India, Feb. 8 -- There are houses that shelter lives, and there are those that absorb them-rooms thick with argument and laughter, corridors steeped in conviction, walls that remember more than they reveal. 'Kekee Manzil: House of Art (KM)', the feature-length documentary directed by Dilesh Korya and produced by Behroze Gandhy, belongs to the latter category. It is a film that listens to memory, history and the murmur of a city finding its modern voice.

At its centre is Kekoo Gandhy: gallerist, catalyst, indefatigable evangelist for Indian modern art, and a man whose influence was felt as much at the dining table as it was in the gallery (Chemould) he founded. But the film, tenderly and deliberately, resists the temptation of monument-ma...