The Lotus and the Swan

Synopsis

"​Hands destined to mould a thing of beauty​".

​Thus wrote James Cousins, eminent writer, of a young Sikh potter he met in Japan in 1922.

The film celebrates the life and legacy of S​ardar Gurcharan Singh​, the father of studio pottery in India.

Daddyji, as he came to be fondly called, introduced ​the ​underpaid and undervalued craft of pottery to the imagination of the ​Indian ​​mass​es​ with plates, jugs and teapots, ensur​ing that ​colour and beauty ​a​re accessible to everybody.