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Film director Adoor Gopalakrishnan’s
grandfather was a patron of the arts and had his own
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When she was just a twelve-year-old girl,
Sitara Devi was recruited by Niranjan Sharma, a
filmmaker and a dance director, and she gave dance
sequences in some Hindi movies including her debut in
Usha Haran (1940), Nagina (1951), Roti, Vatan (1954),
Anjali (1957). In Mother India (1957), she performed a
Holi dance dressed as a boy, and this was her last dance
in any movie. (Wikipedia) |
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The Bible sanctions dancing as a religious
rite to be practiced on joyful occasions at national
feasts and after great victories, and “performed by
maidens in the daytime, in open air, in highways,
fields, or groves.” However, there are no instances of
dancing sanctioned in the Bible, in which both sexes
united in the exercise, either as an act of worship or
as an amusement, and any who perverted the dance from a
sacred use to purposes of amusement were called
infamous. (Wikipedia) |
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