- This film is a musical documentary woven around the endangered musical culture of the Rangdani Rabhas from Manikganj, Meghalaya.
- Keteki Rabha, a singer in her seventies, is one of the few in the community to have preserved the tradition of music through her songs. As she grows older and meeker, she grapples with the prediction of the extinction of traditional Rabha music. She's also a traditional mourner, with her songs reverberating the existential threat facing the art with each passing day of her life. Faced with the prospect of losing the tradition, Keteki manages to find someone to pass on the art and keep it alive. Her student, Juleswari Rabha, a woman in her 60s has diligently imbibed the qualities of her teacher. Surrounding this musical duo are other musicians holding on to their traditional musical culture. One of them is Mukul Rabha, a musician and an instrument innovator who is trying to conserve the acoustic essence of the culture by curating instruments out of bamboo. Sounds which were traditionally produced by a group of performers are now produced by a monolithic instrument. It is a miniature version of the performance that mimics the sound very accurately. Through music, the film explores the themes of life, death and folk culture as the artists find themselves at the crossroads of a rapidly transforming culture. Blending the rhythms of mundane life with the music of with the lyrical allegories driving the narrative. The film provides an immersive and intimate slice of the Rabha life through the allegory.
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