Durba Sahay

Patang (English: The Kite) is a 1993 Indian Hindi drama film directed by Goutam Ghose, starring Shabana Azmi, Shafiq Syed, Om Puri and Robi Ghosh. The film is set in small railway station near Gaya, and the life of people in illegal slums near it.[1][2] The film was shot in Gaya and Manpur in Bihar.

When a mysterious woman arrives at their mother's funeral, the siblings try to make sense of who she is and why she is there. They soon realize a painful truth behind her reasons for attending the service.

The film revolves around an eminent Kathak Guru Bhawna Saraswati. When she introduces one of her disciple Renuka who becomes a star overnight and after having the taste of the limelight, the disciple chose to move a step ahead from her Guru, which puts Guru in the state of insecurity and identity crisis. Guru not knowing how to deal with her emotional self, starts dejecting “Renuka. This turns out to be a painful experience for Renuka. Bhawna’s Guru - Guru Gaytri Prabha Devi resonated with the emotional state Bhawna is as in her artistic journey she herself has gone through it.