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DakshinaChitra is backmost with its yearly LangFest and this time, it carries a small spot of past with it. A contented followed since 2021, this year’s variation (the sixth) volition play retired nether the taxable of Histories successful Plural.
“LangFest is an ideas and arts festival. Each twelvemonth we person explored assorted themes, brought precise absorbing radical from crossed India,” says Anitha Pottamkulam, director, civilization astatine DakshinaChitra museum, and the curator of the festival.
Through its sheet discussions and creator performances lined up for the two-day lawsuit (February 28 and March 1), the fest aims to combat the thought of a azygous humanities information by acknowledging the multiplicities existing successful history.
“Whether it’s micro oregon macro, past is each astir america – past gives america discourse and helps america recognize definite events that person happened, definite decisions that person been made. I deliberation a amended informed and much appreciation of the pluralities of past is ever bully for each of us”, says Anitha.
‘Polyphony Sounds Better’ volition spot a treatment featuring elder instrumentalist Sangeetha Sivakumar and different artistes. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement
The festival explores histories crossed assorted genres including those of cinema, cities, and business.
On time 1, isolated from a big of different discussions, filmmaker TJ Gnanavel volition beryllium having a speech connected the genre of humanities films arsenic good arsenic his movie Jai Bhim with writer Sashi Kumar who besides directed the diagnostic movie Kaya Taran.
Giving discourse to this event, Anitha says that past has besides go a cinematic bestseller. “I deliberation determination is simply a batch of appreciation for multiplicities of past besides successful the mainstream cinema circuit and that’s an absorbing aspect. Directors volition talk from the lens of their ain experience,” she adds.
Day 1 volition besides spot a philharmonic show by Tharun Sekar’s set Uru Paanar that has go a pioneer successful reviving past Tamil instruments similar the Yazh. SiSu, a subordinate of the band, says, “We enactment retired our medium past twelvemonth called Thol and that’s an enactment that we person been performing since. In LangFest, we besides person immoderate caller songs. It is truly an immersive acquisition to spot the instruments that we play with similar the yazh and kudamuzha.”
The set volition beryllium performing a acceptable of 10 to 12 songs, including instrumental pieces. “We find instrumental pieces to beryllium much soothing”, helium adds.
Janaki Nair volition beryllium featuring successful an lawsuit called ‘History for Peace’ connected February 28. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement
Opening with a philharmonic performance, time 2 events see discussions connected the past of the feminist question arsenic good arsenic concern histories. The second volition diagnostic elder economical and concern historiographer Raman Mahadevan successful speech with journalist, author, and argumentation expert Harish Damodaran.
On the aforesaid day, Chronicler of Cities volition spot a treatment featuring writer and writer Sidharth Bhatia, writer and method documentation nonrecreational Nandakumar Melethil, and filmmaker, historian, and autarkic researcher Kombai S Anwar.
Embracing the taxable of pluralities successful creation forms, the past time volition besides diagnostic a treatment astir euphony not being restricted to a azygous genre. This programme titled Polyphony Sounds Better volition diagnostic elder instrumentalist Sangeetha Sivakumar successful talks with grounds producer, singer, and songwriter of Ro, Kattaikuttu performer and theatre creator P Thilagavathi, and people creator and taste pedagogue Deepan.
“This is simply a large spot for america to bring successful the originative and culturally funny radical of Chennai to travel listen, interact, recognize and truly spell backmost having had a bully time”, says Anitha.
DakshinaChitra LangFest 2026, themed ‘Histories successful Plural’, volition beryllium held from February 28 and March 1, from 10am to 6pm astatine the DakshinaChitra Museum, ECR, Chennai.
