PEARL OF THE DESERT 

by Pushpendra Singh


Documentary I India, South Korea I 82' & 52' I 2019 


Moti Kahn, a musically gifted child from the lower caste of Muslim Manganiyars of the Thar desert, is forced to sing and play music for their hereditary patrons, to survive. But Moti finds singing for their patrons humiliating as they are still treated lowly. Sattar, his father, wants Moti to study and make a successful career outside music but Moti aspires to be a successful singer so that he is treated respectfully in the village. So Moti leaves his village behind and sets out on the journey for the remote city. 


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2019 Mumbai Film Festival | India Gold Competition






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ํ‘ธ์‰ฌํŽœ๋“œ๋ผ ์‹ฑ ๊ฐ๋…


๋‹คํ๋ฉ˜ํ„ฐ๋ฆฌ I ์ธ๋„, ํ•œ๊ตญ I 82' & 52' I 2019


์ธ๋„์˜ ํƒ€๋ฅด ์‚ฌ๋ง‰, ์ด์Šฌ๋žŒ๊ต๋„ ๋ง๊ฐ„๋‹ˆ์–ด์Šค์˜ ํ•˜์œ„ ๊ณ„๊ธ‰์ธ ๋ชจํ‹ฐ ์นธ์€ ์Œ์•…์  ์žฌ๋Šฅ์„ ๋ค ์†Œ๋…„์ด์ง€๋งŒ ์ƒ์—…์„ ์œ„ํ•ด ์„ธ์Šต์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ด์–ด์ ธ์˜จ ํ›„์›์ž๋“ค์„ ์œ„ํ•ด ๋…ธ๋ž˜ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ๋ฐ–์— ์—†๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ๋ชจํ‹ฐ๋Š” ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ ๋ณธ์ธ์ด ํ•˜๋Œ€๋ฐ›๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์— ๊ทธ ์ผ์„ ์ฐฝํ”ผํ•˜๋‹ค๊ณ  ์—ฌ๊ธด๋‹ค. ๊ทธ์˜ ์•„๋ฒ„์ง€ ์‚ฌํƒ€๋ฅด๋Š” ๋ชจํ‹ฐ๊ฐ€ ์Œ์•… ์ด์™ธ์˜ ๊ณณ์—์„œ ์„ฑ๊ณต์ ์ธ ์ปค๋ฆฌ์–ด๋ฅผ ์Œ“๊ธธ ๋ฐ”๋ผ์ง€๋งŒ ๋ชจํ‹ฐ๋Š” ์œ„๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊ฐ€์ˆ˜๊ฐ€ ๋˜์–ด ๊ทธ ๋งˆ์„์—์„œ ์ •์ค‘ํ•œ ๋Œ€์šฐ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ›๊ธธ ์—ด๋งํ•œ๋‹ค. ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ ๋ชจํ‹ฐ๋Š” ๊ทธ์˜ ๊ณ ํ–ฅ์„ ๋’ค๋กœํ•˜๊ณ  ๋จผ ๋„์‹œ๋กœ ์—ฌ์ •์„ ๋– ๋‚œ๋‹ค.


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