‘Kathak: Dancing With Taboos’ Film Festival Review: A Story of Passion and Perseverance
Eloquent and informative, Hajera Sheikh’s documentary Kathak: Dancing With Taboos tells a story of love for one’s culture and perseverance through adversity.

Hayati is a beloved baker who bakes bread and other baked goods at his bakery, which he has named Hayatinin Yeri (The Place of Life). However, while leading an ordinary life in his father's legacy bakery, he gets into big trouble for refusing to pay protection money to the mafia. Just as guns start firing, the situation escalates further when his milk brother Utku intervenes. For Utku is a police officer conducting a special operation while keeping his identity hidden. Hayati takes over the operation to repay his debt to Utku, but it's only a matter of time before he messes up this highly confidential and delicate process!
Eloquent and informative, Hajera Sheikh’s documentary Kathak: Dancing With Taboos tells a story of love for one’s culture and perseverance through adversity.
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