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All set for the
TIDES OF
MARCH
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After the heady victory
against Pakistan, India is bracing to take on England in a Test and
one-day series. The overpowering force of the playing-to-win streak
has renewed confidence in Team India. Abhijit
Chatterjee looks at this turnabout in India’s fortunes. Ivninderpal
Singh describes the bowlers in attack mode and Ramandeep
Singh profiles master blasters Mahendra Singh Dhoni and Yuvraj
Singh.
Suddenly
Indian cricket has turned around on its head. After some lacklustre
one-day performances in 2005 with a victory against out-of-form Sri
Lanka and a tied series against South Africa, Indian cricket is seeing
a resurgence with the team performing so cohesively in Pakistan where
the team bounced back to win the one-day series after losing the Test
series.
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Creativity
at play
The recent Theatre Utsav in
Delhi saw many interesting innovations and fusion of different
audio-visual techniques, writes Chaman Ahuja
CHARTING
India out — theatrically!" That being the legend of the 8th
edition of Bharat Rang Mahotsava (now rechristened as Theatre Utsava),
the festival had not only representative works of the mainstream but
also an array of innovative creativity.
Viva carnival
Thousands of tourists
come to Goa every year for the four-day carnival. Ervell
E. Menezes reports
rom February 25, Goa
starts celebrating the Carnival, a four-day splash of enjoyment before
the austere Christian season of Lent. And though thousands of tourists
come to Goa especially for the event, it takes different hues
for different folk. What’s more its metamorphosis continues.
‘I
depend a lot on my director’
An actor’s job is very
tricky because he or she has got to fulfil someone else’s vision,
say someone else’s lines, Konkona Sen Sharma tells V.
Ananth
Konkona
is excited. Because she has followed up the success of Page 3 with
encomiums galore—her brilliant performance in mother Aparna Sen’s
latest venture 15 Park Avenue as well as Rajat Kapoor’s Mixed
Doubles. At the outset Konkana clarifies that Mixed Doubles isn’t
a sleazy sex comedy about wife swapping.
To the
manner born
Nutan was perhaps the
first heroine to risk playing unconventional roles as in Bandini. When
squeakers ruled the roost, she fine-tuned her dialogue delivery with
an evocative voice,
writes M.L.
Dhawan
NUTAN
was barely nine years old when she faced the camera in the film Nal
Damyanti. Her mother Shobhana Samarth in Hamari Beti in
1950 launched her. In those days the heroines were big boned and in Nagina
Nutan was scoffed at for being skinny. In Hum Log
released in 1951, Nutan projected the emotions of a tuberculosis
patient so realistically that she went on to win laurels.
The
violence of inequality
Michael Heneke graphically
brings out the ambience of French society in Hidden. The tone
captures how the French look down upon the immigrants or the
underdogs, observes Ervell E. Menezes
Michael
Heneke is a keen student of violence and his films often
capture individuals or society on the edge. In The Piano Teacher (2001)
he had Isabelle Huppert on the edge of her tether with loneliness. In Hidden
it is a bourgeois French family whose peaceful existence is
suddenly interrupted by a voyeur who keeps sending them messages of
impending doom.
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