Music According to Deben Bhattacharya

A film by Stéphane Jourdain

Always on the road, Deben Bhattacharya has been recording music all around the world.

Deben Bhattacharya spent his life on the road recording music in dozens of countries, in hundreds of cities and towns and making records. He was neither a scientist, nor a dilettante: simply a man eager for knowledge, with an exacerbated sensitivity and penchant for wandering. By the mid-80’s, he had accumulated over 800 hours of recordings, 16,000 photographs, made 23 films and published around 15 books.

The film is constructed around Deben Bhattacharya’s return to Bangladesh, the country of his origins. Always on the road between north and south, we are witnessing his extraordinary journey whereas he shows us little by little his inher world maded of faces, travels and music.