Forever Young

Located in Northeast India, Shillong is widely regarded as the country's capital of rock music. It is the hometown of Lou Majaw, a 62-year-old hippie and regional rock ambassador who gives a concert each year to celebrate Bob Dylan's birthday. In this small city on the border between Burma and Bangladesh, Lou performs with his band Ace of Spades everywhere and for everybody: from big concert halls to small pubs, for die-hard Dylan fans as well as the local teenagers at the St. Mary School, initiating them into the world of rock and roll. But he also puts on a concert each month in New Delhi. Skilfully combining Majaw's thoughts on music, rock poetry and today's India with the dynamic images of various performances, director Ranjan Palit evokes the spirit of his own generation and of contemporary India and its many facades. The director, known in the documentary world mostly as a brilliant cameraman, points out: "My hometown Kolkata has always had a very strong connection with rock music of the 1960s and 1970s. Of late, there has been a very strong revival in other parts of the country as well."