‘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.

August is spending the last night in her childhood bedroom when she finds a box of her old children’s books. After reliving her life experiences through the lens of these stories, she encounters her younger self and must decide how to move forward without leaving her to experience it all alone.
Eloquent and informative, Hajera Sheikh’s documentary Kathak: Dancing With Taboos tells a story of love for one’s culture and perseverance through adversity.
One of the great achievements of this film is its ability to challenge the mind and to force you to try to process information in a different way than you’re used to.
That gut-wrenching feeling you have while watching it is okay but needed, and you, the viewer, will be okay.
Desi’s “straight man” to Lucy’s playful exuberance subverted people’s expectations of what a Latino man could be and added respect and nuance to the way onscreen marriages between men and women were portrayed.
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