Saturday, August 3, 2013
THEATRE TO WATCH OUT FOR THIS WEEKEND (3-4 AUG'13)
Sat 3rd August
Tunni ki Kahani (Hin) (Dir Gopal Tiwari) Prithvi Theatre Juhu, 12pm
Ok,Tata,Bye Bye (Eng/Hin) (Dir Rabijita Gogoi) Prithvi Theatre Juhu, 6 30 and 9pm
Mele Undir (Mar) (Prod by Astitva Production) NCPA Expt Nariman Point, 6 30pm
Sun 4th August
Tunni ki Kahani (Hin) (Dir Gopal Tiwari) Prithvi Theatre Juhu, 3pm
Ok,Tata,Bye Bye (Eng/Hin) (Dir Rabijita Gogoi) Prithvi Theatre Juhu, 6 30 and 9pm
Broken Images (Eng) (Dir Alyque Padamsee) St Andrews Bandra, 7 45pm
2 to Tango 3 to Jive (Eng) (Dir Saurabh Shukla) Sophia Beach Candy, 7pm
Dear Father (Guj) (Dir Uttam Gada) Chavan Nariman Point, 7 45pm
Shivacharitra ani ek (Mar) (Prod by Natak Company - Pune) NCPA Expt Nariman Point 3pm
Ek divas Mathakade (Mar) (Prod by Natak Company - Pune) NCPA Expt Nariman Point 6 30pm
Thursday, August 1, 2013
Saturday, July 27, 2013
THEATRE TO WATCH OUT FOR THIS WEEKEND (27-28 JULY'13)
Sat 27th July
Tuesdays with Morrie (Eng) (Directed by Meera Khurana) Prithvi theatre Juhu 6 and 9 pm
The Vagina Monologues (Eng) (Directed by Mahabano Mody Kotwal) Canvas Laugh Factory, Lower Parel 6pm
The Frying Pan (Eng) (Directed by Murtuza Kutianawala) St. Andrews Bandra 7 30 pm
Sun 28th July
Tuesdays with Morrie (Eng) (Directed by Meera Khurana) Prithvi theatre Juhu 5 and 8 pm
The Vagina Monologues (Eng) (Directed by Mahabano Mody Kotwal) Canvas Laugh Factory, Lower Parel 6pm
History of India (Eng) (Dir Vir Das) Manik Sabhagraha Bandra, 7pm
Bhelpoori (Hin/Eng) (Dir Rocky S) Mysore Association Matunga, 7 45pm
Fools (Eng) (Dir Meherzad Patel) NCPA Expt Nariman point 7pm
Ji Jaisi Apki Marzi (Dir Nadira Babbar) Godrej Dance Academy (NCPA) Nariman Point, 7pm
Big Fat City (Eng) (Dir Mahesh Dattani) Sophia Auditorium Beach Candy, 7pm
Blame it on Yashraj (Eng) (Dir Bharat Dabholkar) St. Andrews Bandra, 7pm
Thursday, July 25, 2013
SHIP OF THESEUS
Well! What do you say? Sometimes excellence leaves you so spellbound that you silently wonder. Ah! what was that...how is it possible? how come!!!...You are left too numb to express. That is why it takes me almost 30 hours of silent wondering before I can write.
Ok so the Ship flags off with the story of a visually impaired young girl who is an excellent intuitive photographer. She is quite comfortable being there. Being visually impaired and yet being excellent at exploring how beautiful the world is. Then she undergoes a surgery and now has 'vision' but unfortunately doesn't quite know what to do with it. Then we are left at that and the ship takes us to another shore all together. Story of a Jain monk fighting against the use of animals for laboratory tests and the ill treatment they are subjected to before they are experimented on. The fight here goes on to a very different level when he is diagnosed liver cirrhosis. He must take the medicines whose roots lie in the same lab or else die. Then we go into the life of a stock broker who has undergone a kidney transplant. By chance he lays his hands upon a big racket of illegal trade of kidneys.
So many things to offer. Three different stories...three different fights...three different conflicts connected and weaved in so well. What leaves you awestruck is the manner in which they are executed. There is so much detailing so much layering so many dimensions and yet the film is a poetry. The cinematography (Pankaj Kumar) is breathtaking almost always. There are so many misc-en-scene sequences and they flow ever so lucidly. Ok there are certain shots that are out focus but it is more than acceptable. The silhouettes are meticulously worked out. Never a single frame appears lit up and that is where the real beauty is. The production design (Pooja Shetty and Rakesh Yadav) is so low key that everything looks natural and feels in place. Editing (Sanyukta Kaza, Adesh Prasad, Satchit Puranik) a film like this is such a tough job. But everything falls in place and you don't think there is a single frame extra or out of sync. Top notch!
The performances are some of the best seen recently. Aida El- Kashaf (as Aliya Kamal), Neeraj Kabi (as Maitreya), Soham Shah (as Navin) all are in perfect sync with their characters. Their natural performances enhance the film. All in the support cast pull in tight performances.
The biggest punch of the film lies in the scripting (Anand Gandhi, Pankaj Kumar, Khushboo Ranka) and off course the film belongs to its director (Anand Gandhi). Such a film cannot be completed without the vision. Everything is so detailed and yet it just happens like it just happens. Anand Gandhi deserves all the acclaim that he has been getting. The captain of the Ship this one belongs to you!
Tuesday, July 23, 2013
DAMODAR DEEWANO THAYO
Hi friends please read my reivew of the latest Gujarati play Damodar Deewano Thayo on the following link
http://www.mumbaitheatreguide.com/dramas/reviews/23-damodar-deewano-thayo-gujarati-play-review.asp
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