It is not the first time that acclaimed Bharatanatyam dancer Malavika Sarukkai has been shot for a film. Her robust performances have been captured by the BBC, Wnet (USA), Cinematheque Dance Paris and others. Yet, after watching the whirlwind of a trailer of The Unseen Sequence, a documentary made by adman Sumantra Ghosal; one has the inkling of being privy not only to an artiste but also to a world of art and devotion verging on an ethos.

A still from The Unseen Sequence, Malavika Sarukkai during her performance of Mahishasura Mardini