The Art of Compassion: Buddhist Heritage of the Western and the Eastern Deccan

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Exploring the art of the Western and Eastern Deccan, reflecting on the evolution of humankind.

Directed by Benoy K. Behl | 2011
Producer and Commissioning Editor: Rajiv Mehrotra

Benoy K. Behl is a filmmaker, art historian and photographer who has been tirelessly working for over three decades. He has taken over 35,000 photographs of Asian monuments and art heritage and made a hundred documentaries on art history. He holds the Limca Book Record for having travelled to all corners of India. The National Geographic magazine carried a story about ancient Indian art revealed through Behl’s photography.

Rajiv Mehrotra is the founding Managing Trustee and Commissioning Editor of PSBT - his films have won more than 300 awards worldwide, including 32 in 31 years from the President of India. His nine books are available in 50 languages and editions. He serves as the Trustee/ Secretary of the Foundation for Universal Responsibility of HH the Dalai Lama (For more, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajiv_Mehrotra).

PSBT was a not-for-profit that nurtured and supported the production of independent documentary films by a diversity of filmmakers from across India. Over two decades, it produced close to 700 documentary films, each film averaging two film festival selections and every second film an award. (Read more here: www.psbt.org, https://www.civilsocietyonline.com/cinema/psbt-story-630-films-230-awards-400-filmmakers/, https://psbt.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/OnGlobalScreens-Article.pdf, https://www.thehindu.com/features/cinema/in-the-channels-of-trust/article3942019.ece, https://psbt.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/PSBT-Real-Films-on-Real-India.jpg)

PSBT was led by some of India's iconic film personalities - Adoor Gopalakrishnan, Mrinal Sen, Shyam Benegal, Sharmila Tagore, with Fali Nariman and Kiran Karnik. From its inception in 2000, Tulika Srivastava was a key member of the Team, joined in 2005, by Ridhima Mehra.

Credits
Cinematographer: Benoy K. Behl
Editor: Sanghamitra Ghosh

Produced by PSBT, for and in partnership with the Films Division.
http://www.psbt.org/; https://filmsdivision.org/

For festival and screening queries, please write to us at distribution@psbt.org

Last updated: July 2020

Category
Buddhist Art
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