‘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.

This luxury house is the result of a family's pesugihan. The family gets a lot of property, gold, houses and other luxury objects and gives sacrifices and offerings in return. But because the family wanted to act fraudulently by not giving sacrifices and offerings anymore and intending to flee using the sea lane. Then the ghosts immediately sank the ship that the family was riding so that the whole family died. The house and the possessions that were possessed were indirectly taken back by the ghosts and several families still in the house were killed. They were killed on the night of Suro.
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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