Pushpendra Singh

The different segments of small towns and rural worlds where people take absurd measures to survive.

Laila Aur Satt Geet is part allegory, part ethnographic study, and part feminist fairy tale, using the narrative device of local folk songs - seven, to be exact - to describe the protagonist - Laila's inner and outer worlds.

The paradigm of Berlin-based curator Asta Andersen's upcoming exhibition turns out to be her personal self-fulfilling prophecy: art + cinema = politics = trouble.