Posts Tagged ‘Theater’

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    The Skeleton Woman @ Prithvi
    Anurag Kashyap Presents: THE SKELETON WOMAN Directed by Nayantara Kotian Written and performed by: Kalki Koechlin and Prashant Prakash 2nd and 3rd june 6pm and 9pm at Prithvi theatre. To book your show, click here
    by Anurag Kashyap at May 29th, 2009 at 10:05 pm
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    Blackbird: Filmi mind @ a play
    I begin this post with a solemn prayer to Lord CinemaIndra that may the producer-exhibitor stand-off get over soon or we cinephiles might soon have to regress and begin to write about stardust awards, saas-bahu soaps or random PFC meets that never happened. So, getting back about what this post was about – BLACKBIRD, a play that I saw today. I had absolutely no...
    by Magik at May 4th, 2009 at 04:05 am
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    Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye! Theater List in the USA and Canada
    Following is the list of theaters that will be screening Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye! in the USA and Canada. Please check with the theater near you for actual showtimes. The movie releases on November 26th, Wednesday in the US. For reviews and info about the movie please check out the movie blog on PFC or please visit OyeLucky.com Galaxy Riverdale 6135 Peachtree Parkway Norcross GA 30092 Atlanta Laurel...
    by UTV Motion Pictures at November 25th, 2008 at 06:11 pm
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    JAZZ in Bollywood – Part II
    A few of my favourite JAZZY things (with HUGE INPUTS by NARESH FERNANDES, Editor, TIME OUT, Mumbai and Denzil Smith, actor and producer of JAZZ) Sorry for the lecture, but here goes! If you’re in a hurry, please scroll to the bottom of this post, straight away! When Hindi film music entered a period of rapid evolution during the Second World War, composers realised...
    by Ramu Ramanathan at January 1st, 2008 at 07:01 am
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    Bollywood vs. The World
    You know, there’s something that’s been on my mind for some time now, but I’ve managed to keep it to myself. Today, in the words of Popeye the Sailorman “That’s all I can stands, I can’t stands no more!” So now let me say this. Who the hell gives a flying fuck about what Hollywood, or the rest of the world thinks about our cinema?!...
    by Tony Mera Naam at November 9th, 2007 at 05:11 pm
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    Pom pom – Horn Ok Pls – Surya boozing – Me writing
    INT SATKAR BAR VIKHROLI, NIGHT It was a nice get together with Surya whom I happened to meet after quite long time. He had been busy with the shooting of the latest film Horn Ok Please for which he is an associate director. Working in 9 to 9 schedules … Not even having the time/energy to FUEL himself up (For those who don’t know, FUEL is the brand of vodka...
    by kartik krishnan at November 3rd, 2007 at 10:11 pm
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    Panel Discussion of Casting Agents & Producers in LA!!
    Hi Folks, Details of the panel discussion that I am putting together in LA, next Thursday. Panel Discussion on Casting Agents/Producers in LA (aka the folks who can really, really) make all the difference in your creative life: WHERE and WHEN: Thursday, Nov 1, 2007, in Los Angeles.                 Tanzore Restaurant / www.tanzore.com                ...
    by Vivek Kumar at October 28th, 2007 at 12:10 am
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    Call For The Biggest South Asian Audition In Bay Area!
    Hi Folks, For those of you, especially from the Bay Area, but also from other nearby geographies (just because it is easier logisitically) , who wanted to be a part of the BOLLYWOOD ENSEMBLE, but never had the opportunity to do so, here is your big chance!!! A play to be held in San Jose, which will mark the DIRECTORIAL DEBUT of Bollywood’s numero uno ART DIRECTOR,...
    by Vivek Kumar at August 4th, 2007 at 11:08 am
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    PROJEKT iVIEW : IPTA warms spirit of Independence
    iVIEW AUTHOR: Kumar Gautam (Bombay, India) email: writerdirectorgautam [at] gmail.com The year 2007 sees 150th year of first war of Indian Independence and look there are no media players to cash on this occasion. And why will there be one? Nationalism is a feeling of past and it doesn’t sell. They say love for motherland is the most exaggerated form of love and only...
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at July 25th, 2007 at 12:07 am
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    Why I Supported Americanizing Shelley
    Hi Folks, Administering SAAFA for a few years now, have always had a fair share of folks wanting to collaborate or seek out assistance to make a film. In all this time, the honest truth be told, NOT ONE, project caught the attention of our trying to make a TRUE , “let’s go to the mainstream, as opposed to ghettoise” ourself film. The last one made in...
    by Vivek Kumar at May 2nd, 2007 at 06:05 pm
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    Chatting with Satyadev Dubey
    The Architect of Modern Theatre What question would leading theatrewallahs put to Satyadev Dubey? Satish Alekar, Vijay Tendulkar, Chetan Datar, Mahesh Elkunchwar asked questions. And then, Satyadev Dubey responded. Rishi Mazumdar was entrusted with the onerous task of keeping pace with Dubey in his elements. It’s with this background, that I (Ramu Ramanathan) accompanied...
    by Ramu Ramanathan at April 9th, 2007 at 08:04 pm
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    Happy Birthday Theatre
    Happy World Theatre’s Day To All Of Us! 1. We are in 2007. Where Bollywood meets Hollywood meets Silicon Valley. Sillywood it can be called. And the one asset which is missing, is human imagination. 2. The theatre I grew up in, is having an identity crisis. What is it? Remember when we switched from extravaganzas to musical theatre to realism? Then to neo-realism....
    by Ramu Ramanathan at March 29th, 2007 at 11:03 pm
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    Theatre Interpretations to Pop Theories
    Theatre Interpretations to Pop Theories - Plays come and go, but debts accumulate! - In this day and age, mounting a play is like attempting the high jump. So, you’ve a team and you’ve to win the high jump. But the seven people in your team can jump one foot each. Either you quit the theatre or you must launch a fulsome tirade against the unfair rules in high jump!...
    by Ramu Ramanathan at February 8th, 2007 at 10:02 am
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    My Prithvi Story …
    My Prithvi Story … Like everyone I’ve got a solid piece of advise. After a particularly poor house of an “award winning” play of mine that nobody understood: COLLABORATORS, I was consoled by Tiwariji at Prithvi Theatre. He consoled me, by saying, look into the sky, sometimes even the sky is empty! Since that day, I’ve always paid heed to...
    by Ramu Ramanathan at January 19th, 2007 at 10:01 am
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    Censorship: And Theatre in India
    Nagpur. 23rd and 24th September. Three shows of the Hindi play COTTON 56, POLYESTER 84 were cancelled. The cancellation of the shows were on a technicality: improper licensing. But if that was the case how does one explain, two armoured vans, plaincloth policemen, tearing down of banners of the plays, cutting off the power supply in the auditorium, messages hurtling through...
    by Ramu Ramanathan at December 22nd, 2006 at 09:12 am
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    A conversation with Sir Vijay Tendulkar
    On 17th dec 06, i was at NCPA for my first performance in mumbai,thanx to Thespo8 and Quasar Padamsay. My theatre gang from IT BHU,varanasi had arrived to watch it,12 of them.one of my juniors,abhijeet before coming to mumbai, had a talk with Sir Vijay Tendulkar on phone and had asked for a meeting during his visit to which he had agreed. On 18th march,while all of them...
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at December 20th, 2006 at 07:12 am
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    Dowry anyone? A movie story
    Last week Babul was released with widow re-marriage as its base subject. The led me to seeking out more women issues that plagues India. My search took me to the dowry issue. I looked up the judiciary system and found Indian Penal Code 498a, the anti-dowry law. Following is an excerpt of the same “Whoever, being the husband or the relative of the husband of a woman,...
    by Muzzy at December 14th, 2006 at 02:12 pm
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    Song Project – Part I
    A recent post by HG on musicals reminded me of a project that I did few months back. It was based on Exploration of the Song in the Hindi film. The project was called Are You Song For It/Whose Song Is It Anyway? I plan to share some of the text from that project here in a series of articles. Here I go again. Bollywood. Songs. Dreams. Exploration of thought. Tradeoff of...
    by Tushar at December 10th, 2006 at 01:12 am
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    NO SMOKING – VISHAL – PIYUSH – GAJJU – MANISH – RANVIR – AYESHA
    NO SMOKING – VISHAL – PIYUSH – GAJJU – MANISH – RANVIR – AYESHA Ok this is a longish post … covering my interactions with the aforementioned people…. since what has happened has already been covered by anurag in his post here… I’m delving into a more personal one-on-one level discussion with these people. Additionally,...
    by kartik krishnan at December 3rd, 2006 at 09:12 am
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    Lost In Translation
    Time and time again, Bollywood movie makers have been called copycats for lifting an idea, script or complete scenes from various global movies. This was all OK before the early 80’s as not many Hindi movie-goers were subjected to the global cinema, especially Hollywood. There have been rumors of writers renting out 10 DVD’s, lifting a scene from here, a dialogue from...
    by Muzzy at November 26th, 2006 at 08:11 am
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    Omkara,Maqbool and the Shakespearean connection – a post mortem
    Omkara,Maqbool and the Shakespearean connection – a post mortem Hey everyone…I’m posting an intresting topic of discussion.. which i had posted in an online community … This is also because i’ve read both the plays (Macbeth and Othello) and am a die hard Vishaal- Shakespeare fan !! Additionally these are what I had discussed with my Mausi...
    by kartik krishnan at November 8th, 2006 at 11:11 pm
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    Akira kurosawa
    Akira kurosawa’s RAN : Waah-miyan- shake-sphere – his best Warning: This is a looong review … Spoilers and dialogues galore!!! There’s something about Shakespeare’s plays… his tragedies in particular which rivet you and grab your attention. Be it the two adaptations by Vishal bhardwaj (Omkara- Othello, Maqbool- Macbeth) or kurosawa’s Ran (King Lear) and...
    by kartik krishnan at October 28th, 2006 at 02:10 am
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    Master of the Arts II – Singeetham’s Films – An Analysis
    What makes a master, Master? “In Raj Kapoor’s Jis Des Mein Ganga Behti Hai, one guy plays an instrument and challenges Raj Kapoor. Raj Kapoor concedes to that guy and says you are really great, I don’t want to challenge you. I believe in that concept. As long as one thinks great of themselves, they do not achieve any thing. Which is the reason I am...
    by wb at October 17th, 2006 at 10:10 pm
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    Master of the Arts
    “Had I not been a film maker” said this man once, “I would have been a teacher and built a school on the lines of Shantiniketan“. No bout a doubt it, if we were to look at his extensive experimentation with cinematic work and his exhaustive toolbox of skills, including writing, music and painting. After half a century of film making career –...
    by wb at October 16th, 2006 at 11:10 pm
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