The Mint Planner, 24 July 2015
From music and movies to dance and drama, there's plenty to do or experience over the coming week
OTHERS :
Delhi
Theatre
The Government Inspector
25 July
Russian dramatist Nikolai Gogol wrote The Government Inspector in 1836 as a satirical play. Set in a small town beset with corruption, this Hindi-English comedy of errors has been adapted and directed by Akarsh Khurana. 2 hours.
7pm. Stein Auditorium, India Habitat Centre, Lodi Road (43663333). Tickets, ₹ 350 and ₹ 500, available on in.bookmyshow.com
Art
Poubi Lai—The Story Of A Giant Python
Till 31 August
10am-5pm (closed on Mondays and public holidays). Special Exhibition Hall-I, First floor, National Museum, Janpath (23019272).
Film
Stories From Australia
Till 25 July
This film festival features eight award-winning documentaries from Australia made in the last two years. The list includes the 84-minute Love Marriage In Kabul, directed by Pat Fiske and Amin Palangi; the 106-minute Scarlet Road by Catherine Scott and Fiske; the 90-minute Jabbed—Love, Fear And Vaccines by Sonya Pemberton; and Christopher Houghton’s 80-minute Sons And Mothers.
Timings vary. CD Deshmukh Auditorium, IIC, 40, India International Centre, Lodi Estate (24619431).
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Around town
An Artsy Affair
30 July-2 August
Self-taught artist Trishna Patnaik will conduct one-day workshops each on creating works in Warli, the folk art style of Maharashtra; Madhubani, an art form of Bihar; African art (the focus will be on stick “dancing" figures); and a workshop on painting abstracts and landscapes using coffee.
3pm. Zorba—The Buddha, Ghitorni. To register, call 9311902245 or email radiate@gmail.com.
Mumbai
Theatre
Normal
24 July
Khushboo Upadhyay’s Normal is based on Scottish playwright Anthony Neilson’s work of the same name. A play with dark overtones, Normal is about Peter Kurten, one of Germany’s most notorious serial killers. 1 hour, 40 minutes.
6.30pm. Godrej Dance Theatre, National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA), NCPA Marg, Nariman Point (22824567). Tickets, ₹ 150, available on in.bookmyshow.com
Dance
Raindrops Festival
24-26 July
The Sam Ved Society for
Performing Arts will present
the Raindrops Festival of
classical dance over three days. Among the performers are
Radhika Nair (Mohiniattam), Namrata Gupta (Odissi), Rina Mehta (Kathak), Shreya Ayyub (Manipuri) and Mrinalini Biswas (Bharatanatyam).
4pm. Mini Theatre, Ravindra Natya Mandir, next to Siddhivinayak Temple,
Prabhadevi, Dadar (West).
Music
Tradition
30 July
Hindustani classical vocalist Ashwini Bhide Deshpande will open this live music concert. She will be followed by Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia on flute.
7pm. Nehru Centre, Dr Annie Besant Road, Worli (24964676). Tickets, ₹ 200, ₹ 300, ₹ 400 and ₹ 500, available on in.bookmyshow.com
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Music
Unite: The Mirror To Tomorrowland
25 July
Couldn’t make it to the three-day electronic music festival ‘Tomorrowland’, starting today in Belgium? Well, you can experience the festival’s last day in an indoor stadium via live streaming. Artistes like Martin Garrix and Armin van Buuren will perform.
11pm. Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Stadium, National Sports Club of India, Worli. Tickets, 2,071 and 4,000, available on in.bookmyshow.com.
By Shinibali Mitra Saigal
Kolkata
Dance
Padmaavati
24 July
Odissi exponent Debamitra Sengupta and her group will present a dance drama based on Padmaavati, daughter of the 15th century king of Puri. The music is by Bijay Jena.
6.30pm. Satyajit Ray Auditorium, Indian Council for Cultural Relations, 9A, Ho Chi Minh Sarani (22822895). Seating on first-come, first-served basis.
Theatre
Bipannata
28 July
Kolkata-based theatre group Nandikar will stage Bipannata, which revolves around Sulagna Dutta, who is suffering from psychosis. 1 hour, 30 minutes.
7pm. Academy of Fine Arts, 2, Cathedral Road. Tickets, ₹ 100 and ₹ 200, available at the venue.
Film
Westwind
24 July
Directed by Robert Thalheim, this 2011 film traces the story of teenage twin sisters, both promising rowers from East Germany. 1 hour, 29 minutes.
6.30pm. Goethe-Institut/Max Mueller Bhavan, 8, Ballygunge Circular Road, Ballygunge (24866398).
By Indranil Bhoumik
Chennai
Art
Sienna Season
Till 31 July
Bhopal-based artist Anil Gaikwad is showcasing 19 abstract paintings, mostly in brown and blue. Gaikwad is known for his abstracts, pastel paintings and sculptures.
10am-6pm (Tuesday closed). Varija Art Gallery, DakshinaChitra, Muttukadu, East Coast Road (27472603). Prices, ₹ 60,000 to ₹ 3.50 lakh. Entry, ₹ 100 (for adults) and ₹ 30 (for those below 12); and ₹ 250 (for foreigners).
Theatre
James And The Giant Peach
24 July
Written in 1961 by British author Roald Dahl, James And The Giant Peach takes you through the adventures of James Henry, who is forced to live with his vile aunts after his parents are eaten by a rhinoceros. One day James chances upon a giant peach, and his life changes.
6pm. The Music Academy, New No.168 (Old No.306), TTK Road (28112231). Tickets, ₹ 700, available on in.bookmyshow.com
Osama, Cinema And A Whole Lot Of Black Money
25-26 July
Stray Factory will present Osama, Cinema And A Whole Lot Of Black Money, a collection of the theatre group’s four award-winning short plays put together to create an hour-long performance. Over the course of the show, you will travel with the unlikeliest of characters and places—cinematic villages, balloon-popping politicians, narcissistic actors, even bumbling government officials.
7.15pm; also 4pm (Sunday). Alliance Française, 24, College Road, Nungambakkam (28279803). Tickets, ₹ 200, available on www.eventjini.com
By Nandini Reddy
Hyderabad
Film
O Bai and Surabhi Family—In Life, In Drama
24 July
O Bai is a 29-minute feature film about a bangle seller who revels in the brief moments of contact with women as he expertly slips bangles over their hands.
Surabhi Family—In Life, In Drama is a 52-minute documentary film on Sri Venkateswara Natya Mandali (Surabhi), a family of 65 theatre artistes who have a long tradition of performing mythological plays for about 130 years.
Both films are written and directed by Neeta Jain Duhaut.
7pm. Alliance Française, Plot No.4, Aurora Colony, Road No.3, Banjara Hills (23554485/86).
Theatre
Itna To Chalta Hai—A Modern Nautanki
25 July
Directed by Saurabh Gharipurikar, this play is structured like a modern nautanki and focuses on certain illogical circumstances created by a group of people. The humour is circumstantial.
1 hour.
8pm. Lamakaan, Road No.1, Banjara Hills. Tickets, ₹ 100, available at the venue and on in.bookmyshow.com. For details, call 9290013166.
Around town
Hyderabad Comedy Festival
25-26 July
Eleven comics will tickle your funny bone over four shows during two days at the Hyderabad Comedy Festival. Avinash Agarwal, Rohit Swain, Vipul Goyal and Appurv Gupta will be among the performers.
5pm/7pm. State Gallery of Fine Arts, CBI Colony, Road No.44, Jubilee Hills. Tickets, ₹ 400, ₹ 600 and ₹ 1,500, available on in.bookmyshow.com
By Yogendra Kalavalapalli
Bengaluru
Art
Blank Slate
Till 1 August
Blank Slate features an assortment of abstract paintings and mixed-media works by contemporary artists, including Gurudas Shenoy, Jasu Rawal, Madhuri Kathe, Naina Maithani and Yuvan Bothi Sathuvar.
10am-7pm (Sunday closed). Kynkyny Art Gallery, 104, Embassy Square (40926202). Prices, starting from ₹ 25,000.
Music
Ministry Of Blues
25 July
9pm. B-Flat, 776, 100 Feet Road, Indiranagar, 2nd Stage (42414000). Tickets, ₹ 400, available on in.bookmyshow.com
Kalpana Patowary
24-25 July
Singer Kalpana Patowary blends folk forms like purvi, pachra and kajri into her music. Patowary’s music also has elements of classical music, electronic fusion and Assamese folk.
9.30pm. Windmills Craftworks, 331, 5B Road, Epip Zone, Whitefield (80233322). Tickets, ₹ 500 and ₹ 1,000, available on in.bookmyshow.com
Theatre
She-He-Shey
24 July
Directed by Shaili Sathyu, She-He-Shey is a play in English, Hindi and Bengali. The play, presented by Mumbai’s Gillo Theatre Repertory, is an adaptation of Rabindranath Tagore’s book Shey, a collection of stories of extraordinary adventures, created for his nine-year-old granddaughter, Nandini. 1 hour, 20 minutes.
7pm. Seva Sadan, 13th Cross Road, Malleswaram (23347830). Tickets, ₹ 200, available on in.bookmyshow.com
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Dance
Krishna
26 July
Actor and dancer Shobana and her ensemble will present ‘Krishna’. In this production, sourced from the ‘Shri Krishna Charitra’, the audience is invited to travel through Vrindavan, Mathura and Kurukshetra, experiencing the pivotal moments and virtues of Krishna, his philosophy and all-encompassing nature. This work is a multimedia spectacle that brings together light, sound and movement.
6pm. Chowdiah Memorial Hall GD Park Extension, 16th Cross, Vyalikaval (23445810). Tickets, ₹ 1,000, 1,500, 2,000 and ₹ 3,000, available on in.bookmyshow.com and www.indianstage.in
By Priyadarshini Nandy
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