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Dive into folk artiste Vinjamuri Anasuya Devi's life through this documentary
Updated On: 29 October, 2023 07:00 AM IST | Mumbai | Sucheta Chakraborty
Music producer Seetha Ratnakar’s new documentary chronicles the life and work of eminent folk artiste Vinjamuri Anasuya Devi who contributed significantly towards documentation of Andhra’s folk music
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Vinjamuri Anasuya Devi used her classical music training to elevate and embellish folk songs
As a child, while travelling by bullock cart from Kakinada to the nearby villages, my mother would hear folk songs sung by people laying roads or working in the fields. She would stop and listen, and try to sing them. Later, as she began learning music, she started notating these songs. There were no available recordings back then and she developed a whole process of learning these songs on her own. She had a lot of respect for folk music and did not take liberties or force classicism into it,” Doordarshan dance and music producer Seetha Ratnakar tells us about eminent folk artiste Vinjamuri Anasuya Devi. She passed away in 2019 after a prolific career practising and promoting Andhra’s folk music through performances, recordings and publications.
Asamana Anasuya, a new documentary directed by Ratnakar, chronicles this lifelong devotion that the singer and music composer, who was honoured with the Sangeet Natak Akademi Tagore Samman in 2012, held to songs of the earth. As Anasuya Devi says in the documentary, “I am forever indebted to those unknown, nameless folk musicians who generously gifted me so much knowledge.”
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