• Films Division, Ministry of Information & Broadcasting has come up with yet another fiesta, ‘Nrityanjali’, an online film festival on Indian Classical Dance and Maestros from 23rd to 25th September, 2020.
• The first part of ‘Nrityanjali’ will showcase 10 films on the life and works of India’s leading classical dancers. 
• The festival will be streamed on Films Division website www.filmsdivision.org/Documentary of the Week/ and its YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/user/FilmsDivision. All films will be streamed live, simultaneously, for three days. 
• Indian Classical Dance is an umbrella under which various performing arts whose theory and practice can be traced to the Sanskrit text, Natya-Shastra, the foundational treatise by Bharata Muni. Prominent traditional dance forms like Bharat Natyam, Kathak, Kuchipudi, Odissi, Kathakali, Sattriya, Manipuri and Mohini Aattam, include music and recitation in local language or Sanskrit, and they represent a unity of core ideas in a diversity of styles, costumes and expression.

Details of films/documentaries to be screened:

1. “Sitara Devi” 
2. “Yamini Krishnamurthy”
3. “Guru Amubi Singh” 
4. “A Luminous Jewel –Pt. Birju Maharaj”
5. “Kalamandalam Gopi” 
6. “Kanak Rele” 
7. “Dreamer - Swapna Sundari”
8. “Sonal”
9. “Raja-Radha” 
10. “Padma”