Bala is a 1976 documentary film made by Satyajit Ray, about a Bharatanatyam dancer, Balasaraswati, fondly known as "Bala". The film was jointly produced by National Centre for the Performing Arts and Government of Tamil Nadu. The thirty-three-minute documentary features the life and some of the works by Balasaraswati in the form of narration and dance, starring herself. At the age of fourteen, Ray had seen a performance of Balasaraswati in Kolkata, then known as "Calcutta", in 1935, when she was seventeen years old.<br /><br />#SatyajitRay #Bala #Documentary<br />...<br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Eknd0hL_RQ" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Eknd0hL_RQ</a>