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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Pradeep Vaidya is a committed theatre practitioner and has been been working in theatre for over twenty years as a writer, director, music composer, singer, light designer, theatre trainer, theatre manager. He has, to his credit a META each for Best Light Design in 2007, 2011 and 2016 besides several nominations in other categories. Other prestigious awards for […]
It was the afternoon of September 16, 2015 and I was in the lounge of Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, sitting next to a childhood memory. We had just finished a long chat and I was feeling what I always feel when am in the presence of pure authenticity, unpretentious goodness and for the lack […]
Khwab Sa, a 120-minute, gloriously colourful musical experience comes to a theatre near you! This is an adaptation of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, performed as a collaborative project with contemporary dance and movement, in Hindi gibberish as spoken word and live contemporary World Music- all performed by various professional artists chosen and brought together from […]
Gillo Theatre Repertory is a Mumbai based repertory that has been staging plays for children since 2010. Over the past six years, they have produced more than twelve plays and staged nearly 300 shows across India. Each year, they try to bring their latest work to Bangalore and stage performances across the city. They will be bringing […]
AFB and Bangalore Little Theatre are back with the monthly play reading sessions for 2016. This play reading is a part of the Alliance française de Bangalore and Bangalore Little Theatre partnership. And this is how it unfolds. Some highly imaginative and enterprising playwright of yore, created a character non-existent in the epic Mahabharatha and got […]
Stop for a bit. Here is a mirror. Look into it. What do you see? Look again. Strange isn’t it, how we can surprise ourselves now and then? Welcome to an experimance about finding and losing yourself. Knock Knock Who’s There? is a workshop + performance where the audience will participate and in the process, get […]
When the kitchen is not just a place for opening cans or tearing the tops of boxes, it offers the thrill of creation which is shared with poets and sculptors painters and musicians when one is inspired to cook a new dish. This is the essential spirit of Kitchen Poems… an experience, an exploration of […]
On the occasion of the International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia, and Biphobia on May 17th, Alliance Francaise de Bangalore and Bangalore Little Theatre would like to invite you to the reading of the play “8” by Dustin Lance Black. The story of same sex marriages seems to repeat itself world over and the debate continues. Here […]
What happens when Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare is translated as Piyaa Behrupiyaa in Hindi by Amitosh Nagpal? Magic. Directed by Atul Kumar, this acclaimed play now comes to Bengaluru. Synopsis In the household of Olivia, two campaigns are being quietly waged – one by the lovesick lord Orsino against the heart of the indifferent […]
Bangalore Theatre Company presents Kannada play ‘Cherry Thota’ based on Anton Chekhov’s ‘The Cherry Orchard ’ on April 7, 2016 at 7:30 pm at Ranga Shankara. The play deals with the turbulent times of the then Russia when ‘serfdom’ had been just abolished and the society was moving forward. Cherry orchard, as a metaphor, suggests several things simultaneously; the beauty of […]
Romanoff and Juliet is a play by Peter Ustinov. A comic spoof of the Cold War, it is set in the small mythical mid-European country of Concordia, whose leader is wooed by the United States and the Soviet Union, each one wanting him as an ally. Russia’s ambassador, a member of the Romanoff family, has […]
There is something about actor, director and veteran theatre exponent Aamir Raza Husain that reminds you of James Goldman’s The Lion in Winter. In the ornate coffee shop of one of the city’s oldest hotels, a beam of sunlight finds the Padma Shree awardee as he says, “I don’t always like the spotlight. And I […]