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The short film, directed by Anya Raza and Aisha Linnea, is about Indu Mitha, a 90-year-old Bharatanatyam dance teacher.

I WRITE from my hospital bed in response to the article ‘How She Moves celebrates Pakistan’s rich heritage of classical dance (April 12; Dawn.Com), and wish to state that the documentary is the filmmakers’ expression of their ideas about my work, which are in complete contrast to my own ideas. I am a dance-teacher and choreographer. I have taught in a mostly unfertile environment. My student/disciple, who is my pride and joy and the heir to my dance legacy, is my daughter, Tehreema. She has imbibed all that I had to teach in dance, and has grown beyond that in performance, theory and in...

Desk Report The film was directed by Anya Raza and Ayesha Linnea and followed Mitha's last performance before retiring. Photo: How She Moves documentary Dancer Indu Mitha has said that a documentary made on her, How She Moves, is not reflective of her own ideas or representative of her. "I write from my hospital bed in response to your article of 12 April, to state that the film How She Moves, is the filmmakers expression of their ideas about my work, which are in complete contrast to my own ideas," she wrote in a letter to the editor at Dawn. The film in question was directed and produce...

Images StaffUpdated 12 Apr, 2021 07:46pm The short documentary How She Moves celebrates the millennia-old traditions of dance and music in the piece of land we today call Pakistan. The documentary follows Indu Mitha, a 90-year-old classical dance teacher hailing from Lahore, and her students as they prepare for her final dance recital. With the partition of India, and the carving out of a Muslim-dominated state, divided South Asian states faced all new challenges. Among the challenges that affected the newly created Pakistan more than the historic state of India was the need to create a new...