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| CURRENT ISSUE APRIL 03, 2006 |
| YOUR WEEK: ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT |
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| Theatre | ||||||
| An Indian Summer | ||||||
Organised by the British Council, the production brought together a young Indian and Sri Lankan cast interacting in a mixture of languages—Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, Malayalam, Tamil, Sinhalese and English. It had to be multi-lingual, says Supple. “To restrict ourselves to English would mean to miss out on a wealth of different ways of telling stories. It would also be a lie,” he avers. After being staged in India, the production will move to the Swan Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon, UK. The play will be staged at the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, Delhi, from April 1 to 3. It will subsequently move to Mumbai, Chennai and Kolkata. by Aasheesh Sharma | ||||||
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| Ringing in a New Trend | ||||||
by S. Sahaya Ranjit | ||||||
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| Old Bore | ||||||
 UMAR Director: Karan Razdan Starring: Jimmy Shergill, Prem Chopra, Kader Khan, Satish Kaushik OK. We love our old people, God bless them, but on the big screen, they are attractive only if played by well-preserved actors such as Amitabh Bachchan and Hema Malini. Khan, Chopra and Kaushik are nowhere as good-looking as the stars who lit up the otherwise depressing moral science lesson, Baghban. But Razdan, best known for his lesbian slasher film, Girlfriend, clearly hoped the sleaze content in his film would see it through. It doesn’t—though not for lack of trying on the part of a pouty Victoria Madam, who runs a club where Shergill sings, and who utters the most amazingly scripted dialogue heard in recent times: “I used to love you for your body. But now I love you for your soul.” Shergill, as the startled subject of her misdirected passion, is a good actor who hasn’t got the right break. He’s an orphan who has these three ageing musketeers as friends in big, bad London. Naturally, they bail him out of a murder rap, but not before some lip-curling heavy-handed hamming by Dalip Tahil, as a corrupt minister. Leaden stuff. by Kaveree Bamzai | ||||||
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| A Mixed Bag | ||||||
Delhi A festival of legendary directors’ plays is being organised by Sahitya Kala Parishad Kolkata France’s best ad films will be showcased in The Night Of The Adeators, a programme organised by the French Association. It is a compilation of over 70,000 publicity spots that ad-collector Jean Marie Boursicot had collected for over 23 years. The show will be presented at Max Mueller Bhawan on March 25. | ||||||
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| Colours of Life | ||||||
 Mumbai Colourful and vibrant, “Visual Expression” is Rekha Rao’s latest collection of paintings (oil on canvas) on display at Cymroza Art Gallery till April 8. Her collection, comprising 14 works, is inspired by her recent relocation from Bangalore to Mumbai. While her painting, titled “Striding”, is a visual interpretation of the potholes on city roads, “Incense” has been inspired by the life of agarbatti-makers. “Visual Expression” is a collection of works which can be termed partially abstract, says Rao. Though most of the canvas is dominated by abstract strokes, a vertical panel next to it includes figurative work which, Rao says, “completes the story”. She warns that her paintings do not convey everything directly, “you need to read between the lines to understand them”. And though the theme is life, “they don’t present a melancholic picture, but are quite colourful in their expression”. by Vanita Singh | ||||||
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