In 1979, Basu Chatterjee made Baaton Baaton Mein and unobtrusively brought to us the dating and courtship rituals of a community that was till then either caricatured or just overlooked in Hindi cinema. Nancy Perreira and Tony Braganza…
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Matriarchal manipulation in a patriarchal world is depicted unsparingly in Usha Priyamwada’s Pachpan Khambe Laal Deewarein (Now playing on Prasar Bharti). The mother resentful of her lecturer daughter’s comfortable life in her college residence because the younger daughters…
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“Start with hope..always start with hope. We went from being a shitty team to become one of the biggest dynasties in the sport and all it needed was one match to light this fire,” says Michael Jordan at…
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In 1947, my grandparents brought three children and the remains of an uprooted life from Pakistan to India in a train. One of those children was my mother. I grew up hearing a lot of stories about the…
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Three documentaries streaming right now show the ultimate culmination of the Bois Locker Room culture. And what happens when one gender is taught to mistrust its instincts of self-preservation and the other does not even learn something as…
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In Sudip Sharma’s Paatal Lok (Now streaming on Amazon. Co written by Sharma, Sagar Haveli, Hardik Mehta and Gunjit Chopra. Directed by Avinash Arun and Prosit Roy), India’s disowned inhabit the headlines we turn away from. A young…
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The Ranga Shankara Theatre Festival 2012 in Bangalore pays a tribute to the dramatic genius of William Shakespeare and one of the short plays hosted at the festival is.. The Seduction of Lady Anne: Excerpts from William Shakespeare’s Richard III ** Synopsis: Lady Anne is in mourning as her husband Edward and her father-in-law Henry […]
** About Header and Footer Club: The Header and Footer Club at IISc (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore), has enjoyed many creative collaborations and has entertained more than 5000 people inside and outside campus with stand-up comedy, street plays and full length comedies. The theatre club has won prizes at national level at various cultural […]
Piya Behrupiya, the Hindi musical version of Twelfth Night brought by The Company Theatre will open in Pune on the 13th of October, this year. This play was staged recently at the World Shakespeare Festival in London-UK and was applauded by a full house. In the words of its director, Atul Kumar, the audiences in […]
I am fishing for the right quote by Manto to begin this write-up. As I unearth some old books from my college days, I realise that Manto is not someone, who can be put away between the pages of history forever. It was hard to ignore the man when he lived and it is hard […]
Note: This is a press release and not an article and the author’s name is to only indicate who has uploaded it. Play: Five Grains of Sugar Written by Manav Kaul Directed by Nimi Ravindran Translated by : Arshia Sattar. Lighting Design: Sujay Saple Sound: Bharavi. Original Music: Sandeep Vasishta Date: 7th and 8th February 2012 […]
Note: This is a press release, not an article and the name of the author is only to indicate who uploaded it. rafiki, the Bangalore based theatre group, is doing a run of The Memorandum, as a tribute to playwright Václav Havel. The three shows will play at Ranga Shankara on January 31st, February 1st and 2nd […]
Note-This is a press release and not an article and the name of the author is only to indicate who uploaded it. Author Vikram Sampath’s latest ( and third) book – ‘Voice of the Veena: S Balachander, a biography’ is the official biography of the renowned Veena Maestro Padmabhushan S Balachander and will be launched in Bangalore […]
Note: This is a press release and the byline is only to indicate who has posted this piece.. The Golden Dragon, Germany’s most successful new play, is the second in the six-play Jagriti (A theatre space in Bangalore) Season that started in December and runs through to June 2012. The prolific German playwright, Roland Schimmelpfennig and […]