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empirical knowledge about the Indian and world music. Sincehe is very eloquent, I used his first person narration. The filmis autobiographical in nature.The emergence of free India with its revival of its age-oldclassical music and other performing arts provided perfectambience and opportunity for the young struggling artist toprove his mettle. During the course of his musical journey, hewas even hooted out. Setbacks did not deter him from pursuingthe excellence for music. The encouragement given by the greatwestern maestros such as Yehudi Menuhin helped him to provehis talent and expose the best of Indian Music in the West. Thisfilm is a tribute to great maestro. I hope I have done justice tothe subject.POOMARAM(A FLOWERING TREE)Video/ Colour /Malayalam/55 Minutes /ESTSYNOPSISThe film is an attempt at constructing a MALE EDITIONof the audio- visual dictionary on Menstruation. Of howmenstruation created the world, unraveling the Metaformictheory, postulated by Feminist Author Judy Grahn. A newrelational origin story that women's menstrual rituals are theroots of human culture, and that in human evolution womenand men have markedly different relationships to blood.Metaform, briefly, means an embodied or enacted idea withmenstruation at its base.The film is a mythographic observation of theinterconnections among ancient menstrual rites and thedevelopment of agriculture, mathematics, writing, calendars, andother realms of knowledge.92 93