 crores of Rupees and we have different platforms to generate these funds.
Crowd Funding
This Project is selected for Crowd Funding Platform by a Swiss Company Fairfundr.com, supported by Swiss Government, IBM and STRIPE and not charging us any commission for giving this platform to us! People can fund in different capacities and get different rewards for the same. Please check, share and support!
If you believe in our cause please support us.
We welcome private investors to invest between 25 lakhs to 2 crores for this Film. We also have an option of crowd funding platform fairfundr.com which is a Swiss company supported by Swiss government, IBM and Stripe. You can also go to their website fairfundr.com and give funds to us in different capacities.
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