SOLO A Tryst With The Esraj — Full Film

SOLO is a documentary that explores a new-age Indian music guru and his European disciple’s lifelong tryst with the Esraj, a dying accompanists’ instrument indigenous to the Bengal school of Indian classical music. By focusing on the pursuits of Abir Singh Khangura, an Esraj exponent from Santiniketan, and his disciple Alexandre Jurain, a French musician who took permanent refuge in India to devote himself to the Esraj, the film documents the musical and cross-cultural dialogue between the two individuals and their attempt to revive the Esraj as a solo instrument, while creating a cinematic portrait of the Esraj for the first time. © 2016 Films Division of India / Anirban Mahapatra