Team Dollu gets the right beat

Team Dollu gets the right beat

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Team Dollu gets the right beat

Deccan Chronicle

On social media and red carpets from Boston to Dhaka, and now Goa, team Dollu is having an ‘upbeat’ mainstream moment. Through Dollu, we wanted to convey how urbanisation has affected indigenous folk-art forms,” says Puranik. It is then that Bhadra realises that their village temple’s annual rituals would remain incomplete without the team’s drumming performance. For those, who’ve missed the bus, Dollu recently won the Dadasaheb Phalke Award 2021 for Best Kannada Film at the Innovative International Film Festival.

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