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VANAPRASTHAM, THE LAST DANCE

By | March 2000

SAN FRANCISCO ASIAN AMERICAN FILM FEST REVIEW! This is a leisurely-paced but fascinating film about an unusual and beautiful form of South Indian performance, the Keralan theater of Kathakalini…

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VANAPRASTHAM, THE LAST DANCE

This is a leisurely-paced but fascinating film about an unusual and beautiful form of South Indian performance, the Keralan theater of Kathakalini, which...

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That the hero of this film is named John Shat and that he escaped from the Herve Villechaize School of Podiatry & Institute for the Criminally Insane...

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Whatever happened to the freak show? It never died out. It just found a new home in television. TV likes to give us simple morality tales and easily...

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