Event
Fearless Nadia
- Date: Sunday, 13 October 2013, 7pm
- Venue: Melbourne Recital Centre, Elisabeth Murdoch Hall — Cnr Southbank Blvd & Sturt St, Southbank, VIC
- Series: This event is part of the Melbourne Festival 2013 series
- Tickets: $49/$39/$29
Event Details
Musical prodigy Ben Walsh presents an exhilarating musical and cinematic celebration of a silent-era film goddess – the Australian-born Bollywood siren known as Fearless Nadia.
Her name said it all: Fearless Nadia (aka Perth-native Mary Evans) was one of the brightest lights of 1930s Bombay cinema. A former circus performer, she came to dominate India’s silver screens with her roguish charm, beauty and swashbuckling, death-defying stunts.
For the 100th anniversary of Indian cinema, composer and percussionist Ben Walsh (Tom Tom Crew) fronts a 12-strong coalition of Australian and Indian musicians as they perform an energetic, percussive score set to an action-packed montage of scenes from Diamond Queen, Fearless Nadia’s most famous film.
Thrill to the daredevil antics and propulsive, Indian-influenced tunes as Walsh’s orchestra pay tribute to the screen queen’s feats of daring.
This film features Hindi and Urdu with English subtitles.
Further information for this event is available online at the event's website
Featured artists
- Music of Ben Walsh
- Jazz/improvisation by Sandy Evans
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