In response to the exhibition "Paris-Delhi-Bombay"

This film plunges its audience into the world of Kathakali, a theatrical dance form originating from Southern India, and immerses the spectator in rigorous teaching of techniques before finally revealing its purpose. Therefore stripped of any imposing costumes and make-up, the dance reveals its most fascinating aspects: its precision and the variety of hand gestures, extreme face and eye movements, special ways of applying pressure to the ground, the rhythmic complexity of its various sections