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Gulzar and Tom Alter read from Gulzar’s new book, Ghalib

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The lilting words of Ghalib through the mesmerizing voices of Gulzar and Tom Alter received an absolutely packed audiences at Natarani last month. In an event jointly sponsored with the Corner Bookstore, the popular and greatly admired lyricist and poet signed autographs, chatted with and read to a packed house. The programme ran an hour longer than scheduled and many eager people had to be turned away.

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Mapin releases Sudeep Sen’s new book, Rain

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Program Schedule for May 2008
7 May 2005 - 20:30
Ek Rakabi Footi - Gujarati play
Katha Kavya - based on a poem by Sahil Parmar, Directed by Chetan Daiya & Jayesh Solanki
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8 May 2005 - 20:30
Nagarahole
Nagarahole (Documentary Film) - Tales from an Indian Jungle – An Eco Media film
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9 May 2005 - 20:30
Silent Valley - An Indian Rainforest

Silent Valley - An Indian Rainforest (Documentary Film) – Produced and Photographed by Shekar Dattatri

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10 May 2005 - 20:30
King Cobra
King Cobra (Documentary Film) - Produced by Romulus Whitaker & Richard Matthews and written by Allison Agro and Richard McBrien  -  English

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11 May 2005 - 08:30
Spunkey Monkey

Spunkey Monkey  produced by Romulusss Whitaker  and written by Jon Goodman and Joe Kennedy

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12 May 2005 - 20:30
Neem: Wonder Tree

Neem Wonder Tree  on  health, Medicine and Women Directed by Likka Vehkafahti - English

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13 May 2005 - 20:30
Drakhi

Drakhi - relation between Somu and his cow Drakhi - English/ Hindi

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14 May 2005 - 20:30
TAAP

“can’t say about human beings but it is very easy to burn a woman“ A play depicting the various means through which men humiliate, insult and strangle womanhood. Written by Naishadh Purani, Directed by Maishadh Purani and Devendra Trivedi, assisted by Parth Divetiya, Music Malav Divetiya.

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21 May 2005 - 20:30
Saiya Bhaya Kotwal

A play  directed by Ujjwal  Dave, Music – Nisarg Trivedi  peformed by  students of the Drama Workshop, Written by  Vasant Sabnish in Marathi. Translated by Usha Banerjee

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29 May 2005 - 20:30
Darpana Celebrates Mohra Vagarna Chehra

Darpana Communications and the team of Mohra Vagarna Chehra is organizing an event at Natarani on Sunday May 29th celebrating a 130 women who have inspired us by ripping off societally endorsed masks and sharing their struggle, joys and pain with the viewers of Aapni Bapor on DD11, to inspire them to walk to their own tunes.

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2 May 2008 - 20:30
Sapphire Creations presents ‘Positive Lives’

Positive Lives is a dance-visual montage presentation that tells the story of people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA). Through a unique marriage dance music and photography, the montage seeks to eliminate stigma and reduction against PLWHA, which prevents them from living with dignity and realizing their full potential as citizens of India.

The production is a joint initiative of Sapphire, an experimental dance company; SPARSHA, a support agency for PLWHA and their friends, and SAATHII, an agency that provides capacity building support to HIV/AIDS service providers.

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3 May 2008 - 20:30
Sapphire Creations presents ‘Souls in Tranzit’

SOULS IN TRANZIT, a presentation mentored by Chitra Sundaram of UK and Harikrishnan of Canada in a  program for dancers and movement artistes organized by Alliance Franchise and www.narthaki.com in Chennai in August. The dancers created this  new work with the guidance of the above mentors. It was premiered to rave reviews in Kolkata in January 2008 at Palladian (Bengal Chamber of Commerce)

Dwaitagati

An acrobatic duet which is ferocious and sensuous at the same time set to the international music of Bond, this piece is a sheer treat .Performed across at various venues in India , it has been critically acclaimed everywhere.

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10 May 2008 - 20:30
Just Us Repertory presents ‘DARK HORSE’

Walking down Arun Kolatkar’s Lane – A Performance using dialogue, verse and music to explore the reclusive poet’s mind.

This is based on a single meeting between a woman journalist and Arun Kolatkar, one of the finest contemporary poets of India, at a restaurant in Kolatkar’s favorite Kala Ghoda area in old Mumbai.

Years after that meeting, when the journalist learns of Kolatkar’s death, she recalls how she first heard of the man in her girlhood, read his poems in her college days, and how deeply they affected her perspective. She trances the events that led to her encounter with the reclusive man, and relives her interview with him,. As they talk, the poems come alive and are performed against a sounds cape of music. Their talk begins with wariness and some suspicion, but ends on a moment of intimacy.

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11 May 2008 - 20:30
Just Us Repertory presents ‘WATER LILIES : A Trilogy’

In each play, two strangers, a Man and a Woman, claiming different racial origins, meet by accident in a public space in the U.S. As they share confidences and spill secrets, the casual encounters trigger reflection.

The characters wonder : can they hold on to values after all, and resist the bloodtide swelling around them?

Can they believe that beauty and compassion are as real as their everyday fear and pain?

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16 May 2008 - 20:30
Nazariya - Drishti – Natarani Film Club presents IAWART FILM FESTIVAL

Everyday  :  Anupama Srinivasan

A reflection on relationships. A story of a  pigeon   -  7 minutes

Manpasand The Perfect Match  :   Dhwani Desai

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17 May 2008 - 20:30
Nazariya - Drishti – Natarani Film Club presents IAWART FILM FESTIVAL

Taaza Khabar:  Bishakha Dutta

An all-woman team of journalists publish “ Khabar Lahariya “ from  a small town in Uttar Pradesh, covering all the news that the mainstream media forgot -  31 minutes

Migration : Mira Nair

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18 May 2008 - 20:30
Nazariya - Drishti – Natarani Film Club presents IAWART FILM FESTIVAL

M S Amma :  Swati Thiyagrajan

A shy girl from Madurai . A journey into the life and times of legendary M S Subalakshmi through the eyes of her granddaughter – 22 minutes

The Birth of a Brain Fly :  Nandita Kumar

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24 May 2008 - 20:30
Nazariya - Drishti – Natarani Film Club Presents ‘7 Islands and a Metro’

The multilingual Bombay, the Bombay of intolerance, the Bombay of closed mills, of popular culture, sprawling slums and real estate onslaughts, the metropolis of numerous ghettos, the El Dorado. This film is a tale of the cities of Bom Bahia / Bombay / Mumbai, through a tapestry of fiction, cinema vérité, art objects, found footage, sound installation and literary texts.

The non-fiction feature film is structured around imaginary debates between Ismat Chugtai and Sadat Hasan Manto, the two legendary writers who lived in this metropolis, over the art of chronicling these multi-layered overlapping cities. Shot mainly during the monsoon the film portrays some extremely beautiful yet ruthlessly violent features of Bombay, which, generally, are not part of the popular narratives.

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Tom Alter will present an evening of jazz and poetry at Natarani, with the Mapin Publishing’s release of Sudeep Sen’s new book, Rain. In this beautiful, inspiring treasure of a book, Sudeep Sen, the internationally acclaimed author of Postmarked India: New & amp; Selected Poems (HarperCollins), reflects on rain—its passion and politics, its beauty and fury, its ability to “douse and arouse”. He ultimately explores the various moods that water and fluids inherently unravel. The evocative art by an impressive array of leading contemporary Indian artists that accompany the writing are not meant to illustrate the text, but simply to act as an aesthetic counter-point, leit-motiv, and antithesis—thus creating a fine tension and balance between words and images. Sudeep Sen’s fiction which is at the same time balletic and precise, poetic and minimalist, stylized and wise, combines the virtual and visual—coalescing to convey the intensely special magic of monsoon rains as felt in the Indian subcontinent.



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