Sounds of Barna-The musical village of Thar Desert

About this film

In Barna, a village about 40 km from Jaisalmer, music is not a career choice. It is a birthright. Among the Manganiyar community, a child's training as a musician begins almost from the day they are born, and the village grows up on song, rhythm and the instruments of the desert. How does a single village raise generation after generation of musicians? What does it mean to be born into a tradition you did not choose, and to carry it forward? And what happens to this living legacy as the world beyond the dunes keeps changing? An immersive documentary journey into the Thar Desert village of Barna, where every home has a voice and every child is a musician in the making. In Barna, every child is born into a song. Haaka TV is India’s first Vertical Micro Documentary IP Network.