A brief musical movie “Dashobhuja” (the ten-armed Goddess) by Spagia Foundation has drawn the who’s who of the performing arts and movie world to spotlight the ten astras or weapons held by Maa Durga in every hand and its deep non secular that means and message. The movie, to be premiered on-line in conformity with social distancing norms, can be in Hindi.
Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot and Governor Kalraj Mishra – Rajasthan
The brief movie has been conceptualised by Ms. Vinnie Kakkar and introduced by Spagia Foundation. Spagia Foundation is a social initiative by Vinnie & Saurabh Kakkar. It is attempting to make a visual distinction by enabling, participating and empowering younger minds with numerous talent growth; bringing financial independence and selling artwork and tradition.
Sharmila Tagore, Sonal Mansingh, Pt. Vishwa Mohan Bhatt
The movie “Dashobhuja” is directed by Arindam Sil and maestro Bickram Ghosh has given the music. While Pt Vishwa Mohan Bhatt of Grammy Award and Padma Bhushan-fame has executed raag Durga for a portion of the movie, Dr. Sonal Mansingh has recited the Sanskrit shlokas and narration. Singers Usha Uthup, Iman Chakraborty and Somchanda Bhattacharya have lent their voices to the brief movie whose script is written by Sugato Guha and choreographed by Arnab Bandhopadhyay. Ayan Sil contributed as the director of images. The complete taking pictures was executed at the Eastern Zonal Cultural Centre (EZCC) Kolkata in Salt Lake.
This yr Spagia Foundation has collaborated with Kolkata’s greater than 78-year-old Chaltabagan Puja for this musical movie.
Ms. Vinnie Kakkar, Chairperson, Spagia stated, “The spirits have not dampened, the celebrations will have different flavour this year. With global pandemic of COVID-19 the new normal is mask and social distancing. Adhering to the same, Spagia has organised virtual Durga Puja. In Bengali version of this film Member of Parliament Ms. Nusrat Jahan and Actor Ms. Rituparna Sengupta has given the narration. We have received good wishes from our Hon’ble Governor Shri Kalraj Mishra and Hon’ble chief Minister Shri Ashok Gehlot as well as Ms. Sharmila Tagore for this initiative.“
The movie revolves round the ten astras or weapons that the Gods gave to Maa Durga, specifically kharga (sword), trishula (trident), sudarshana chakra (thunder disc), vajra (thunderbolt), tir dhanush (bow and arrow), bharji (Agni), sankha (conch), lotus, khitaka/parashu (gada) and snake. It begins with a woman doing “Chandi Path” and a bit lady representing Devi Durga. The ten astras of Maa Durga are represented by ten girls. Each girl representing every an astra does a efficiency and at the finish of which they current their astra to the little lady as the “Chandi Path” continues. At the finish of the ten performances when the little lady is introduced with all the ten astras we see the idol of Devi Durga full Dashobhuja‘ type with all the astras in her palms. The video will begin and conclude with excerpts and footages from earlier years’ Puja celebrations of Spagia Foundation.
The girls performers who’ve represented the ten astras of Maa Durga in the movie are Ananya Chatterjee, Bratati Bandhopadhyay, Devlina Kumar, Jaya Seal Ghosh, June Maliah, Koneenica Banerjee, Nandini Bhowmik, Priti Patel, Poulomi Das, Shinjini Kulkarni, Soumili Biswas and Souraseni Maitra. The movie additionally introduces Rammani Mandal.