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| CURRENT ISSUE AUGUST 28, 2006 |
| YOUR WEEK: ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT |
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| MUSIC FESTIVAL | ||||||
| In Memoriam | ||||||
For 58 years this festival has been featuring young, upcoming and established artistes, who don't charge any fee for their presentations. This year, there are fewer artistes. "We have tried to promote the generation-next this year," says Madhup Mudgal, principal of the vidyalaya. The festival will begin with a surbahar and sitar recital by Purbayan Chatterjee, followed by Padma Talwalkar's vocal recital. She has evolved a musical idiom of her own, assimilating the best of Kirana, Jaipur and Gwalior Gharanas. The second day will open with a vocal recital by Neela Bhagwat of Gwalior Gharana. Her Kabir bhajans have an unusual flavour and intensity. One of the unique features in this year's festival is a tabla recital by 12-year-old Yashwant Vaishnav. Kirana Gharana representative from Bangalore, Jayatheerth Mevundi, will also sing on the same day. The shehnai, for long the sole territory of Ustad Bismillah Khan, finds two young and promising players, Sanjeev and Ashwani Shankar and the hundred-stringed santoor will come alive in the hands of Pandit Ulhas Bapat. The festival will wind up with a vocal recital by Pandit Jasraj, fondly known as "Rasraj". Soak in the music. From August 21-23, at Kamani Auditorium. -By S. Sahaya Ranjit | ||||||
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| DANCE THEATRE | ||||||
| Defying Mythology | ||||||
-By S. Sahaya Ranjit | ||||||
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| Art in Life | ||||||
-By Nirmala Ravindran | ||||||
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| FILM REVIEW | ||||||
| Emotional Gap | ||||||
Director: Karan Johar Cast: Shah Rukh Khan, Rani Mukerjee, Abhishek Bachchan, Preity Zinta "Tum sirf ek wafadar jamadar ho," says Shah Rukh Khan to Rani Mukerjee, who is obsessed with cleanliness. "Yeh mera garibkhana hai," says Amitabh Bachchan to wedding caterer Kirron Kher, who replies: "Aur yeh mera khana hai." If only the entire movie was as unself-consciously screwball, Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna would have established Karan Johar's mastery over the four-hankies-and-40-laughs genre. Instead he decides to grow up in a hurry and take the beloved Rahul/Raj with him. In the process, he loses the balance he has always maintained between pulling the heartstrings and making audiences laugh, while keeping hair and make-up intact. In spite of some distinctly non-family scenes, including one where the adulterous couple books a hotel room and Shah Rukh takes off his shirt (shock, horror), the film settles down in the second half. The stars refrain from wearing gorgeous overcoats every time it rains and the emotional declarations are accompanied by a chorus. Shah Rukh looks uncomfortable in his skin, Mukerjee has perfected the art of weeping copiously and smiling valiantly and Preity Zinta's face seems to have been rendered temporarily immobile, while Abhishek is deft at his puppy-turned-philosopher role. Messages left on voice mail, self-improvement books, café dates, and discussions about bedroom techniques-the trappings of modern love are in place-now all we need is for Johar to find his new métier. -By Kaveree Bamzai | ||||||
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| EXHIBITION | ||||||
| Sensual Imagery | ||||||
The gallery, which has been designed with modern adjustable lighting, comes at a perfect time, on the birth centenary of legendary sculptor Ramkinkar Baij and pays a tribute to his genius with its first show. "In the last four decades the sculpture scene in India has undergone a sea change, and we find three or four generations working simultaneously at any given point of time, producing sculptures in stone, bronze, terracotta, fibreglass, cloth, junk, concrete, wood, and various other materials," says curator Prayag Shukla. Shilpakriti is trying to showcase the entire range of works through its exhibition. The sculptors whose works find display are Satish Gujral, Uma Siddhanta, Bipin Goswami, Nagji Patel, and 25 others. At Aakriti Art Gallery, Kolkata, from August 12 to 27. -By Swagata Sen | ||||||
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| The Risks of Life | ||||||
 DELHI: Birendra Pani, the son of a carpenter, in his exhibition "Risk, the Double Edge of Society", has gone back to "excavation". From the recesses of memory, he has infused life in the young and languishing gotipua, who is facing a slow annihilation. The bi-polarity of India is reflected in his work. Pani uses metaphor, allegory, tradition, and the tenets of yoga to build upon his existing language, which is becoming more and more cosmopolitan. The other show, "The Anecdote And Its Shadow", by Tanmoy Samanta presents the material world through banal objects. From August 21-September 2. At Gallery Espace. | ||||||
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| Spiritual Frames | ||||||
-By Aditi Pai | ||||||
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