Lamakaan

A collection of minimalist & impressionist paintings by artist couple Aamira Abdullah & Abdullah Khan.

These paintings can best be described as minimalist, expressionist, geometric, zen. They use carefully selected colour and large scale to evoke vivid perceptual and emotional responses in its viewers. They are designed to soothe and to allow the mind and eye to wander and relax, to enter an almost meditative state. We wanted to design the paintings to allow one to take a step back and look at the bigger picture of things, to allow attention to be invested a little at a time in an age where we are constantly bombarded with and distracted by visual stimuli, and to slow down a little so one could appreciate the present moment and contemplate it. The idea was also that in a stressful situation, if you were to sit down in front of it, it should calm you, benefit you in some way.

Year 2026, this short movie(14Mins) presents story of a rich person Nawab saheb who is struggling to find water for his daughter's marriage. Want to know more, watch this comedy short movie to visualize the danger the mankind is going to face if it water crisis continues and if no concrete steps are taken for water preservation.

RANGADHAARA THE THEATRE STREAMS PRESENTS, a Hindi one Act play "MAA......CHAAI" on 28th May 2016 @ 8.00pm

The one act play, 'MAA….CHAAI' is a subtle hu­mour and inexplicable emotion which revolves around a freewheeling conversation that a young man has with his pals on the next night after losing his mother to dreadful disease. How he reacts to the circumstances when he confronts his friends around him.

HQC's monthly quiz for May !
All are welcome.

Samahaara Comedy Night: 11th Edition

Date: 29th May 2016
Venue: Lamakaan, Banjara Hills
Time: 8pm

Directed by Rathna Shekar Reddy

It's baaaaaaaack, with a new set of short plays and stand-up comedy. Remember how much fun we had last time? It's going to be Double the Fun as always with Comedy Plays and Stand-up. Get that funny bone tickled with mad, funny, impish, satirical and hilarious characters and situations.

For ages 18 years and above.

Donation Rs.100/-

Lagori - An abstract performance - just like the game of piled stones and a ball, this performance is about compilation of thoughts weaved through a needle of idea to perform some personal thoughts, a mix of poetry and drama to explore the present in the art and something very personal.

Performed by Abhilasha B Paul, Krishna Shukla, Krishna, Sandeep Yadav.

Donor Pass : 100/- Rupees Only
+91 9296153233

Inviting all for an evening of 7 classical Dances presented by Nrityaarpan students. The dancers will present Bharatanatyam, Kathak, Kathakali, Kuchipudi, Andhranatyam, Mohiniyattam, Odissi dances at 6:30pm on Wednesday Jun 1st.

All are welcome. Entry - Free.

|| Gardhabandam (గార్ధబాండం) ||

గార్ధబాండం అంటే చట్టుక్కున అర్ధం అవలేదా? గర్ధబాండం అంటే.. గాడిదగుడ్డు. అవును గాడిద గుడ్డే. తెలుగు కవి, రచయత, నటులు, దర్శకులు ఐన తనికెళ్ళ భరణి (Tanikella Bharani) గారు రచించిన ఈ గార్ధబాండం మీ అందరి ముందుకి మంచ్ థియేటర్ ప్రవేశ పెడుతుంది.
దశాబ్దాలు క్రితం రాసినా .. ఇంకా ఈ నాటకం యొక్క వన్నెకి .. e సమాజం యొక్క స్థితిగతికి పెద్దగా మార్పు రాలేదు..
అరాచక రాజ్యపు యంత్రాంగాన్ని.. అక్కరకు రాని, అర్హత లేని రాజుని.. వీరి వల్ల ప్రజలు పడే బాధల్ల్ని హాస్య సన్నివేశాల మిశ్రమం తొ మీ అందరికి కడుపుబ్బా నవ్వు.. మనసున కాస్త మదనము అందించే నాటికయే ఈ మా గార్ధబాండం. .

రచన: శ్రీ తనికెళ్ళ భరణి గారు,

దర్శకత్వం: శ్రీకాంత్ బాణాల,

నటులు : నీలేష్ అహంకారి || సులేమాన్ || సుందర్ || శ్రీనివాస్ వల్లాల || సుమన్ సింగసాని || భరత్ రెడ్డి ||

తేది: June, 8:00pm.


Manch Theatre is back, this time with an eminent play Gaardhabandam from an eminent playwright, actor, Director Sri Tanikella Bharani Garu,
Gaardhabandam, which literally means Donkey’s Egg(Gaadidha Guddu) is a play which is written decades ago is still relevant in the present social scenario. The play is a mix of fictional mythology and contemporary social issues faced by the common man, a satire on inherited political power with a rib tickling conversations. This play will make you laugh to the core and carry a sense of belonging coming to the very end of the play
Come grab your seats and enjoy the cool environment and fun in the unorthodox authentic Telugu play.


Tickets will be available in BookMyShow.com, 99doing.com and at the venue from 6pm.

Young people (of all genders) between the ages of 18-25 will participate in a series of focus group discussions on gender, identity and media. 3FGDs are to take place in the month of June. 3rd, 10th, and the 18th.

Two apartments, a rape and a mystery. Peace Out- A play by Sagar Keswani, Arvind Sunder, and Rajshekar Behar.

Plot Summary of the play:

Christina has a weird situation at hand. The good news is, she has a blurred memory of last night, one of the best nights of her life. The bad news is, that’s the only thing she has.
How can you have a great time with someone and not remember who it was? Well, to answer that question, Christina needs to find out who it was. And then, there is the dreaded possibility of the entire incident being a smartly executed rape.
Her suspects? Four guys who live across the street, and dropped her home the previous night.
Her accomplice? Savitri, Christina’s worried roommate who can’t even comprehend what’s going on.
So who was it? One of the four guys? Or all of the four guys? The girls have no choice. They have to take it upon themselves, and get to the bottom of this.
Will the ‘rapist’ reveal himself? Only time will tell.

About the cast:
A bright young cast in their early twenties, waiting to break into the theater scene in Hyderabad with their debut stint. This cast has more in common than just the one fact that all of them are BITS Pilani alumnus, a passion for theater.

For passes: https://in.bookmyshow.com/hyderabad/events/peace-out/ET00041987

Two apartments, a rape and a mystery. Peace Out- A play by Sagar Keswani, Arvind Sunder, and Rajshekar Behar.

Plot Summary of the play:
A hungover Savitri wakes up on a Saturday morning, only to recollect the horrors of the previous night. She has to break it to her roommate Christina, that someone had raped her last night, taking full advantage of her drunk vulnerability. To her surprise, Christina doesn’t panic one bit. She has absolutely no memory of who the guy was, but does remember very distinctly that she loved it. Now a worried Savitri, and an ecstatic Christina have a mission at hand. Rape or not, they need to figure out who the guy was. Thus begin their eavesdropping attempts on the adjacent flat, a home to four guys who they vaguely suspect.
The rest of the plot involves the unravelling of this very mystery.

About the cast:
A bright young cast in their early twenties, waiting to break into the theater scene in Hyderabad with their debut stint. This cast has more in common than just the one fact that all of them are BITS Pilani alumnus, a passion for theater.

2 shows on Fri 3rd Jun (at 7pm & at 8:30pm)

For passes: 08861353747

Hii everyone
Myself Sandeep Kishan. Sketching is my passion. I am a self-taught artist. I'm a student at st.marys college doing my second year B.A in mass communication and journalism.
I wanted to take my skill to the next level and so have planned for an art exhibition and sale.
Here I am so happy to invite you all for my first art expo. You can find a very good collection of my best artworks with different themes and unique inspirations which are made of different grades of pencils. I know that many of you are art lovers and trust me this expo enriches your taste for art. Apart from exhibition...you can also purchase the artwork you liked the most. The price ranges from 2,500 to 3000 rupees only. The artworks displayed are already framed. And trust me this is going to be a really tasty visual treat. So friends please do visit my C-12 art expo and make it successful with you presence there.
Artworks which u like can also be purchased.
Price range - 2,500/- to 3,000/- only

An hour filled with Play and Musical performances by Youngsters.

The play is about a disciple who despite the many warnings of his teacher ventures into a dark town ruled by a very foolish ruler. In this town, he discovers that the inhabitants are equally foolish. An incident follows a bizarre blame game which almost costs the Disciple his life.

This play uses ironic humour as a powerful resource to uncover the absurdities of India’s social and political systems: political corruption, exploitation and historical manipulation. In a tense environment where humour might not seem appropriate,
Bharatendu masterfully uses and critically examines it as a means to ridicule bureaucracy and the establishment, questioning in a caustic way people's conformity & positivity.

This script, though constructed on Bharatendu’s play, takes support of Tagore’s songs, poems of Sukumar Ray - the king of nonsense rhymes in Bengali, and Telugu folktales. The play appeals to audiences of all ages.

About the Playwright:
Bharatendu Harishchandra (1850-1885) is one of the most heard names in the history of modern Hindi literature. His plays typify the agonies of India, hopes and aspirations of the youth and urge for progress and removal of injustice.

Shudrka Hyderabad, an amateur theatre group based out of Hyderabad, has been performing plays in Hindi, Bangla and Telugu since 2004. Some of the major productions are Manoj Mitra's Kinu Kahar Ka Thitre, Tagore's Totha Bole, Mahasweta Devi's Aajir, Ek Shaam Premchand Ke Naam and Ek Soirachari Rajar Katha based on Albert Camus' Caligula.

DRAMATISATION: BHARATENDU HARISHCHANDRA
LANGUAGE: HINDI
ADAPTATION & DIRECTION: SWAPAN MONDAL
PRODUCTION: SHUDRKA HYDERABAD
DATE OF PERFORMANCE: JUNE 4, 2016
TIME: 8:00 PM
DURATION: 1 hour
VENUE: LAMAKAAN
Donor passes: Rs. 50/-
Contact: +91-9440543341 / +91-9440742760

Hii everyone
Myself Sandeep Kishan. Sketching is my passion. I am a self-taught artist. I'm a student at st.marys college doing my second year B.A in mass communication and journalism.
I wanted to take my skill to the next level and so have planned for an art exhibition and sale.
Here I am so happy to invite you all for my first art expo. You can find a very good collection of my best artworks with different themes and unique inspirations which are made of different grades of pencils. I know that many of you are art lovers and trust me this expo enriches your taste for art. Apart from exhibition...you can also purchase the artwork you liked the most. The price ranges from 2,500 to 3000 rupees only. The artworks displayed are already framed. And trust me this is going to be a really tasty visual treat. So friends please do visit my C-12 art expo and make it successful with you presence.

Artworks which u like can also be purchased.
Price range - 2,500/- to 3,000/- only

About Play:

PRASTHAAV is a play in Hindi, adapted from Anton Chekov's 'A Marriage Proposal' written in 1888-1889 and first performed in 1890. It is a fast-paced play of dialogue-based action and situational humor.

A hilarious play depicting romance and marriage. The farce explores the process of getting married and is a satire on the upper middle class and courtship. The play points out the struggle to balance the economic necessities of marriage and what the characters themselves actually want. It shows that marriage is a mean of economic stability for most people and they marry to gain wealth and possessions or to satisfy social pressure.

Madan Sharma, a long-time neighbor of Shree Kamalprasad Varma, has come with a marriage proposal for Varmaji's daughter Radha but gets into an argument with her about the disputed land and also about their respective hunting dogs.

Watch the play to see if Sharma ultimately manages to propose her or not ? Lets see if he and Radha will get married or not.

About Writer:
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was a Russian playwright and short story writer who is considered to be among the greatest writers of short fiction in history. His career as a playwright produced four classics and his best short stories are held in high esteem by writers and critics.
Alan Twigg, the chief editor and publisher of the Canadian book review magazine BC Bookworld wrote,

“One can argue Anton Chekhov is the second-most popular writer on the planet. Only Shakespeare outranks Chekhov in terms of movie adaptations of their work, according to the movie database IMDb. ... We generally know less about Chekhov than we know about mysterious Shakespeare”.



Hindi adaptation by : Anand kulkarni
Directed by : Ali Ahmed
Cast:
Suraj meshram as a Varma ji
Kajol dubey as a Kumari Radha
Ali Ahmed As a Sharma ji

For detail contact: 9849170927, 8886416111

On the eve of World Environment Day, inviting all for Art Exhibition, Round Table meeitngs and film screening at Lamakan from 5pm on Tue 7th

Man who dwarfed the mountains film:
The National Award winning film “The Man Who Dwarfed The Mountains” captures the indomitable spirit of environmentalist Chandi Prasad Bhatt.

Seldom do a man’s deeds loom so large that they dwarf the very mountains from where they emanate. One such person is Chandi Prasad Bhatt, who has strong claims to being the first modern Indian environmentalist, and arguably also its greatest. Bhatt was one of the pioneers of the Chipko movement, not just a fight for protecting forests and environment, but a struggle for protecting and renewing livelihoods. The Film seeks to decipher the life, the motivation and work of a man who silently changed the paradigm of environment activism in India and has been described by Ramchandra Guha as one of the finest Indians alive today.

Trailer :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mkqBTU8sa0

All are welcome.

The National Award winning film “The Man Who Dwarfed The Mountains” captures the indomitable spirit of environmentalist Chandi Prasad Bhatt

It is an event for the HIV positive kids where they will be showcasing their talent and skills.
Let us all participate to raise some funds for their cause.

All are welcome.
Entry - Free.

Conducting a week-long Exhibition and sale of paintings by Yam Prasad Dhakal in his tribute to M.F.Husain on the master's 5th death anniversary. These paintings are done in Prasad's own inimitable style and themes.

This is his second exhibition & Sale at Lamakaan. He is adept in various methods of painting; KNIFE PAINTING, SAND PAINITNG, ACRYLIC & OIL PAINTING and PENCIL SKETCHES.

This painting will last from 9th-12th June.

Entry - Free

City's very own Rajashekhar Mamidanna, famously known as Software Rambabu is coming back with his one hour special... get ready to be part of it

Welcome to the Second Focus Group Discussion on Gender, Identity & Media.

A Doctoral Researcher at the Department of Communication, University of Hyderabad, working in the area of Feminist Media Studies is organising 3 Focus Group Discussions. Her research is attempt to understand how one gets a sense of their gender, how one comes into feminism, and the kind of conversations that take place around gender, feminism/feminist ideas within families, amongst peer groups, and discussions generated by media content. Focus Group Discussions are the first step in this study process to understand the role media and peer groups play in informing/shaping/understanding their identities.

This is an unusual bittersweet play written by Rabindranath Tagore in 1912. It talks about the last few days of a dying boy named Amal, who is confined to his adopted uncle's house by an incurable disease. From his perch by the window, he calls out to people passing by and talks with them until their daily routines force them to move on. Eventually, he gets inspired by the construction of the local post office and fantasizes about receiving a letter from the king and someday becoming a postman himself so that he can travel far and wide.

EK SHAAM PREMCHAND KE NAAM

Synopsis
The play is an amalgamation of two of Premchand’s stories, ‘Kafan’ and ‘Sadgati’. Both explore death in unlikely circumstances and play themselves out with unexpected twists and turns, all laced with the author’s humanist, equalitarian and socialist ideas. The two stories recreate the vivid reality of the Dalits, exposing pretensions and complacencies of dominant, feudal and patriarchal social forces.

The stories,that reveal the extraordinary range of Premchand’s writing, are blended together in a non-linear yet seamless narrative using ‘Burra-Katha’ - a performance art rooted in traditional storytelling, dance movement, and music in Andhra and Telangana regions.

About the author
Premchand (1880-1936) was the author of numerous short stories, novels and a play. Some of his best known works include Godan (1936), Rangabhumi (1925), Nirmala (1928), Gaban (1931) and Karmabhumi (1932). He wrote both in Hindi and Urdu.

About the group

Shudrka Hyderabad, an amateur theatre group based out of Hyderabad, has been performing plays in Hindi, Bangla and Telugu since 2004. Some of their major productions are ‘Charandas Chor’, ‘Kinu Kahar Ka Thitr’, ‘Tukaram Ki Bekufi’, ‘Kissa Andher Nagri Ka’ in Hindi, ‘Meemu Aatavikulam’ in Telugu and ‘Aajir’ in Bengali.

STORY: MUNSHI PREMCHAND
DRAMATISATION AND DIRECTION: SWAPAN MONDAL
PRODUCTION: SHUDRKA HYDERABAD
DATE OF PERFORMANCE: JUNE 11, 2016
TIME: 7 PM
DURATION: 1 hour
LANGUAGE: HINDI
VENUE: LAMAKAAN

For passes: 9440543341

EK SOIRACHARI RAJAR KATHA (The story of a despot)

Synopsis

Caligula, the Roman emperor, who succeeded Tiberius and preceded Claudius andruled for less than four years (AD 37-41), remains mythic for his fanatical approach to power. The play, “Ek Soirachari Rajar Katha” is not a period piece i.e. a play concerned with a historical time. It has drawn from Camus' “Caligula” the concept of deification of emperors which was common to the pagan world, theGreek and Macedonian kings, including Alexander the Great, who ordered their priests to proclaim them Gods, as did the Caesars startingwith Augustus.

In spite of restraining convention and law, the innately vicious or dangerously capricious autocratic tendency still exists. This enabled modern figures like Amin and Milosevic to indulge in ‘Caligula-ism’ – their dangerous whims and murderous eccentricities. Though it also meant that the only remedy for those who terrorizedwas assassination, "I (Caligula) am still alive!" (Caligula, tr. by Christopher Williams, 2007).

About the group

Shudrka Hyderabad, an amateur theatre group based out of Hyderabad, has been performing plays in Hindi, Bangla and Telugu since 2004. Some of their major productions are ‘Charandas Chor’, ‘Kinu Kahar Ka Thitr’, ‘Tukaram Ki Bekufi’, ‘Kissa Andher Nagri Ka’ in Hindi, ‘Meemu Aatavikulam’ in Telugu and ‘Aajir’ in Bengali.





PLAY: EK SOIRACHARI RAJAR KATHA
(Inspired by Albert Camus’ “Caligula”)
LANGUAGE: BENGALI
ADAPTATION &PRODUCTION: SHUDRKA HYDERABAD
DIRECTION: SWAPAN MONDAL
DATE OF PERFORMANCE: JUNE 11,2016
TIME: 8:30 PM
DURATION: 1 hour
VENUE: LAMAKAAN

For passes: 9440543341

You are cordially invited to celebrate the publication of Black, White and the Grays in Between by Abhishek A. Hemrajani at Lamakaan

Ms. Meera Shenoy, social change maker, author and founder of Youth4Jobs will launch the book!

The Book:

Kanak is one of Houston’s most respected and successful doctors. Neil is the charming Head Boy from St. Teresa’s and her first childhood crush. Fate had reunited the two young lovers during their medical residency at the Baylor College of Medicine. In a life that had an extraordinary ability to leave her unfulfilled, Neil and her Pa, Keshav, were the only two men who had brought peace and happiness to the motherless Kanak. They had supported her, applauded her, and held her close through the turns of life.

Rukhsar is the beautiful twenty-four-year-old daughter of Barqat Malik, the noor of her Abbu’s eyes. Ashar is the handsome lover, who yearns to make his Rukhsar smile. Unlike Kanak, Rukhsar did have a caring Ammi. She also had a proud Abbu. However, she was eager to cast them off, along with the traditional values that she was expected to represent. Ashar was the only thread that still reeled her in, but even that could never be enough for a girl who just wanted to fly away.

Black, White and the Grays in Between is an emotional saga of hope, betrayed dreams, and the endless shades of gray. Set across three generations and three cities - Houston, Hyderabad, and the Bombay of the ‘70s - this is a story about love that is often selfless and self-doubting, and the unexpected virtue of listening to your heart.

http://www.abhishekhemrajani.com/
https://www.facebook.com/BlackWhiteAndTheGraysInBetween

About Play:

PRASTHAAV is a play in Hindi, adapted from Anton Chekov's 'A Marriage Proposal' written in 1888-1889 and first performed in 1890. It is a fast-paced play of dialogue-based action and situational humor.

A hilarious play depicting romance and marriage. The farce explores the process of getting married and is a satire on the upper middle class and courtship. The play points out the struggle to balance the economic necessities of marriage and what the characters themselves actually want. It shows that marriage is a mean of economic stability for most people and they marry to gain wealth and possessions or to satisfy social pressure.

Madan Sharma, a long-time neighbor of Shree Kamalprasad Varma, has come with a marriage proposal for Varmaji's daughter Radha but gets into an argument with her about the disputed land and also about their respective hunting dogs.

Watch the play to see if Sharma ultimately manages to propose her or not ? Lets see if he and Radha will get married or not.

About Writer:
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was a Russian playwright and short story writer who is considered to be among the greatest writers of short fiction in history. His career as a playwright produced four classics and his best short stories are held in high esteem by writers and critics.
Alan Twigg, the chief editor and publisher of the Canadian book review magazine BC Bookworld wrote,

“One can argue Anton Chekhov is the second-most popular writer on the planet. Only Shakespeare outranks Chekhov in terms of movie adaptations of their work, according to the movie database IMDb. ... We generally know less about Chekhov than we know about mysterious Shakespeare”.



Hindi adaptation by : Anand kulkarni
Directed by : Ali Ahmed
Cast:
Suraj meshram as a Varma ji
Kajol dubey as a Kumari Radha
Ali Ahmed As a Sharma ji

For detail contact: 9849170927, 8886416111

KUM. SHREYA IYER
Principal Dancer and Choreographer

Shreya Iyer is the Daughter and student of Smt. Suganda Sreenath of Jayendra Kalakendra, San Jose, California. Shreya has been learning Bharatanatyam for the past 17 years under her mother and has also been learning with the Dhananjayans. After completing her arangetram in 2007 she continued to learn, teach and choreograph at Jayendra Kalakendra. She is the niece of Smt. Ananda Shankar Jayant, one of India’s most eminent and renowned dancers.

A Bard Short interpretation for an Indian audience of Shakespeare's triumphal 'nationalist' play, staged after the defeat of the Spanish Armada. Every British production since then has been triumphalist.

Vithal Rajan, an Indian actor and Shakespearean, takes the Bard's own words, short scenes from films, and art to examine the play from an anti-war subaltern perspective.

No Tickets.
Entry: Free
All are welcome

Virtual Reality is the biggest and most talked about tech right now and is an open canvas for experiences that range from 360 degree photos and videos that immerse you in out of the world environments to drawing 3d art in the more advanced applications.

How horribly wrong can a boy’s dream of owning a pair of full pants go? Set in a small town in Andhra Pradesh, Ranga Half-Pants is a breath-taking, coming-of-age tale of courage, love and friendship.

Ranganathan aka Ranga, 14, goes to school after Dasara holidays to discover that he is the only boy in his class still wearing half-pants. All the other boys have moved on to full trousers making Ranga the butt of cruel jokes and bullying. Things reach a real low when his arch-nemesis, Joel, becomes friends with Ranga’s best friend, Kaivalya.

Prasad, 24, is a man forced to live by the sword. Now he wants to give it all up for the love of his life, Tabassum. His rivals, however, have other plans for him.

The worlds of Ranga and Prasad clash on a fateful, violent night. Will Ranga get his full pants?

Welcome to the third and final Focus Group Discussion on Gender, Identity & Media.

A Doctoral Researcher at the Department of Communication, University of Hyderabad, working in the area of Feminist Media Studies is organising 3 Focus Group Discussions. Her research is attempt to understand how one gets a sense of their gender, how one comes into feminism, and the kind of conversations that take place around gender, feminism/feminist ideas within families, amongst peer groups, and discussions generated by media content. Focus Group Discussions are the first step in this study process to understand the role media and peer groups play in informing/shaping/understanding their identities.

'Cowspiracy, the sustainability secret' is a ground-breaking yet humorous documentary that uncovers the most devastating human act facing the planet, and offers a path to global sustainability.

Animal agriculture is the leading cause of deforestation, water consumption and pollution, is responsible for more greenhouse gases than the transportation industry, and is a primary driver of rainforest destruction, species extinction, habitat loss, topsoil erosion, ocean “dead zones,” and virtually every other environmental ill.

This screening, organized by India Against Speciesism and Khula Manch, will be followed by a brief discussion on other related issues and the role of individuals.

5th Pillar(www.5thpillar.org) is an International non profit organization that uses
the Zero Rupee Note and the RTI Act of 2005 to empower

MISSION STATEMENT: "ENCOURAGE, ENABLE & EMPOWER EVERY CITIZEN TO ELIMINATE CORRUPTION AT ALL LEVELS OF SOCIETY ", and adopted the "ZERO RUPEE NOTE"(ZRN) as our primary campaign tool for propagating our goals and ideals.

Within no time, The ZRN assumed the power of a "Non violent weapon of Non-cooperation against Bribery". It worked like magic every time it was handed out by a honest citizen who chose not to pay the bribe, to the Bribe-seeking person.

In the last 9 years, we have been able to print and distribute 2.5 million copies of the ZRN across 45 districts of India, through various campaigns are titled-
1. Freedom From Corruption
2. School of Democracy
3. Project AGNI
Right now, with a volunteer base of 100 dynamic students from "vasavi college of engineering", we are spreading the movement in Hyderabad.

EVENT AGENDA:-
Through this event, we wish to bring together -all those citizens who are HOPING FOR CHANGE. We would like to start a dailouge on "SOCIAL & CIVIC PROBLEMS IN HYDERABAD", and strategize on an ACTION PLAN to ADDRESS THEM.

Not every day will you see a man and his wife’s husband together on stage.
Come and find out who gets to keep the wife and who gets to keep the misery.

Sifar invites you to a comedy play:

MY WIFE’S HUSBAND

Time: 8 PM
Date: Sunday, 19th June 2016
Venue: Lamakaan, road no.1 banjara hills, Hyderabad, India.

Written by: Miro Gavran | Indian adaptation by: Feroze
Music composed by: Amit Dasani & Suhit Chiruthapudi
Poster & Ticket designed by: Kathik Vijay V
Cast: Maya, Shravanth, Feroze
Directed by: Feroze


Donor Pass: Rs100
Online booking:
https://in.bookmyshow.com/plays/my-wifes-husband/ET00042970#!Tickets


Keep your love and cheer pouring in :o)


Team Sifar
+91-98-4933-1347
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This is going to be a photography exhibition of around 15 pictures focusing mainly on the landscapes and fauna of Leh- Ladakh shot in the month of June. No one can be told how Leh is, one has to experience it themselves. to take in the beauty and serenity of the place. This exhibition is just a peek into this beautiful world of wonderful colours and places.
Tentatively on the 16th and 17th of June from 5:30pm to 7pm.

On World Music Day, inviting all for a free show as "Outrock" perform a gig in Rock N Roll, Classic Rock at 7:30pm on Tue 21st Jun.

Outrock is made up of passionate, hard working musicians who all got together for one common goal, to play energetic and entertaining music, Live. They enjoy every moment of playing live, which shows when we are on stage.

Tonight, Outrock covers Rock N Roll and Classic Rock songs by artists like Elvis Presley, The Beatles, Eagles, Queen, Dire Straits etc. The group comprises of Sashi on Lead Vocals, Raj on Lead Guitar and Backing Vocals, Chakri on Rhythm Guitar and Backing Vocals, Ananth on Bass and Savitr on Drums and Backing Vocals.

All are welcome. Entry - Free.

Funny Side up presents an Evening of Improv and Stand up comedy.

Improv is an Art form where a group of performers create magic on stage by taking suggestions from the audience. No script. No preparation. Everything made up on spot. Stand up comedy will feature three acts by Hyderabad's best.

Be there to have a great time.

For passes:9177854713

Welcome to the 5 years celebrations of Sciensation.

Sciensation is a media-startup which has been doing amazing work in schools since 2011 and the impact can only be experienced. We challenge the filmstars and the cricketers, scientists can be rockstars too!
We are working with 32 schools of Hyderabad and with the association of NDTV and 10 TV we hope to expand to over 100 schools by this year's end.

Deepti, a disciple of the eminent vainika smt. Emani Kalyani Lakshminarayana will be performing a one hour veena concert on the occasion of world music day. Deepti is the third generation vainika carrying forward the legacy of Emani style, brought into vogue by Padmashree Dr.Emani Shankar Sastri, whose name is synonymous with Veena for over decades. All are welcome to enjoy and revel in the emani baani and bless the artiste to scale greater heights in music.

Entry - Free.

The event is to showcase artists of various talents like poetry, stand up comedy, music and an open mic as well

Samahaara Comedy Night: Filmy Chakkar

Date: 25th June 2016
Time: 8pm
Venue: Lamakaan, Banjara Hills, Hyderabad

Samahaara's exclusive Standup event featuring our best mimicking and playfully mocking the best - of Bollywood. Witness our stars turn into Bolly stars for the night. Lay out the red carpet for the rib-tickling antics of Samahaara's Comics basing an entire evening on our Film Stars. Ye Toh Filmi Chakkar Hain (dekho dekho dekho)!!

Hosted by Mayank Parakh
Featured acts by Rupali Tyagi & Hriday Ranjan
Headliner by Abhijeet Deshpande.

Entry by Donation Rs.100/-

"A Morning with Sirivennela Seetharama Sastry" is an event related to the contribution of Sirivennela to the corpus of lyrics for Telugu movies. Bits of select lyrics from the pen of Sirivennela are played. Each bit selected has something unique about it. It might be an unusual imagery or the application of some figure of speech or a literary experiment or some social significance or some message, etc. Once a given bit of a select lyric is played, the attendees are invited to talk about what they think that given bit of lyric is all about and then the moderator for the event shall sum up the discussion and move on to the next bit of lyric. The Event highly interactive in its nature. The best part is that there is no Entry Fee for this Event. All are welcome.

All those who may not know who Mr. Sirivennela Seetharama Sastry is may visit the following link:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sirivennela_Seetharama_Sastry

Music has the inherent ability to evoke a myriad of emotions and take the listener to unknown realms of life.

On the eve of World Music Day and just when the monsoon sets in, Sri Raga Music School offers a unique celebration with an evening dedicated to Carnatic Raaga Mohana.

Credited as one of the most exquisite pentatonic ragas, Mohana is predominantly known for devotion, love, sensitivity and beauty. Mohana at once fits into any emotional intensity and every genre ranging from Western Classical, Indian Classical, semi-classical, ghazal and film music.

Sri Raga Music School plans to unleash the nuances of Raaga Mohana by presenting a mélange of popular as well as rare compositions in this Raaga. Headed by Dr.Bala Donepudi, the programme would sure promise a lasting fervor of Mohana for the audience.

All are welcome. Entry - Free.

Performing Classical Dance (Bharatnatyam)

A collection of minimalist & impressionist paintings by artist couple Aamira Abdullah & Abdullah Khan.

These paintings can best be described as minimalist, expressionist, geometric, zen. They use carefully selected colour and large scale to evoke vivid perceptual and emotional responses in its viewers. They are designed to soothe and to allow the mind and eye to wander and relax, to enter an almost meditative state. We wanted to design the paintings to allow one to take a step back and look at the bigger picture of things, to allow attention to be invested a little at a time in an age where we are constantly bombarded with and distracted by visual stimuli, and to slow down a little so one could appreciate the present moment and contemplate it. The idea was also that in a stressful situation, if you were to sit down in front of it, it should calm you, benefit you in some way.

Year 2026, this short movie(14Mins) presents story of a rich person Nawab saheb who is struggling to find water for his daughter's marriage. Want to know more, watch this comedy short movie to visualize the danger the mankind is going to face if it water crisis continues and if no concrete steps are taken for water preservation.

RANGADHAARA THE THEATRE STREAMS PRESENTS, a Hindi one Act play "MAA......CHAAI" on 28th May 2016 @ 8.00pm

The one act play, 'MAA….CHAAI' is a subtle hu­mour and inexplicable emotion which revolves around a freewheeling conversation that a young man has with his pals on the next night after losing his mother to dreadful disease. How he reacts to the circumstances when he confronts his friends around him.

HQC's monthly quiz for May !
All are welcome.

Samahaara Comedy Night: 11th Edition

Date: 29th May 2016
Venue: Lamakaan, Banjara Hills
Time: 8pm

Directed by Rathna Shekar Reddy

It's baaaaaaaack, with a new set of short plays and stand-up comedy. Remember how much fun we had last time? It's going to be Double the Fun as always with Comedy Plays and Stand-up. Get that funny bone tickled with mad, funny, impish, satirical and hilarious characters and situations.

For ages 18 years and above.

Donation Rs.100/-

Lagori - An abstract performance - just like the game of piled stones and a ball, this performance is about compilation of thoughts weaved through a needle of idea to perform some personal thoughts, a mix of poetry and drama to explore the present in the art and something very personal.

Performed by Abhilasha B Paul, Krishna Shukla, Krishna, Sandeep Yadav.

Donor Pass : 100/- Rupees Only
+91 9296153233

Inviting all for an evening of 7 classical Dances presented by Nrityaarpan students. The dancers will present Bharatanatyam, Kathak, Kathakali, Kuchipudi, Andhranatyam, Mohiniyattam, Odissi dances at 6:30pm on Wednesday Jun 1st.

All are welcome. Entry - Free.

|| Gardhabandam (గార్ధబాండం) ||

గార్ధబాండం అంటే చట్టుక్కున అర్ధం అవలేదా? గర్ధబాండం అంటే.. గాడిదగుడ్డు. అవును గాడిద గుడ్డే. తెలుగు కవి, రచయత, నటులు, దర్శకులు ఐన తనికెళ్ళ భరణి (Tanikella Bharani) గారు రచించిన ఈ గార్ధబాండం మీ అందరి ముందుకి మంచ్ థియేటర్ ప్రవేశ పెడుతుంది.
దశాబ్దాలు క్రితం రాసినా .. ఇంకా ఈ నాటకం యొక్క వన్నెకి .. e సమాజం యొక్క స్థితిగతికి పెద్దగా మార్పు రాలేదు..
అరాచక రాజ్యపు యంత్రాంగాన్ని.. అక్కరకు రాని, అర్హత లేని రాజుని.. వీరి వల్ల ప్రజలు పడే బాధల్ల్ని హాస్య సన్నివేశాల మిశ్రమం తొ మీ అందరికి కడుపుబ్బా నవ్వు.. మనసున కాస్త మదనము అందించే నాటికయే ఈ మా గార్ధబాండం. .

రచన: శ్రీ తనికెళ్ళ భరణి గారు,

దర్శకత్వం: శ్రీకాంత్ బాణాల,

నటులు : నీలేష్ అహంకారి || సులేమాన్ || సుందర్ || శ్రీనివాస్ వల్లాల || సుమన్ సింగసాని || భరత్ రెడ్డి ||

తేది: June, 8:00pm.


Manch Theatre is back, this time with an eminent play Gaardhabandam from an eminent playwright, actor, Director Sri Tanikella Bharani Garu,
Gaardhabandam, which literally means Donkey’s Egg(Gaadidha Guddu) is a play which is written decades ago is still relevant in the present social scenario. The play is a mix of fictional mythology and contemporary social issues faced by the common man, a satire on inherited political power with a rib tickling conversations. This play will make you laugh to the core and carry a sense of belonging coming to the very end of the play
Come grab your seats and enjoy the cool environment and fun in the unorthodox authentic Telugu play.


Tickets will be available in BookMyShow.com, 99doing.com and at the venue from 6pm.

Young people (of all genders) between the ages of 18-25 will participate in a series of focus group discussions on gender, identity and media. 3FGDs are to take place in the month of June. 3rd, 10th, and the 18th.

Two apartments, a rape and a mystery. Peace Out- A play by Sagar Keswani, Arvind Sunder, and Rajshekar Behar.

Plot Summary of the play:

Christina has a weird situation at hand. The good news is, she has a blurred memory of last night, one of the best nights of her life. The bad news is, that’s the only thing she has.
How can you have a great time with someone and not remember who it was? Well, to answer that question, Christina needs to find out who it was. And then, there is the dreaded possibility of the entire incident being a smartly executed rape.
Her suspects? Four guys who live across the street, and dropped her home the previous night.
Her accomplice? Savitri, Christina’s worried roommate who can’t even comprehend what’s going on.
So who was it? One of the four guys? Or all of the four guys? The girls have no choice. They have to take it upon themselves, and get to the bottom of this.
Will the ‘rapist’ reveal himself? Only time will tell.

About the cast:
A bright young cast in their early twenties, waiting to break into the theater scene in Hyderabad with their debut stint. This cast has more in common than just the one fact that all of them are BITS Pilani alumnus, a passion for theater.

For passes: https://in.bookmyshow.com/hyderabad/events/peace-out/ET00041987

Two apartments, a rape and a mystery. Peace Out- A play by Sagar Keswani, Arvind Sunder, and Rajshekar Behar.

Plot Summary of the play:
A hungover Savitri wakes up on a Saturday morning, only to recollect the horrors of the previous night. She has to break it to her roommate Christina, that someone had raped her last night, taking full advantage of her drunk vulnerability. To her surprise, Christina doesn’t panic one bit. She has absolutely no memory of who the guy was, but does remember very distinctly that she loved it. Now a worried Savitri, and an ecstatic Christina have a mission at hand. Rape or not, they need to figure out who the guy was. Thus begin their eavesdropping attempts on the adjacent flat, a home to four guys who they vaguely suspect.
The rest of the plot involves the unravelling of this very mystery.

About the cast:
A bright young cast in their early twenties, waiting to break into the theater scene in Hyderabad with their debut stint. This cast has more in common than just the one fact that all of them are BITS Pilani alumnus, a passion for theater.

2 shows on Fri 3rd Jun (at 7pm & at 8:30pm)

For passes: 08861353747

Hii everyone
Myself Sandeep Kishan. Sketching is my passion. I am a self-taught artist. I'm a student at st.marys college doing my second year B.A in mass communication and journalism.
I wanted to take my skill to the next level and so have planned for an art exhibition and sale.
Here I am so happy to invite you all for my first art expo. You can find a very good collection of my best artworks with different themes and unique inspirations which are made of different grades of pencils. I know that many of you are art lovers and trust me this expo enriches your taste for art. Apart from exhibition...you can also purchase the artwork you liked the most. The price ranges from 2,500 to 3000 rupees only. The artworks displayed are already framed. And trust me this is going to be a really tasty visual treat. So friends please do visit my C-12 art expo and make it successful with you presence there.
Artworks which u like can also be purchased.
Price range - 2,500/- to 3,000/- only

An hour filled with Play and Musical performances by Youngsters.

The play is about a disciple who despite the many warnings of his teacher ventures into a dark town ruled by a very foolish ruler. In this town, he discovers that the inhabitants are equally foolish. An incident follows a bizarre blame game which almost costs the Disciple his life.

This play uses ironic humour as a powerful resource to uncover the absurdities of India’s social and political systems: political corruption, exploitation and historical manipulation. In a tense environment where humour might not seem appropriate,
Bharatendu masterfully uses and critically examines it as a means to ridicule bureaucracy and the establishment, questioning in a caustic way people's conformity & positivity.

This script, though constructed on Bharatendu’s play, takes support of Tagore’s songs, poems of Sukumar Ray - the king of nonsense rhymes in Bengali, and Telugu folktales. The play appeals to audiences of all ages.

About the Playwright:
Bharatendu Harishchandra (1850-1885) is one of the most heard names in the history of modern Hindi literature. His plays typify the agonies of India, hopes and aspirations of the youth and urge for progress and removal of injustice.

Shudrka Hyderabad, an amateur theatre group based out of Hyderabad, has been performing plays in Hindi, Bangla and Telugu since 2004. Some of the major productions are Manoj Mitra's Kinu Kahar Ka Thitre, Tagore's Totha Bole, Mahasweta Devi's Aajir, Ek Shaam Premchand Ke Naam and Ek Soirachari Rajar Katha based on Albert Camus' Caligula.

DRAMATISATION: BHARATENDU HARISHCHANDRA
LANGUAGE: HINDI
ADAPTATION & DIRECTION: SWAPAN MONDAL
PRODUCTION: SHUDRKA HYDERABAD
DATE OF PERFORMANCE: JUNE 4, 2016
TIME: 8:00 PM
DURATION: 1 hour
VENUE: LAMAKAAN
Donor passes: Rs. 50/-
Contact: +91-9440543341 / +91-9440742760

Hii everyone
Myself Sandeep Kishan. Sketching is my passion. I am a self-taught artist. I'm a student at st.marys college doing my second year B.A in mass communication and journalism.
I wanted to take my skill to the next level and so have planned for an art exhibition and sale.
Here I am so happy to invite you all for my first art expo. You can find a very good collection of my best artworks with different themes and unique inspirations which are made of different grades of pencils. I know that many of you are art lovers and trust me this expo enriches your taste for art. Apart from exhibition...you can also purchase the artwork you liked the most. The price ranges from 2,500 to 3000 rupees only. The artworks displayed are already framed. And trust me this is going to be a really tasty visual treat. So friends please do visit my C-12 art expo and make it successful with you presence.

Artworks which u like can also be purchased.
Price range - 2,500/- to 3,000/- only

About Play:

PRASTHAAV is a play in Hindi, adapted from Anton Chekov's 'A Marriage Proposal' written in 1888-1889 and first performed in 1890. It is a fast-paced play of dialogue-based action and situational humor.

A hilarious play depicting romance and marriage. The farce explores the process of getting married and is a satire on the upper middle class and courtship. The play points out the struggle to balance the economic necessities of marriage and what the characters themselves actually want. It shows that marriage is a mean of economic stability for most people and they marry to gain wealth and possessions or to satisfy social pressure.

Madan Sharma, a long-time neighbor of Shree Kamalprasad Varma, has come with a marriage proposal for Varmaji's daughter Radha but gets into an argument with her about the disputed land and also about their respective hunting dogs.

Watch the play to see if Sharma ultimately manages to propose her or not ? Lets see if he and Radha will get married or not.

About Writer:
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was a Russian playwright and short story writer who is considered to be among the greatest writers of short fiction in history. His career as a playwright produced four classics and his best short stories are held in high esteem by writers and critics.
Alan Twigg, the chief editor and publisher of the Canadian book review magazine BC Bookworld wrote,

“One can argue Anton Chekhov is the second-most popular writer on the planet. Only Shakespeare outranks Chekhov in terms of movie adaptations of their work, according to the movie database IMDb. ... We generally know less about Chekhov than we know about mysterious Shakespeare”.



Hindi adaptation by : Anand kulkarni
Directed by : Ali Ahmed
Cast:
Suraj meshram as a Varma ji
Kajol dubey as a Kumari Radha
Ali Ahmed As a Sharma ji

For detail contact: 9849170927, 8886416111

On the eve of World Environment Day, inviting all for Art Exhibition, Round Table meeitngs and film screening at Lamakan from 5pm on Tue 7th

Man who dwarfed the mountains film:
The National Award winning film “The Man Who Dwarfed The Mountains” captures the indomitable spirit of environmentalist Chandi Prasad Bhatt.

Seldom do a man’s deeds loom so large that they dwarf the very mountains from where they emanate. One such person is Chandi Prasad Bhatt, who has strong claims to being the first modern Indian environmentalist, and arguably also its greatest. Bhatt was one of the pioneers of the Chipko movement, not just a fight for protecting forests and environment, but a struggle for protecting and renewing livelihoods. The Film seeks to decipher the life, the motivation and work of a man who silently changed the paradigm of environment activism in India and has been described by Ramchandra Guha as one of the finest Indians alive today.

Trailer :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mkqBTU8sa0

All are welcome.

The National Award winning film “The Man Who Dwarfed The Mountains” captures the indomitable spirit of environmentalist Chandi Prasad Bhatt

It is an event for the HIV positive kids where they will be showcasing their talent and skills.
Let us all participate to raise some funds for their cause.

All are welcome.
Entry - Free.

Conducting a week-long Exhibition and sale of paintings by Yam Prasad Dhakal in his tribute to M.F.Husain on the master's 5th death anniversary. These paintings are done in Prasad's own inimitable style and themes.

This is his second exhibition & Sale at Lamakaan. He is adept in various methods of painting; KNIFE PAINTING, SAND PAINITNG, ACRYLIC & OIL PAINTING and PENCIL SKETCHES.

This painting will last from 9th-12th June.

Entry - Free

City's very own Rajashekhar Mamidanna, famously known as Software Rambabu is coming back with his one hour special... get ready to be part of it

Welcome to the Second Focus Group Discussion on Gender, Identity & Media.

A Doctoral Researcher at the Department of Communication, University of Hyderabad, working in the area of Feminist Media Studies is organising 3 Focus Group Discussions. Her research is attempt to understand how one gets a sense of their gender, how one comes into feminism, and the kind of conversations that take place around gender, feminism/feminist ideas within families, amongst peer groups, and discussions generated by media content. Focus Group Discussions are the first step in this study process to understand the role media and peer groups play in informing/shaping/understanding their identities.

This is an unusual bittersweet play written by Rabindranath Tagore in 1912. It talks about the last few days of a dying boy named Amal, who is confined to his adopted uncle's house by an incurable disease. From his perch by the window, he calls out to people passing by and talks with them until their daily routines force them to move on. Eventually, he gets inspired by the construction of the local post office and fantasizes about receiving a letter from the king and someday becoming a postman himself so that he can travel far and wide.

EK SHAAM PREMCHAND KE NAAM

Synopsis
The play is an amalgamation of two of Premchand’s stories, ‘Kafan’ and ‘Sadgati’. Both explore death in unlikely circumstances and play themselves out with unexpected twists and turns, all laced with the author’s humanist, equalitarian and socialist ideas. The two stories recreate the vivid reality of the Dalits, exposing pretensions and complacencies of dominant, feudal and patriarchal social forces.

The stories,that reveal the extraordinary range of Premchand’s writing, are blended together in a non-linear yet seamless narrative using ‘Burra-Katha’ - a performance art rooted in traditional storytelling, dance movement, and music in Andhra and Telangana regions.

About the author
Premchand (1880-1936) was the author of numerous short stories, novels and a play. Some of his best known works include Godan (1936), Rangabhumi (1925), Nirmala (1928), Gaban (1931) and Karmabhumi (1932). He wrote both in Hindi and Urdu.

About the group

Shudrka Hyderabad, an amateur theatre group based out of Hyderabad, has been performing plays in Hindi, Bangla and Telugu since 2004. Some of their major productions are ‘Charandas Chor’, ‘Kinu Kahar Ka Thitr’, ‘Tukaram Ki Bekufi’, ‘Kissa Andher Nagri Ka’ in Hindi, ‘Meemu Aatavikulam’ in Telugu and ‘Aajir’ in Bengali.

STORY: MUNSHI PREMCHAND
DRAMATISATION AND DIRECTION: SWAPAN MONDAL
PRODUCTION: SHUDRKA HYDERABAD
DATE OF PERFORMANCE: JUNE 11, 2016
TIME: 7 PM
DURATION: 1 hour
LANGUAGE: HINDI
VENUE: LAMAKAAN

For passes: 9440543341

EK SOIRACHARI RAJAR KATHA (The story of a despot)

Synopsis

Caligula, the Roman emperor, who succeeded Tiberius and preceded Claudius andruled for less than four years (AD 37-41), remains mythic for his fanatical approach to power. The play, “Ek Soirachari Rajar Katha” is not a period piece i.e. a play concerned with a historical time. It has drawn from Camus' “Caligula” the concept of deification of emperors which was common to the pagan world, theGreek and Macedonian kings, including Alexander the Great, who ordered their priests to proclaim them Gods, as did the Caesars startingwith Augustus.

In spite of restraining convention and law, the innately vicious or dangerously capricious autocratic tendency still exists. This enabled modern figures like Amin and Milosevic to indulge in ‘Caligula-ism’ – their dangerous whims and murderous eccentricities. Though it also meant that the only remedy for those who terrorizedwas assassination, "I (Caligula) am still alive!" (Caligula, tr. by Christopher Williams, 2007).

About the group

Shudrka Hyderabad, an amateur theatre group based out of Hyderabad, has been performing plays in Hindi, Bangla and Telugu since 2004. Some of their major productions are ‘Charandas Chor’, ‘Kinu Kahar Ka Thitr’, ‘Tukaram Ki Bekufi’, ‘Kissa Andher Nagri Ka’ in Hindi, ‘Meemu Aatavikulam’ in Telugu and ‘Aajir’ in Bengali.





PLAY: EK SOIRACHARI RAJAR KATHA
(Inspired by Albert Camus’ “Caligula”)
LANGUAGE: BENGALI
ADAPTATION &PRODUCTION: SHUDRKA HYDERABAD
DIRECTION: SWAPAN MONDAL
DATE OF PERFORMANCE: JUNE 11,2016
TIME: 8:30 PM
DURATION: 1 hour
VENUE: LAMAKAAN

For passes: 9440543341

You are cordially invited to celebrate the publication of Black, White and the Grays in Between by Abhishek A. Hemrajani at Lamakaan

Ms. Meera Shenoy, social change maker, author and founder of Youth4Jobs will launch the book!

The Book:

Kanak is one of Houston’s most respected and successful doctors. Neil is the charming Head Boy from St. Teresa’s and her first childhood crush. Fate had reunited the two young lovers during their medical residency at the Baylor College of Medicine. In a life that had an extraordinary ability to leave her unfulfilled, Neil and her Pa, Keshav, were the only two men who had brought peace and happiness to the motherless Kanak. They had supported her, applauded her, and held her close through the turns of life.

Rukhsar is the beautiful twenty-four-year-old daughter of Barqat Malik, the noor of her Abbu’s eyes. Ashar is the handsome lover, who yearns to make his Rukhsar smile. Unlike Kanak, Rukhsar did have a caring Ammi. She also had a proud Abbu. However, she was eager to cast them off, along with the traditional values that she was expected to represent. Ashar was the only thread that still reeled her in, but even that could never be enough for a girl who just wanted to fly away.

Black, White and the Grays in Between is an emotional saga of hope, betrayed dreams, and the endless shades of gray. Set across three generations and three cities - Houston, Hyderabad, and the Bombay of the ‘70s - this is a story about love that is often selfless and self-doubting, and the unexpected virtue of listening to your heart.

http://www.abhishekhemrajani.com/
https://www.facebook.com/BlackWhiteAndTheGraysInBetween

About Play:

PRASTHAAV is a play in Hindi, adapted from Anton Chekov's 'A Marriage Proposal' written in 1888-1889 and first performed in 1890. It is a fast-paced play of dialogue-based action and situational humor.

A hilarious play depicting romance and marriage. The farce explores the process of getting married and is a satire on the upper middle class and courtship. The play points out the struggle to balance the economic necessities of marriage and what the characters themselves actually want. It shows that marriage is a mean of economic stability for most people and they marry to gain wealth and possessions or to satisfy social pressure.

Madan Sharma, a long-time neighbor of Shree Kamalprasad Varma, has come with a marriage proposal for Varmaji's daughter Radha but gets into an argument with her about the disputed land and also about their respective hunting dogs.

Watch the play to see if Sharma ultimately manages to propose her or not ? Lets see if he and Radha will get married or not.

About Writer:
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was a Russian playwright and short story writer who is considered to be among the greatest writers of short fiction in history. His career as a playwright produced four classics and his best short stories are held in high esteem by writers and critics.
Alan Twigg, the chief editor and publisher of the Canadian book review magazine BC Bookworld wrote,

“One can argue Anton Chekhov is the second-most popular writer on the planet. Only Shakespeare outranks Chekhov in terms of movie adaptations of their work, according to the movie database IMDb. ... We generally know less about Chekhov than we know about mysterious Shakespeare”.



Hindi adaptation by : Anand kulkarni
Directed by : Ali Ahmed
Cast:
Suraj meshram as a Varma ji
Kajol dubey as a Kumari Radha
Ali Ahmed As a Sharma ji

For detail contact: 9849170927, 8886416111

KUM. SHREYA IYER
Principal Dancer and Choreographer

Shreya Iyer is the Daughter and student of Smt. Suganda Sreenath of Jayendra Kalakendra, San Jose, California. Shreya has been learning Bharatanatyam for the past 17 years under her mother and has also been learning with the Dhananjayans. After completing her arangetram in 2007 she continued to learn, teach and choreograph at Jayendra Kalakendra. She is the niece of Smt. Ananda Shankar Jayant, one of India’s most eminent and renowned dancers.

A Bard Short interpretation for an Indian audience of Shakespeare's triumphal 'nationalist' play, staged after the defeat of the Spanish Armada. Every British production since then has been triumphalist.

Vithal Rajan, an Indian actor and Shakespearean, takes the Bard's own words, short scenes from films, and art to examine the play from an anti-war subaltern perspective.

No Tickets.
Entry: Free
All are welcome

Virtual Reality is the biggest and most talked about tech right now and is an open canvas for experiences that range from 360 degree photos and videos that immerse you in out of the world environments to drawing 3d art in the more advanced applications.

How horribly wrong can a boy’s dream of owning a pair of full pants go? Set in a small town in Andhra Pradesh, Ranga Half-Pants is a breath-taking, coming-of-age tale of courage, love and friendship.

Ranganathan aka Ranga, 14, goes to school after Dasara holidays to discover that he is the only boy in his class still wearing half-pants. All the other boys have moved on to full trousers making Ranga the butt of cruel jokes and bullying. Things reach a real low when his arch-nemesis, Joel, becomes friends with Ranga’s best friend, Kaivalya.

Prasad, 24, is a man forced to live by the sword. Now he wants to give it all up for the love of his life, Tabassum. His rivals, however, have other plans for him.

The worlds of Ranga and Prasad clash on a fateful, violent night. Will Ranga get his full pants?

Welcome to the third and final Focus Group Discussion on Gender, Identity & Media.

A Doctoral Researcher at the Department of Communication, University of Hyderabad, working in the area of Feminist Media Studies is organising 3 Focus Group Discussions. Her research is attempt to understand how one gets a sense of their gender, how one comes into feminism, and the kind of conversations that take place around gender, feminism/feminist ideas within families, amongst peer groups, and discussions generated by media content. Focus Group Discussions are the first step in this study process to understand the role media and peer groups play in informing/shaping/understanding their identities.

'Cowspiracy, the sustainability secret' is a ground-breaking yet humorous documentary that uncovers the most devastating human act facing the planet, and offers a path to global sustainability.

Animal agriculture is the leading cause of deforestation, water consumption and pollution, is responsible for more greenhouse gases than the transportation industry, and is a primary driver of rainforest destruction, species extinction, habitat loss, topsoil erosion, ocean “dead zones,” and virtually every other environmental ill.

This screening, organized by India Against Speciesism and Khula Manch, will be followed by a brief discussion on other related issues and the role of individuals.

5th Pillar(www.5thpillar.org) is an International non profit organization that uses
the Zero Rupee Note and the RTI Act of 2005 to empower

MISSION STATEMENT: "ENCOURAGE, ENABLE & EMPOWER EVERY CITIZEN TO ELIMINATE CORRUPTION AT ALL LEVELS OF SOCIETY ", and adopted the "ZERO RUPEE NOTE"(ZRN) as our primary campaign tool for propagating our goals and ideals.

Within no time, The ZRN assumed the power of a "Non violent weapon of Non-cooperation against Bribery". It worked like magic every time it was handed out by a honest citizen who chose not to pay the bribe, to the Bribe-seeking person.

In the last 9 years, we have been able to print and distribute 2.5 million copies of the ZRN across 45 districts of India, through various campaigns are titled-
1. Freedom From Corruption
2. School of Democracy
3. Project AGNI
Right now, with a volunteer base of 100 dynamic students from "vasavi college of engineering", we are spreading the movement in Hyderabad.

EVENT AGENDA:-
Through this event, we wish to bring together -all those citizens who are HOPING FOR CHANGE. We would like to start a dailouge on "SOCIAL & CIVIC PROBLEMS IN HYDERABAD", and strategize on an ACTION PLAN to ADDRESS THEM.

Not every day will you see a man and his wife’s husband together on stage.
Come and find out who gets to keep the wife and who gets to keep the misery.

Sifar invites you to a comedy play:

MY WIFE’S HUSBAND

Time: 8 PM
Date: Sunday, 19th June 2016
Venue: Lamakaan, road no.1 banjara hills, Hyderabad, India.

Written by: Miro Gavran | Indian adaptation by: Feroze
Music composed by: Amit Dasani & Suhit Chiruthapudi
Poster & Ticket designed by: Kathik Vijay V
Cast: Maya, Shravanth, Feroze
Directed by: Feroze


Donor Pass: Rs100
Online booking:
https://in.bookmyshow.com/plays/my-wifes-husband/ET00042970#!Tickets


Keep your love and cheer pouring in :o)


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This is going to be a photography exhibition of around 15 pictures focusing mainly on the landscapes and fauna of Leh- Ladakh shot in the month of June. No one can be told how Leh is, one has to experience it themselves. to take in the beauty and serenity of the place. This exhibition is just a peek into this beautiful world of wonderful colours and places.
Tentatively on the 16th and 17th of June from 5:30pm to 7pm.

On World Music Day, inviting all for a free show as "Outrock" perform a gig in Rock N Roll, Classic Rock at 7:30pm on Tue 21st Jun.

Outrock is made up of passionate, hard working musicians who all got together for one common goal, to play energetic and entertaining music, Live. They enjoy every moment of playing live, which shows when we are on stage.

Tonight, Outrock covers Rock N Roll and Classic Rock songs by artists like Elvis Presley, The Beatles, Eagles, Queen, Dire Straits etc. The group comprises of Sashi on Lead Vocals, Raj on Lead Guitar and Backing Vocals, Chakri on Rhythm Guitar and Backing Vocals, Ananth on Bass and Savitr on Drums and Backing Vocals.

All are welcome. Entry - Free.

Funny Side up presents an Evening of Improv and Stand up comedy.

Improv is an Art form where a group of performers create magic on stage by taking suggestions from the audience. No script. No preparation. Everything made up on spot. Stand up comedy will feature three acts by Hyderabad's best.

Be there to have a great time.

For passes:9177854713

Welcome to the 5 years celebrations of Sciensation.

Sciensation is a media-startup which has been doing amazing work in schools since 2011 and the impact can only be experienced. We challenge the filmstars and the cricketers, scientists can be rockstars too!
We are working with 32 schools of Hyderabad and with the association of NDTV and 10 TV we hope to expand to over 100 schools by this year's end.

Deepti, a disciple of the eminent vainika smt. Emani Kalyani Lakshminarayana will be performing a one hour veena concert on the occasion of world music day. Deepti is the third generation vainika carrying forward the legacy of Emani style, brought into vogue by Padmashree Dr.Emani Shankar Sastri, whose name is synonymous with Veena for over decades. All are welcome to enjoy and revel in the emani baani and bless the artiste to scale greater heights in music.

Entry - Free.

The event is to showcase artists of various talents like poetry, stand up comedy, music and an open mic as well

Samahaara Comedy Night: Filmy Chakkar

Date: 25th June 2016
Time: 8pm
Venue: Lamakaan, Banjara Hills, Hyderabad

Samahaara's exclusive Standup event featuring our best mimicking and playfully mocking the best - of Bollywood. Witness our stars turn into Bolly stars for the night. Lay out the red carpet for the rib-tickling antics of Samahaara's Comics basing an entire evening on our Film Stars. Ye Toh Filmi Chakkar Hain (dekho dekho dekho)!!

Hosted by Mayank Parakh
Featured acts by Rupali Tyagi & Hriday Ranjan
Headliner by Abhijeet Deshpande.

Entry by Donation Rs.100/-

"A Morning with Sirivennela Seetharama Sastry" is an event related to the contribution of Sirivennela to the corpus of lyrics for Telugu movies. Bits of select lyrics from the pen of Sirivennela are played. Each bit selected has something unique about it. It might be an unusual imagery or the application of some figure of speech or a literary experiment or some social significance or some message, etc. Once a given bit of a select lyric is played, the attendees are invited to talk about what they think that given bit of lyric is all about and then the moderator for the event shall sum up the discussion and move on to the next bit of lyric. The Event highly interactive in its nature. The best part is that there is no Entry Fee for this Event. All are welcome.

All those who may not know who Mr. Sirivennela Seetharama Sastry is may visit the following link:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sirivennela_Seetharama_Sastry

Music has the inherent ability to evoke a myriad of emotions and take the listener to unknown realms of life.

On the eve of World Music Day and just when the monsoon sets in, Sri Raga Music School offers a unique celebration with an evening dedicated to Carnatic Raaga Mohana.

Credited as one of the most exquisite pentatonic ragas, Mohana is predominantly known for devotion, love, sensitivity and beauty. Mohana at once fits into any emotional intensity and every genre ranging from Western Classical, Indian Classical, semi-classical, ghazal and film music.

Sri Raga Music School plans to unleash the nuances of Raaga Mohana by presenting a mélange of popular as well as rare compositions in this Raaga. Headed by Dr.Bala Donepudi, the programme would sure promise a lasting fervor of Mohana for the audience.

All are welcome. Entry - Free.