Upcoming Events

Octopus is looking for fresh and experienced actors and backstage crew for its upcoming production to be staged in Nov & Dec 2012.

The play will be in English .

Two NGOs's are coming together. we are going to discuss on our upcoming events.

Thaali: A Plateful of Plays is the latest offering by Manch Theatre. A collection of humorous short plays. It promises to fill your appetite for theatre and tickle your funny bone. With different shades of humour in each play, Thaali offers you 120 minutes of pure fun.

A short course on the fundamentals of Physics and Astronomy coupled with hands on sessions
in planned on September 2012, which will be preceeded by a trip to the Observatory at Japal-Rangapur.

It is about the botanical drawings made by Indian artists to help Western botanists in their work documenting the Indian flora in the late 18th and early 19th century.

Dr Noltie is a taxonomist, historian & botanist, a Research Associate at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh & a Senior Research Associate at the Centre for World Environmental History. Dr Noltie has curated exhibitions, lectured and written books on his specific interest, the botanical drawings made by Indian artists for the East India Company during the 19th century.

screening of

THE HUMAN BOUNDARIES - on the plight of Hindu refugees from Pakistan

NANOOK OF THE NORTH - Robert J Flaherty's classic. On the struggles of the Inuk Nanook and his family in the Canadian Arctic. The first ever feature documentary.

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THE HUMAN BOUNDARIES

directed by RAHUL RIJI NAIR 35 min, 2011


A group of 151 Pakistani Hindus entered India on September, 2011 with a one month tourist visa. They came to take refuge from the various religious persecutions they had to face in Pakistan. The group which has a majority of children and women are now sheltered in a camp on the outskirts of New Delhi. But now their visa has expired and is facing deportation. Various organizations are fighting for the basic human rights of these people at the political and judicial level. Their story is a grim reminder of all those lives caught up in no man’s land. As more boundaries are drawn across the human conscience, we fail to realize that humanity has always suffered because of those human boundaries. This documentary traces the difficulties they had to face in Pakistan, their life inside the camp and their hopes for tomorrow.


Rahul Riji Nair is a Business Analyst. His passion for film making inspired him to do this, his first documentary. He is a regular columnist for many publications and writes on social issues and international affairs.

Festivals etc :
* Won the first runner-up for “Best Documentary” in Cinematheque 2012, a film festival conducted by the prestigious St. Xavier's College in Kolkata.
* Screened at the International Human Rights Conference in New Delhi.




NANOOK OF THE NORTH
directed by Robert J. Flaherty 79 min, 1922

The classic documentary follows the lives of an Inuit, Nanook, and his family as they travel, search for food, and trade in northern Quebec, Canada. Nanook, his wife, Nyla, and their baby, Cunayou, are introduced as fearless heroes who endure rigors "no other race" could survive.


Nanook is a 1922 silent documentary film by Robert Flaherty, in the tradition of what would later be called salvage ethnography. As the first nonfiction work of its scale, Nanook of the North was ground-breaking cinema. It captured an exotic culture (that is, indigenous and considered exotic to non-Inuit peoples) in a remote location. Hailed almost unanimously by critics, the film was a box office success in the United States and abroad.

A documentary on the life of the Hindu refugees from Pakistan. A group of 151
Pakistani Hindus entered India on September, 2011 with a one month tourist
visa. They came to take refuge from the various religious persecutions they had
to face in Pakistan. The group which has a majority of children and women are
now sheltered in a camp on the outskirts of New Delhi. But now their visa has
expired and is facing deportation. Various organizations are fighting for the basic
human rights of these people at the political and judicial level. Their story is a
grim reminder of all those lives caught up in no man’s land. As more boundaries
are drawn across the human conscience, we fail to realize that humanity has
always suffered because of those human boundaries. This documentary traces
the difficulties they had to face in Pakistan, their life inside the camp and their
hopes for tomorrow.

Rahul Riji Nair graduated from Amrita School of Engineering, with a
bachelor’s degree in Information Technology. He is currently employed
in NeST Technologies Ltd as a Business Analyst. His passion for film
making inspired him to do his first ever documentary called "The Human
Boundaries", based on the life of Hindu refugees from Pakistan. He was
one among India’s representatives at the South Asian Youth Conference
and was the cointernational mobilization. He is a regular columnist for
many publications and writes on social issues and international affairs.

Partho Sarothi Ray is an activist and academic based in West Bengal. He is an assistant professor, at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Kolkata, specializing in the molecular biology of cancer. He has been closely involved in a number of people's movements, such as in Lalgarh and the anti-POSCO movement in Odisha, and more recently in Nonadanga. He is a founder member of the Sanhati collective and the website www.Sanhati.com.

This event is curtain raiser for the upcoming people's bio diversity festival to be held at Nampally exhibition grounds from October 13th to 16th 2012.

On the occasion of the 7th Anniversary of the implementation of the landmark Right to Information Act (RTI),two documentaries that showcase the history of this movement and the essence of the act will be screened. The screening will be followed by a panel of discussion of RTI, how it is changing the governance,problems in implementation etc.

Open Show is a free monthly event that provides photographers, filmmakers and multimedia producers the chance to present their work in an interactive space.

Format: Four curated presenters have 15 minutes each to introduce one project. Both ongoing and completed work is accepted. We welcome diverse topics ranging from documentary to fine art.

We went for a trek on last weekend and we would like to gather at LAMAKAAN on 13 Oct 2012 (Sat) at around 7.00 P.M for about 1-1.5 to share the pics of the trek. Team size is of 15 max. Pleaase let us know if we are allowed to use LAMAKAAN to have this meeting.

Regards,
Peddi Reddy

One Crazy Ride, shot in the eastern Himalayan state of Arunachal Pradesh is about a motorcycle expedition to find a new route across the state which people though does not exist. The film has also won several awards and was judged best film at International Motorcycle Film Festival.

SmartAsses is a comical play about three flatmates who flunk Uni and live on beer and Pizza and are out of work. When the girl, Chantelle, leaves with her boyfriend, George and Jane cross all lines to woo her back including sabotaging her relationship.

ART for NATURE: a slide-show presentation by Philippine artiste-designer Yvette Co, in town for the UN Biodiversity Conference.

See how a woman’s iron conviction and obsession with reputation, money and class destroys her family. Sample this:

“Auraton ke vaaste sui-thaaga aur mardon ke vaaste hull aur bail...khaandaani logon ke yahan ka yahee dastoor hota hai.”

...And defiance: “Mera jism uska hoga jisko main chahoongi...”

Spying and Conspiring: “Hum boodhiyaan deewaron ke aar paar dekh leti hain.”

Frustration: “Vo auratein hain, mardon ke bina auratein. aur kuch nahin...”

SUTRADHAR

presents

BIRJEES QADAR KA KUNBA

A full length play in Urdu adapted by the Late Dr. Raghuvir Sahay from Federico Garcia Lorca’s all-time classic

THE HOUSE OF BERNARDA ALBA

Running time: 1 hour 45 minutes without interval

See how a woman’s iron conviction and obsession with reputation, money and class destroys her family. Sample this:

“Auraton ke vaaste sui-thaaga aur mardon ke vaaste hull aur bail...khaandaani logon ke yahan ka yahee dastoor hota hai.”

...And defiance: “Mera jism uska hoga jisko main chahoongi...”

Spying and Conspiring: “Hum boodhiyaan deewaron ke aar paar dekh leti hain.”

Frustration: “Vo auratein hain, mardon ke bina auratein. aur kuch nahin...”

SUTRADHAR

presents

BIRJEES QADAR KA KUNBA

A full length play in Urdu adapted by the Late Dr. Raghuvir Sahay from Federico Garcia Lorca’s all-time classic

THE HOUSE OF BERNARDA ALBA

Running time: 1 hour 45 minutes without interval

In the deep hills of northeast India, Christianity and pop culture has taken over the imagination of the Tangkhul tribes. Rewben Mashangva from Choithar village travels through the remote villages of the Tangkhul Naga to talk to the old people and collect songs and instruments. The rhythms, melodies and lyrics form links to his own music, which he describes as Naga Folk Blues. In his traditional “haokuirat” hairtsyle and western boots along with his 9 year old son Saka, he performs across india and southeast asia spreading the message that some songs have no end. The film was shot for more than one and half years at Rajasthan, Nagaland, Kolkatta, Shillong, Imphal and other villages of Manipur.

Baluch women in south-eastern part of Iran have made beautiful pottery traditionally for more than 5000 years. Baluch men apply mud on their body and bask in the sun for health and beauty. Woven around the poetry of Omar Khayyam, Soil Water Fire tries to create a symbiotic link in colorful hues and visual splendour.
MOHAMMAD ALI HASHEMZEHI is a young Iranian film maker and photographer.

Grim Pumpkin Theater offers as their third production Vijay Tendulkar's well known play, 'Silence! The Court Is In Session'.

We are back with the Monthly Testers Meet with a totally different way in which we are going to learn the craft of testing.
How ?

We are going to have a one day hands on session on Exploratory Testing. So, we are requesting the participants to bring in their own laptop because the full day would be ONLY hands on followed by group discussions. So the learning and take away would be awesome.

When?

We are planning to have this meet in October 2012
Planning to start the session at 10.00 am and till 5.00 pm.



The event is as usual FREE and searching for the venue which have WIFI facility.

I thought communicating to you because I found your office space has the following pre-requisites

Could accommodate 60-70 folks
Thinking that you give us permission to bring in laptop
We expect that you have wifi facility for the participants to connect
Also expect that you have projector and screen if the hall is big need a mike
White board or some place where we can use for writing
Facility for tea/coffee and snacks and also lunch

* Lunch will be taken care by the participants we are just taking care that its not very costly.. should be affordable

Reality cinema about the biggest drug lord the world has ever seen and The only columbian soccer captain which made it to the world cup

A play in Hindi written by Manav Kaul
Directed by Feroze

Samahaara Workshop Production
" The Fat Politician"
A multilingual Satire based on Alfred Jerry's "King Ubu".

The play is about a politician and his wife who are not satisfied with what they have.

Produced by Rathna Shekar Reddy
Directed by Pejjai Nagaraju

Had it not been for radio, Bob Dylan and the guitar, Guru Rewben Mashangva would be sitting in his village in company of cacophonic crickets and children narrating folk tales.

Guru Rewben Mashangva, the father of Naga Folk Blues and the Music Revivalist will be performing at Lamakaan with his high energy team.

Guru has contributed tremendously to the cause of preserving folk music and working towards the revival of Naga Culture in Manipur after the conversion to Anglicized Christianity. Howey and hao are two recent entries in the list of musical genres in the world and Guru Rewben Mashangva is one of the pioneers, the other being the folk rock band Abiogenesis.

This comedy its inspired on my two weeks experiencing the Conference of the Parties COP11 on Biodiversity, Hyderabad 2012.

Our wife is abducted and you go to the police station to file your complaint. Just imagine you are Ram accompanied by Lakshman, and the wife happens to be Sita…
Your wife is abducted and you go to the police station to file your complaint. Just imagine you are Ram accompanied by Lakshman, and the wife happens to be Sita…
Kaliyug ka thanedaar, Satyug ke Ram-Lakshman…
Dr. Prem Janmejai’s stinging satire on the absolutely corrupt police-neta-criminal nexus
Directed by: Vinay Varma
Duration: 60 minutes