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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When mind triumphs over matter, you become Zohra Sehgal. How else do you explain that someone born in 1912 is still relevant to us? Still loved, adored and still smiling at life with a wink and a saucy grin after a lifetime of challenges in an age when people far younger and stronger than her […]
Watching Naseeruddin Shah as an exploitative superstar in The Dirty Picture may have reminded you once again of the many faces and skins and voices and bodies he inhabits as an actor. The film also made me recall some encounters I have had with the actor who never says the typical things, and never bothers […]
Note: This is a press release. Turntable Productions is an initiative by young students Shoury Gupta, Prateek Handa and Medha Bankhwal to bring commercial worth to theatre as a performing art and incorporate it as a form of entertainment, interaction, a professional career option and learning in the schedules of Delhi residents . Turntable Productions […]
Note: I have had the privilege to interview theatre personality and actor Arundhati Nag many times over a decade or more and this piece recalls many conversations about her life and work. You saw her award winning turn in Pa recently and even if she comes for a few seconds in an advertisement, you know, […]
Note: I met Shernaz Patel in 2007 and it was a moment of personal significance considering, I grew up watching her on TV in the best years of Doordarshan and had read about her, without ever imagining that I would be interviewing her, one day. It was hard to look at Shernaz Patel and not […]
Note: This is a Press Release, not an authored article. Bangalore Theatre comes together to celebrate World Theatre Day with THE GREAT GALATA Date: 27th March 2012. ONE SHOW ONLY. The Great Galata is a curated theatre event to celebrate theatre, theatre people, theatre spaces and theatre performances. It has been envisioned as a start-to- […]
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 […]
When the lights flood the dusty space above a wooden platform, the darkness beyond its length, from where applause comes as a storm, the boundaries of lines and curves, within which art unfolds on-stage, as the colors of make-up, and volumes of wigs and costumes define a character’s cage, the aesthetics of art, rubbed upon each […]
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 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 […]
“Applause begets applause in the theatre, as laughter begets laughter and tears beget tears.” Clayton Hamilton, Theory of the Theatre Imagine a stage pulsing with the sum of all human emotions, youthful energy, scripts sourced from various institutions across the country and an event where creativity and self-expression are celebrated. the event is Histrionica – […]
2011 made us bid goodbye unwillingly and sorrowfully to… (Tribute: http://unboxedwriters.com/2011/12/satyadev-dubey-the-resilient-cactus/) Satyadev Dubey who wrote film dialogues like he was unaware of all the cliches and conventions that do not let cinematic characters breathe. And produced and directed theatre with a fierce passion that sought and demanded nothing but absolute attention and commitment from those […]