Kalpana (1948 film)
Kalpana English title Imagination is a Hindi film featuring a dancedrama, written and directed by noted dancer, Uday Shankar, in 1948. It is his only film. The story revolves around a young dancers dream of setting up a dance academy, a reflection Shankars own academy, which he founded at Almora. It starred Uday Shankar and his wife Amala Shankar as leads and 17yearold actress Padmini making her screen debut.
Kalpana was shot at Gemini Studios over five years and inspired the 1948 Tamil film, Chandralekha by S. S. Vasan, which was shot at the same studio and featured the song with dancers over large drum sequence it was a major success unlike Kalpana which did not do well at the box office.In 2009, the film process of digital restoration was taken up by NFAI in collaboration with Francebased Thomson Foundation. In 2010, it was being restored by the World Cinema Foundation director Martin Scorsese is a founding member. ........
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