|
|
Mug it up
About memories and what we make of them. Confused? Don’t be, for this is what
Atul Kumar’s play is all about
It is always a delight to watch theatre people. The difference in sensibilities, the whimsical ways of looking at things, the easy flow of life, the dead pan expression that can take umpteen forms, the quirkiness, the subconscious and conscious existence; how they are so intriguing.
Konkona Sen and Rajat Kapoor
— Photo: Pradeep Tewari |
 |
Drama of melodrama
What is drama without melodrama? Indeed. Etymologically, it comes from two words – ‘melos’ meaning song and drama. Used to depict exaggerated emotions, stereotypical characters and interpersonal conflicts; closer home it could be another name for Punjabi theatre.
From tenor to storyline to characters, and often imagery, too little in
the staple of Punjabi theatre is subtle.
What makes melodrama? |
 |
World-wide view
INIFD students take us around the world with their annual show Traveller's Paradise
Enter the room and you are 11,333 feet above the sea level, at the Jungfrau peak, looking at the Sphinx observatory. Take a right and there you have the prospects of a healing massage, under the shady coconut grooves, overlooking the backwaters of
Kerela.
— Photo: Pradeep Tewari |
 |
Voice over
Young Barry Cheema won the PTC Debut Singer Award-2010 for his maiden album
Vahi doh char se sawalon mein, kat gayi raat phir khyalon mein/ Kisi ashiq ka baag ujra
hai, phool mehka hai tere vaalon mein..." This couplet comes from an amateur lyricist, but a model, devout singer, actor and Urdu poetry lover, Barry Cheema (22), who has just announced his arrival on the Punjabi music scene with his maiden album winning the prestigious PTC Debut Singer Award-2010.
Punjabi tadka in Kollywood
It's okay to be forthright. And if it's trendy, why not. So, when we are introduced to Poonam
Kaur, leading lady of South Indian movies, we can't help repeating an inference, 'Those who don't get work in
Bollywood, take a detour to South.'
NEW RELEASES
Partition pang
Film: Sadiyaan
Producer-director: Raj Kanwar
Cast: Luv Sinha, Ferena Wazir, Rekha, Hema Malini, Rishi Kapoor
Raj Kanwar is ready to take the centrestage with a film partly set during Partition.
Sadiyaan, which introduces Shatrughan Sinha's son Luv Sinha alongwith another newcomer Ferena
Wazir.
|
 |
Dream debut
Ferena Wazir, the Kashmir-born and Scotland-bred beauty makes her debut in Bollywood along with Shatrughan Sinha's son Luv Sinha in filmmaker Raj Kanwar's
Sadiyaan, a period drama with Partition in the background.
Cool cottons
Come summers, come cotton exhibitions! Since there's always space to fit in everyone, the more the merrier. Anyways, this one claims to provide both comfort and elegance.
Ongoing exhibition, Pehchaan, is an out and out summer spread.
SIDE LANES
Come April
In Chandigarh, fall and spring arrive simultaneously. As the trees shed their mantle, translucent red and green buds burst from their branches. The speed of creation is magical. Sunsets viewed through the lace-work of green, gold and red, are the stuff of epochal films.
|
