Rajputana, Jhalawar, Bundi & Katakali Dancers (1940) - filmed in Rajasthan and Kerala

Part of India on Film: 1899 – 1947 This collection of newly digitised films is part of the BFI’s contribution to the UK-India Year of Culture 2017, in partnership with the British Council. View more films on BFI Player (UK only) Spectacular Bundi and a Kathakali dance - A trip to the spectacular city of Bundi and a Kathakali dance performance probably filmed in Kerala), filmed in vivid colour by ‘envoy of the Raj’ Clarmont Skrine. This amateur film was shot by Clarmont Skrine and features a trip he made with his wife to Bundi, Rajasthan. The footage captures numerous details of the city’s spectacular architecture including the Taragarh Fort and Bundi Palace which Kipling described as “such a palace as men build for themselves in uneasy dreams - the work of goblins rather than of men“. The film also comprises a sequence featuring a Kathakali performance - the traditional dance from Kerala, and presumably filmed i