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Shabnam Virmani is a documentary filmmaker, former journalist, and singer of Kabir folk songs. In 2003, stung by the religious riots of Gujarat, India in 2002, she set out in questof the 15th century mystic poet/saint Kabir, exploring how his poetry intersects with ideas of identity, religion, nationalism, harmony, impermanence and orality. She “ventur[ed] into diverse socio-cultural, religious and musical landscapes, meeting with people who sing, love, quote, revere and make meaning of Kabir” in their lives. In 2009, following six years of journey, Shabnam and the Kabir Projectteam offered to the world a set of 4 musical documentary films, and several music CDs and books of translated poetry, for reflection and healing.

The journey in search of Kabir in present-day India and Pakistan had a few unexpected and intangible twists for Shabnam. Living in Ahmedabad at the time of the communal riots in Gujarat in 2002 and witnessing some of the mob violence first-hand, she had recalled a line from Kabir at the time: ‘Sadho, dekho jag baurana! (Oh seekers, see the world
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Shabnam Virmani

Indian film director

Shabnam Virmani is a documentary film maker. She has also been an artist-in-residence at the Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology in Bangalore since 2002. A co-founder of the Drishti Media Arts and Human Rights Collective, Virmani has directed several documentaries, some of which have won awards. She's also a composer and festivities participant.[1]

Kabira Khada Bazaar Mein, a documentary film by Virmani on the poet-saint part, won the Special Jury Prize at the 58th National Awards in June 2011.[2]

The award was granted in acknowledgement of the film's power to expose the nuances of, and remedial suggestions to, the Kabir community.[3]

Awards and nominations

Had-Anhad (Bounded-Boundless)

Journeys with Ram and Kabir

  • 1st Prize (shared), One Billion Eyes Documentary Film Festival, August 2009, Chennai
  • Mahindra Indo-American Arts Council Film Festival, 5–9 November, New York City
  • World Performing Arts Festival, Nov 2008, Lahore, Pakistan
  • Bangalore International Film Festival,
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    Shabnam Virmani is a documentary film maker and artist in residence at the Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology in Bangalore since 2002. Co-founder of the Drishti Media Arts and Human Rights collective, she has directed several documentaries, some of which have won awards. In 2002, she co-directed an award-winning community radio program with the Kutch Mahila Vikas Sangathan in Gujarat. She has performed Kabir's compositions in Rajasthan Kabir Yatra - a six-days long folk music festival and in Jashn-e-Rekhta.

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