Lamakaan

The story is about two strangers who meet at a park and revolves around how one of them plays on the mind of the other timid guy and psychologically controls him and finally provokes him to stab him and leave him to die. The way how a person can be almost hypnotized with words and finally brought under complete control through sheer brain games is wonderfully
drafted in this drama and can be enacted in this performance.

Annapurna International School of Film + Media acting students are enacting this play under the tutelage of Rammohan Holagundi.

Entry Passes - available at the gate

KUKKA
By Endamuri Veerendranath -

It is a fight between the haves n the have not’s. The Dora or the Zamindar goes to the extent of making the life of the domestic help miserable and worse than that of a dog for his selfish needs and desires. The story revolves around the Dora, his son Chinna dora and the
jeetagadu or Domestic help who goes against the Zamindar Raj in the finale.

This Play is staged by students of Annapurna International School of Film + Media under the tutelage of Rammohan Holagundi.

Entry - Passes at the gate

The next installment in our conversation sessions between scientists and the general public is titled "After the Higgs" and addresses the science surrounding the Higgs Boson, the subject of the 2013 Nobel prize in Physics. We will have a short 20 minute talk by our guest scientist, after which the audience is invited to engage in an informal, free-flowing discussion with the speaker. Interested participants of all ages are welcome. No prior knowledge or expertise is required.

This conversation will feature Prof. Rohini Godbole of the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. A theoretical high energy physicist, Prof. Godbole is an internationally recognised expert on supersymmetry and the phenomenology of collider physics. She is also the co-editor of two books featuring the stories of Indian women in science.

On the Wings of Song brings you a collaboration of musical talent from the twin cities of Hyd and Sec'bad.

They will cover music over the decades, beginning in the 70s and bringing it up to the present.

Presenting this are:

Abbas Razvi - Is a bass guitarist and performs with Skrypt, a Hyderabad based metal band.

Maya and Paul Banerjee - This brother and sister duo have been into music for many years. Paul plays guitar and sings back-up vocals while Maya sings lead vocals. Maya is also part of a secular choir, the Deccan Voices.

Niki and Tania Shukla - The Shukla girls were brought up in the UK and moved to Hyderabad a couple of years ago. Niki plays violin and piano. Tania plays both those instruments and guitar as well. Together they harmonize and sing like angels.

Pranati Khanna - She is an accomplished artist and musician. Accompanying herself on the guitar, she sings with the sweetest of voices.
Sarosh Master - Sarosh is a sessions guitarist who accompanies and has accompanied many a band and singer in Hyderabad. He covers all genres from pop to blues and rock.

Suresh - Suresh is the lead guitarist of the bluesrock band Nile. His playing brings with it the smoothness of the music of Santana and other bands of the 80s and 90s.

Shakila - Her vocals span everything from from the styles of pop to jazz. Being part of the only jazz band in town, Jazz for Joy, she also sings with Nile and the Deccan Voices.

Viren Kundu - A relative newbie to the music scene, he plays a soft, melodious acoustic guitar.
Zervan Lakdawala - He is the lead vocalist of the band Reverb. He accompanies himself on the keyboard. He has performed in Mumbai, Chennai and Bangalore apart from his regular performances in Hyderabad.

Entry passes - at the Gate.

TWIN CITY THEATER AND CULTURAL FESTIVAL

In Collaboration with: Lamakaan, Mocha Banjara Hills, Rock Castle, Roots, Our Sacred Space.
An event to gather all the painters together to paint their Twin city Theater and Cultural Festival
Bring your Tools, (brushes), Paint and Canvas will be provided.
Open to all Painters

Worls Puppet day-March 21, 2013

The puppetry story is a story 'Remembering and Forgetting' by Shri T. Rangarajan-Theatre artists from Hubli- Dharwad region, Karnataka.

It is about brain connection: when one wants to remember certain things but forgets, the only way to make them remember is - to ask them not to remember it. Result: One keeps remembering it all the time.

Similar is our habits too. The story revolves around a bald head King who wants to regrow hair on his bald head. So, he invites the best Ayurvedic specialist, Siddha specialist and so on. As everybody fail in their attempts, a clever man by name Bantuklal Patra takes the advantage of the situation and promises to regrow hair on bald head of the King within a month. He prepares a special oil and asks the King to apply it on his head everyday, with a condition that he should not eat, see, touch, hear think or remember cucumbers - as he says "cucumbers have negative impact and hence, the hair growth would not be possible". Need not mention that Cucumber is the only thing king remembers all day and all night!

Entry - 100/-

a performance on the underlying theme of memory and madness in Leopoldo Maria Panero's Mondragon poems with additional text from the Language of Flowers and Aphorisms by Cesar Vallejo and a line from Lorca as a part of Twin City Theatre and Cultural festival tribute to Leopolodo Maria Panero who passed away on March 5, 2014

directed and performed by Parnab Mukherjee

installation: Gautam Bajoria and Baishampayan Saha.

Entry - Free

The play is an interaction between a boy and a girl who have met each other for marriage, due to family's insistance. The girl seems introvert and very negative about Arranged marriages, love marriages, and even relationships in general. The boy tries to change her perspective about relationships and to show her the bright side.

Would he succeed to convince the girl on the end? Come and watch the play.
Open to All

Entry - Free

UIFF-2014, is a traveling film festival, specially screening films on issues of Nuclear technology. The festival is part of Uranium Film Festival, which is conducted in different cities of the world to bring in public awareness against the dangers of radiation due to Nuclear industries. As india is mad in going for more and more nuclear establishments much against the concerns of public health, the festival aims facilitate public discourse against nuclear establishments.

Samahaara Workshop Production
presents

Samahaara Comedy Night:

Stand-up Comedy by Anjali Parvati Koda
&
Short Plays by Team Samahaara

Directed by Rathna Shekar Reddy


It's baaaaaaaack. Remember how much fun we had last time? It's going to be Double the Fun this time with 2 Nights of Comedy Plays and Stand-up (The second night being a repeat show). Get that funny bone tickled with mad, funny, impish, satirical and hilarious characters and situations.

Watch and be amused at the reality behind a "Fairy Tale Wedding", grin at the banter between a crazy writer and her friend as he tries to edit her play which is "the most important play in the world". Chuckle as a father takes his son out into the big bad world to "experience things" and laugh out loud as two therapy patients get together on a blind date. Wait, there's more - nope, we'll wait for you to come be a part of it all. See you there.

Entry by Donation Rs.100/-

Tele bookings: 8341120303
Online booking: www.bookmyshow.com

Samahaara Workshop Production presents
Samahaara Comedy Night:
Stand-up Comedy by Anjali Parvati Koda & Short Plays by Team Samahaara
Directed by Rathna Shekar Reddy
It's baaaaaaaack. Remember how much fun we had last time? It's going to be Double the Fun this time with 2 Nights of Comedy Plays and Stand-up (The second night being a repeat show). Get that funny bone tickled with mad, funny, impish, satirical and hilarious characters and situations.
Watch and be amused at the reality behind a "Fairy Tale Wedding", grin at the banter between a crazy writer and her friend as he tries to edit her play which is "the most important play in the world". Chuckle as a father takes his son out into the big bad world to "experience things" and laugh out loud as two therapy patients get together on a blind date. Wait, there's more - nope, we'll wait for you to come be a part of it all. See you there.
Entry by Donation Rs.100/-
Tele bookings: 8341120303 Online booking: www.bookmyshow.com

About The Play - April Fool ….pranks can be notorious ….but truth can be uglier ….!! How many of us have dealt with imprisonment of all sorts inside our own homes??? Where freedom of speech, freedom of thought & freedom as such is a rare entity …!!! Hasn’t the world seen the most disturbing parental relationships, yet? The impact of a disturbed child hood is grave, not even close to what a non-victim can imagine!!!
The story of 4 roommates (Anil,Ajay,Sirish & rakesh) in a college hostel who plan to play a prank with their friend to pull his leg .These 4 have been together for a while now, they know each other pretty well. 3 of them plan to tell Ajay that his father is here & waiting for him in the room. He is shocked, because his father never came to see him in 3 years. He rushes to the room to meet him & finds out that there is nobody in the room except for his 3 prankster friends .He is irated because of the topic they chose to pull his leg ,’His Father’. He pounces on them yelling, these 3 were in no mood to give up. They continue saying that his father is here, the 3 of them keep talking to a chair claiming he was there. After a while he kind of believes

Hyderabad's oldest Amateur Theatre group, Dramatic Circle of Hyderabad celebrates its 50th year with 3 short plays by Chekov -The Sneeze, The Surgery and The Arrangement.

Entry Passes - 50/-

Hyderabad's oldest Amateur Theatre group, Dramatic Circle of Hyderabad celebrates its 50th year with 3 short plays by Chekov -The Sneeze, The Surgery and The Arrangement.

Entry Passes - 50/-

Sambalpuri folk dance will be performed by the children from Books n More Library and Activity Centre.
Sambalpuri Folk Dance in the Rangabati style will be presented by the students from Books n More Library and Activity Centre. Guru Archana Misra , an exponent of the Sambalpuri folk dance form has been training children in the age group of 7-14 years at our Centre. This performance is a culmination of their efforts in learning this folk style that celebrates Nua Khali (harvest).

Entry - Free

Children from Books n More Library and Activity Centre will be presenting this much loved Children's classic Chitti Chitti Bang Bang. This hour long performance of the play will be staged by the children under the guidance of Ms Anuradha Vinod.

All are welcome. Entry - Free

The play “Daddy’s lil girl” is divided in three parts which throw light on the 3 major parts of a woman’s life. The first
part is about how the parents of the girl are in doubt whether to have her or not, putting her very existence into
jeopardy. This part has both the mother and the father present arguments about why they should or shouldn’t
have a baby and another couple enacting the imaginations – both fears & expectations of the parents. How they
come to the decision whether or not they should have a baby is showcased in this part.
The second part shows the girl in her early twenties. She has just got a job and her parents are looking for
matrimonial alliances for her. However, she doesn’t like any of the matches her parents bring forth. After a long
wait, she does finally like one of the matches her parents bring and the wedding is fixed…but only a few days
before the wedding she gets to know something about the guy that will make her rethink her decision to marry
him. What is that thing..? What does she decide? How she copes with her decision? Does her family support her?
All these questions are answered in the second part.
The third part is a monologue that portrays the life of a highly successful woman in her mid-30’s and is a divorcee.
She is tired of the questions she is asked at every turn of life, the justification she has to give for every step she
takes. Annoyed at the change of people’s attitude towards her since the divorce, she expresses her frustration at
the lack of support from her close ones and expresses anguish at the current state of affairs of the chauvinistic
society.

Directed by: Rahul R
Directors Note:
‘Daddy’s lil girl’ is a depiction of the various stages of women life which are influenced or
dictated by the allegedly ‘stronger’ sex or the same .This play is a unheard voice of the
ordinary women who fails to express he distress to her loved one & also talk about how
women can take control completely when required. We focus on her ….her sacrifices, her
fear, her strength, her ego , her happiness , her love , her passion & her every lil thing …!!

Written by: Sherin Bhat

Entry Passes - 9885730673

The play “Daddy’s lil girl” is divided in three parts which throw light on the 3 major parts of a woman’s life. The first part is about how the parents of the girl are in doubt whether to have her or not, putting her very existence into jeopardy. This part has both the mother and the father present arguments about why they should or shouldn’t have a baby and another couple enacting the imaginations – both fears & expectations of the parents. How they come to the decision whether or not they should have a baby is showcased in this part. The second part shows the girl in her early twenties. She has just got a job and her parents are looking for matrimonial alliances for her. However, she doesn’t like any of the matches her parents bring forth. After a long wait, she does finally like one of the matches her parents bring and the wedding is fixed…but only a few days before the wedding she gets to know something about the guy that will make her rethink her decision to marry him. What is that thing..? What does she decide? How she copes with her decision? Does her family support her? All these questions are answered in the second part. The third part is a monologue that portrays the life of a highly successful woman in her mid-30’s and is a divorcee. She is tired of the questions she is asked at every turn of life, the justification she has to give for every step she takes. Annoyed at the change of people’s attitude towards her since the divorce, she expresses her frustration at the lack of support from her close ones and expresses anguish at the current state of affairs of the chauvinistic society.
Directed by: Rahul R Directors Note: ‘Daddy’s lil girl’ is a depiction of the various stages of women life which are influenced or dictated by the allegedly ‘stronger’ sex or the same .This play is a unheard voice of the ordinary women who fails to express he distress to her loved one & also talk about how women can take control completely when required. We focus on her ….her sacrifices, her fear, her strength, her ego , her happiness , her love , her passion & her every lil thing …!!
Written by: Sherin Bhat
Entry Passes - 9885730673

Two 25 year old strangers meet on a hill top. One of them dreams to become a Bollywood star, and all his struggle goes in vain. The other one lost his girl friend in an accident because of his rash riding. Both are depressed and dont feel like living so they come here to commit suicide. The moment they met each other an argument arises. Now what is going to happen? Suicide or murder? Come and watch. Cast&Crew A - Sunjit Rao B - Vinayak Raikhelkar Direction - Saurabh Gharipurikar Music - Ashutosh Patwardhan Entry - 9290013166

An exclusive exhibition of traditional paintings, figures and landscapes and modern art by Ruchi Bhargava.

Come to experience art at its best!

Hyderabad's oldest Amateur Theatre group, Dramatic Circle of Hyderabad celebrates its 50th year with "Owl and the Pussycat" a comedy written by Bill Manhoff.

It is a comedy about a pair of San Francisco apartment dwellers opened in 1964, it was considered an incipient sign of changing times. The two characters definitely did not fit the uptown mold.

One, a would-be writer who works in a bookstore, is a pseudo-intellectual mope. The other, a would-be model who turns tricks, is an illiterate prostitute working out of her living room. Both were regarded, on Broadway at least, as daringly downtown.

Entry Passes - 100/-

The vision is to help discover the entrepreneurial spirit in YOU and convert or promote ideas or talent. Simply, we put ideas to work as an individual, group or institution.
Moving to an informative age of learning and doing, away from traditional approach of launching a business accompanied with the inaccessibility to resources for a start, Ideapreneur seeks to significantly create the right support to startup and business development offering to the youthful Africana, foreigners and Indians. On this premise, this show aims at providing a platform for identifying, harnessing, opportunities for Africans-India to innovate and venture, business development, access to information, access to solid networks and fund, assist to negotiate investment with venture capitalist.

Hyderabad's oldest Amateur Theatre group, Dramatic Circle of Hyderabad celebrates its 50th year with "Owl and the Pussycat" a comedy written by Bill Manhoff.

It is a comedy about a pair of San Francisco apartment dwellers opened in 1964, it was considered an incipient sign of changing times. The two characters definitely did not fit the uptown mold.

One, a would-be writer who works in a bookstore, is a pseudo-intellectual mope. The other, a would-be model who turns tricks, is an illiterate prostitute working out of her living room. Both were regarded, on Broadway at least, as daringly downtown.

Entry Passes - 100/-

Resource Person: Akhil Kodamanchili is a professional contemporary guitar player & composer/producer. He holds an advanced diploma in Music & Technology from Selkirk College in Canada.
The workshop aims to promote original music through basic song-writing techniques and composition philosophies. No formal music training required! It hopes to debunks the popular notion that creativity is only for the “gifted” and attempts to equip each participant with the ability to create music in their own way. Various exercises, demonstrations and methods will be introduced to the participants that will help them experience the joy of creation irrespective of their instrument. Basic lyric writing will also be discussed. The interactive workshop features a segment of guided composition where participants create a piece of original music as a whole unit applying the concepts from the lectures, demos & exercises. All acoustic instrumentalists welcome! Drummers will have to bring hand percussion or equivalent. Keyboard players are encouraged to bring smaller battery powered units if possible (due to limited plug points at venue & the power outages of the summer season). Instruments will not be provided, however you are welcome and encouraged to create music using any object. Computer based composers are also welcome. Non-musicians are also encouraged!
Fee: Rs. 200 Registration on 13th April at Lamakaan www.lamakaan.com
Info: Akhil 8686816060 or info@hydmusic.com 9912201659

Modern art paintings by a few young talents will be displayed.

Entry - Free

Hyderabad Western Music Foundation invites you to

7th HWMF-Community Singing: Prayers of the world
Sharing Music – Creating Harmony

Communities around the world have made used the simple act of singing together to boost their morale, bring each other together, and gain energy.
HWMF is doing a Community singing project with bi-monthly sessions.
The motivation is simply to feel each others' energy and understand what it is like to sing with a room full of people. It is expected that participants have a basic interest in learning songs from all over the world in different languages and historical contexts! For this reason, we have set the minimum age to 12 years.
So if you are fond of singing just for the sheer joy of it, this is the place to be!
If you haven’t attended the last sessions, don’t worry – you can join any session fresh.
If you have – don’t worry either – we don’t repeat repertoire or warm-ups so it is going to be new every time!
Prayers have consistently been sung in a group together, to be heard together, combining faith with ritual. This week, we will be doing prayers from various religions and faiths from the world, like Shinto, Baha’i, Balinese kecak, and so forth!

Some of these are even performance-based forms, and we will explore the musical complexity as well as the subtle differences, and stronger similarities in prayers from various religions! Hope to see you there in faith!


Tejaswinee Kelkar, our course director, is doing her MS at IIIT Hyderabad. She has studied an Associate Diploma in Western Classical theory and composition as well as Sangeet Visharad in Hindustani Classical music and is locally part of the choir group the Deccan Voices.

Lamakaan invites you to a Panel Discussion on "The Dirty Business of Clean Chits" with panelists Kingshuk Nag, Prof.Jyotirmaya Sharma, Shafeeq Mahajir, Kalpana Kannabiran, Dilip Sineon marking the publication of the book, "The Fiction of Fact-finding: Modi and Godhra" by Manoj Mitta.

About the book:

'No instance of communal violence has provoked as much controversy as the Gujarat 2002 carnage. And none has been subjected to as much fact-finding, especially under the monitoring of the Supreme Court. Sifting through the wealth of official material, this book contends that the fact-finding - riddled as it was with ambiguities and deceptions, gaps and contradictions - glossed over crucial pieces of evidence and thereby shielded the powers that be'.

Scrupulously researched, The Fiction of Fact-finding exposes a range of unasked questions which helped Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi procure a clean chit. The book is written by Manoj Mitta, a senior journalist who has been tracking legal and human rights issues over 25 years.

Please join the author and the panelists at High tea at 6:30pm

All are welcome. Entry - Free.

Samahaara Children's Theatre Workshop (8 to 14 years)

Date: 15th April to 10th May, 2014
Duration: 4 Weeks
Time: 4pm to 6pm (Tue- Sat)
Venue: Lamakaan, Banjara Hills, Hyderabad.

Workshop Faculty: SV Ramana
Workshop Director: Rathna Shekar Reddy

For participation and details: 83411 20303
or
email: info@samahaara.org

This summer Samahaara is conducting multiple workshops to cater to the ever growing demand for its theatre workshops in Hyderabad.

The workshops are designed to introduce participants to the art of acting, focusing on learning the basics of Stage acting, Movement, Stage geography, and Improvisation.

As always workshops by Samahaara are fun and handled by highly trained theatre professionals.

DOCUMENTARY CIRCLE OF HYDERABAD
and
FD-ZONE, Hyderabad present

THE LAST ADIEU
directed by Shabnam Sukhdev

90 min / 2014 with English sub-titles

The Last Adieu is a personal quest of a filmmaker daughter to unravel the past and make a connection with her filmmaker father, S. Sukhdev, who died suddenly at the age of 46, leaving behind a huge body of work and an unresolved relationship with his daughter.

While he was an accomplished filmmaker in the public eye, his family had another story to tell. With the help of archival audio recordings, old photographs and Sukhdev’s films, Shabnam endeavours to construct a picture of her father as she struggles to love and respect him for who he was.

The film is an important record of a phase in documentary history that inspired and paved the way for the new wave in non-fiction narratives, and pays homage to S. Sukhdev, an important filmmaker who revolutionized Documentary film-making in India in the mid 60’s, right through the 70’s.

Producer — Films Division
Editing — Jabeen Merchant
Sound Design and Sound Mixing — Mohandas VP
Camera — Ashwin Shukla

Entry - Free

An Evening with 3 Short stories & Satire
Play : Uski Maa
Writer : Pandey Bechan Sharma “Ugra”

Play : Sari Bahas Se Gujarkar
Writer : Sharad Joshi

Play : Anshan
Writer : Harishankar Parisai

Adoption, Design, Direction : Ramanuj Dubey

Play Duration - 70 min.

‘Uski Maa’

Uski Maa is one of the well known stories of Pandey Bechan Sharma ‘Ugra’. This is the story of Lal , his revolutionary friends, his mother and the the chachaji – the narrator of the story. Lal is a student who along with other college friends participating in the armed revolution to free the country from British Empire. Chachaji, the narrator of the story is loyal to Empire but sympathetic to Lal. Chachaji represents the old generation who believes in getting along with the system whereas Lal and his friends represents new generation who want to see total revolution and establishment of new system. The central character of the story is Lal’s mother who loves Lal and his friends alike. Lal and his friends see the mother India in her. This is a very engaging story

About Writer :-

Pandey Bechan Sharma ‘Ugra’ (1900-1967) is a renowned Hindi writer. He is known for patriotic and revolutionary writing. Some of his famous books are – ‘Pili Imarat’, ‘Mukta’, ‘Kala ka Puruskar’, ‘Kal kothri’ .



Sari Bahas se gujarkar -

The story is based on the rampant corruption and bribery seen in public office. The story revolves around a common man who goes to office to get loan but there he is asked to prove himself that he is alive. How he deals with the harsh treatment of the official and gets loan is worth watching.

About Writer:-

Sharad Joshi ( 1931-1961 ) was a Hindi poet, writer, satirist and a dialogue and scriptwriter in Hindi films and television. He was awarded the Padma Shri in 1990. He is most known for his dialogues for comedy TV serials of the 1980s including Yeh Jo Hai Zindagi, and Vikram Aur Vetal. He has also written dialogues for Hindi film like Utsav (1984) and Dil Hai Ki Manta Nahin (1991)


Anshan -

Anshan or hunger strike has deep roots in the Indian society and Indian psyche. During Indian independent struggle Gandhi ji engaged in several famous hunger strikes. In addition to Gandhi, various others have used the hunger strike option during the Indian independence movement. Some prominent names are Jatin Das (who fasted to death) and Bhagat Singh.

But if one does hunger strike to usurp the other’s wife? Sounds crazy – isn’t it. Yes, Bannu is keeping fast unto death to get his love interest, married Shavitri. Ironically Shavitri hates Bannu, but Bannu is determined in his mission. In this hunger strike, he gets supports from various Baba , Swami and social & political leaders and his hunger strike becomes national issue. This is a social and political satire that makes mockery of hunger strike and the system.

About Writer -

Harishankar Parsai ( (1924 – 1995) is a noted satirist and humorist of modern Hindi literature and is known for his simple and direct style. He won Sahitya Akadmi Award in 1982 for his satire “"Viklaang Shraddha ka daur".

Entry Passes - 9848487541

Performing Classical Dance (Bharatnatyam)

The story is about two strangers who meet at a park and revolves around how one of them plays on the mind of the other timid guy and psychologically controls him and finally provokes him to stab him and leave him to die. The way how a person can be almost hypnotized with words and finally brought under complete control through sheer brain games is wonderfully
drafted in this drama and can be enacted in this performance.

Annapurna International School of Film + Media acting students are enacting this play under the tutelage of Rammohan Holagundi.

Entry Passes - available at the gate

KUKKA
By Endamuri Veerendranath -

It is a fight between the haves n the have not’s. The Dora or the Zamindar goes to the extent of making the life of the domestic help miserable and worse than that of a dog for his selfish needs and desires. The story revolves around the Dora, his son Chinna dora and the
jeetagadu or Domestic help who goes against the Zamindar Raj in the finale.

This Play is staged by students of Annapurna International School of Film + Media under the tutelage of Rammohan Holagundi.

Entry - Passes at the gate

The next installment in our conversation sessions between scientists and the general public is titled "After the Higgs" and addresses the science surrounding the Higgs Boson, the subject of the 2013 Nobel prize in Physics. We will have a short 20 minute talk by our guest scientist, after which the audience is invited to engage in an informal, free-flowing discussion with the speaker. Interested participants of all ages are welcome. No prior knowledge or expertise is required.

This conversation will feature Prof. Rohini Godbole of the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. A theoretical high energy physicist, Prof. Godbole is an internationally recognised expert on supersymmetry and the phenomenology of collider physics. She is also the co-editor of two books featuring the stories of Indian women in science.

On the Wings of Song brings you a collaboration of musical talent from the twin cities of Hyd and Sec'bad.

They will cover music over the decades, beginning in the 70s and bringing it up to the present.

Presenting this are:

Abbas Razvi - Is a bass guitarist and performs with Skrypt, a Hyderabad based metal band.

Maya and Paul Banerjee - This brother and sister duo have been into music for many years. Paul plays guitar and sings back-up vocals while Maya sings lead vocals. Maya is also part of a secular choir, the Deccan Voices.

Niki and Tania Shukla - The Shukla girls were brought up in the UK and moved to Hyderabad a couple of years ago. Niki plays violin and piano. Tania plays both those instruments and guitar as well. Together they harmonize and sing like angels.

Pranati Khanna - She is an accomplished artist and musician. Accompanying herself on the guitar, she sings with the sweetest of voices.
Sarosh Master - Sarosh is a sessions guitarist who accompanies and has accompanied many a band and singer in Hyderabad. He covers all genres from pop to blues and rock.

Suresh - Suresh is the lead guitarist of the bluesrock band Nile. His playing brings with it the smoothness of the music of Santana and other bands of the 80s and 90s.

Shakila - Her vocals span everything from from the styles of pop to jazz. Being part of the only jazz band in town, Jazz for Joy, she also sings with Nile and the Deccan Voices.

Viren Kundu - A relative newbie to the music scene, he plays a soft, melodious acoustic guitar.
Zervan Lakdawala - He is the lead vocalist of the band Reverb. He accompanies himself on the keyboard. He has performed in Mumbai, Chennai and Bangalore apart from his regular performances in Hyderabad.

Entry passes - at the Gate.

TWIN CITY THEATER AND CULTURAL FESTIVAL

In Collaboration with: Lamakaan, Mocha Banjara Hills, Rock Castle, Roots, Our Sacred Space.
An event to gather all the painters together to paint their Twin city Theater and Cultural Festival
Bring your Tools, (brushes), Paint and Canvas will be provided.
Open to all Painters

Worls Puppet day-March 21, 2013

The puppetry story is a story 'Remembering and Forgetting' by Shri T. Rangarajan-Theatre artists from Hubli- Dharwad region, Karnataka.

It is about brain connection: when one wants to remember certain things but forgets, the only way to make them remember is - to ask them not to remember it. Result: One keeps remembering it all the time.

Similar is our habits too. The story revolves around a bald head King who wants to regrow hair on his bald head. So, he invites the best Ayurvedic specialist, Siddha specialist and so on. As everybody fail in their attempts, a clever man by name Bantuklal Patra takes the advantage of the situation and promises to regrow hair on bald head of the King within a month. He prepares a special oil and asks the King to apply it on his head everyday, with a condition that he should not eat, see, touch, hear think or remember cucumbers - as he says "cucumbers have negative impact and hence, the hair growth would not be possible". Need not mention that Cucumber is the only thing king remembers all day and all night!

Entry - 100/-

a performance on the underlying theme of memory and madness in Leopoldo Maria Panero's Mondragon poems with additional text from the Language of Flowers and Aphorisms by Cesar Vallejo and a line from Lorca as a part of Twin City Theatre and Cultural festival tribute to Leopolodo Maria Panero who passed away on March 5, 2014

directed and performed by Parnab Mukherjee

installation: Gautam Bajoria and Baishampayan Saha.

Entry - Free

The play is an interaction between a boy and a girl who have met each other for marriage, due to family's insistance. The girl seems introvert and very negative about Arranged marriages, love marriages, and even relationships in general. The boy tries to change her perspective about relationships and to show her the bright side.

Would he succeed to convince the girl on the end? Come and watch the play.
Open to All

Entry - Free

UIFF-2014, is a traveling film festival, specially screening films on issues of Nuclear technology. The festival is part of Uranium Film Festival, which is conducted in different cities of the world to bring in public awareness against the dangers of radiation due to Nuclear industries. As india is mad in going for more and more nuclear establishments much against the concerns of public health, the festival aims facilitate public discourse against nuclear establishments.

Samahaara Workshop Production
presents

Samahaara Comedy Night:

Stand-up Comedy by Anjali Parvati Koda
&
Short Plays by Team Samahaara

Directed by Rathna Shekar Reddy


It's baaaaaaaack. Remember how much fun we had last time? It's going to be Double the Fun this time with 2 Nights of Comedy Plays and Stand-up (The second night being a repeat show). Get that funny bone tickled with mad, funny, impish, satirical and hilarious characters and situations.

Watch and be amused at the reality behind a "Fairy Tale Wedding", grin at the banter between a crazy writer and her friend as he tries to edit her play which is "the most important play in the world". Chuckle as a father takes his son out into the big bad world to "experience things" and laugh out loud as two therapy patients get together on a blind date. Wait, there's more - nope, we'll wait for you to come be a part of it all. See you there.

Entry by Donation Rs.100/-

Tele bookings: 8341120303
Online booking: www.bookmyshow.com

Samahaara Workshop Production presents
Samahaara Comedy Night:
Stand-up Comedy by Anjali Parvati Koda & Short Plays by Team Samahaara
Directed by Rathna Shekar Reddy
It's baaaaaaaack. Remember how much fun we had last time? It's going to be Double the Fun this time with 2 Nights of Comedy Plays and Stand-up (The second night being a repeat show). Get that funny bone tickled with mad, funny, impish, satirical and hilarious characters and situations.
Watch and be amused at the reality behind a "Fairy Tale Wedding", grin at the banter between a crazy writer and her friend as he tries to edit her play which is "the most important play in the world". Chuckle as a father takes his son out into the big bad world to "experience things" and laugh out loud as two therapy patients get together on a blind date. Wait, there's more - nope, we'll wait for you to come be a part of it all. See you there.
Entry by Donation Rs.100/-
Tele bookings: 8341120303 Online booking: www.bookmyshow.com

About The Play - April Fool ….pranks can be notorious ….but truth can be uglier ….!! How many of us have dealt with imprisonment of all sorts inside our own homes??? Where freedom of speech, freedom of thought & freedom as such is a rare entity …!!! Hasn’t the world seen the most disturbing parental relationships, yet? The impact of a disturbed child hood is grave, not even close to what a non-victim can imagine!!!
The story of 4 roommates (Anil,Ajay,Sirish & rakesh) in a college hostel who plan to play a prank with their friend to pull his leg .These 4 have been together for a while now, they know each other pretty well. 3 of them plan to tell Ajay that his father is here & waiting for him in the room. He is shocked, because his father never came to see him in 3 years. He rushes to the room to meet him & finds out that there is nobody in the room except for his 3 prankster friends .He is irated because of the topic they chose to pull his leg ,’His Father’. He pounces on them yelling, these 3 were in no mood to give up. They continue saying that his father is here, the 3 of them keep talking to a chair claiming he was there. After a while he kind of believes

Hyderabad's oldest Amateur Theatre group, Dramatic Circle of Hyderabad celebrates its 50th year with 3 short plays by Chekov -The Sneeze, The Surgery and The Arrangement.

Entry Passes - 50/-

Hyderabad's oldest Amateur Theatre group, Dramatic Circle of Hyderabad celebrates its 50th year with 3 short plays by Chekov -The Sneeze, The Surgery and The Arrangement.

Entry Passes - 50/-

Sambalpuri folk dance will be performed by the children from Books n More Library and Activity Centre.
Sambalpuri Folk Dance in the Rangabati style will be presented by the students from Books n More Library and Activity Centre. Guru Archana Misra , an exponent of the Sambalpuri folk dance form has been training children in the age group of 7-14 years at our Centre. This performance is a culmination of their efforts in learning this folk style that celebrates Nua Khali (harvest).

Entry - Free

Children from Books n More Library and Activity Centre will be presenting this much loved Children's classic Chitti Chitti Bang Bang. This hour long performance of the play will be staged by the children under the guidance of Ms Anuradha Vinod.

All are welcome. Entry - Free

The play “Daddy’s lil girl” is divided in three parts which throw light on the 3 major parts of a woman’s life. The first
part is about how the parents of the girl are in doubt whether to have her or not, putting her very existence into
jeopardy. This part has both the mother and the father present arguments about why they should or shouldn’t
have a baby and another couple enacting the imaginations – both fears & expectations of the parents. How they
come to the decision whether or not they should have a baby is showcased in this part.
The second part shows the girl in her early twenties. She has just got a job and her parents are looking for
matrimonial alliances for her. However, she doesn’t like any of the matches her parents bring forth. After a long
wait, she does finally like one of the matches her parents bring and the wedding is fixed…but only a few days
before the wedding she gets to know something about the guy that will make her rethink her decision to marry
him. What is that thing..? What does she decide? How she copes with her decision? Does her family support her?
All these questions are answered in the second part.
The third part is a monologue that portrays the life of a highly successful woman in her mid-30’s and is a divorcee.
She is tired of the questions she is asked at every turn of life, the justification she has to give for every step she
takes. Annoyed at the change of people’s attitude towards her since the divorce, she expresses her frustration at
the lack of support from her close ones and expresses anguish at the current state of affairs of the chauvinistic
society.

Directed by: Rahul R
Directors Note:
‘Daddy’s lil girl’ is a depiction of the various stages of women life which are influenced or
dictated by the allegedly ‘stronger’ sex or the same .This play is a unheard voice of the
ordinary women who fails to express he distress to her loved one & also talk about how
women can take control completely when required. We focus on her ….her sacrifices, her
fear, her strength, her ego , her happiness , her love , her passion & her every lil thing …!!

Written by: Sherin Bhat

Entry Passes - 9885730673

The play “Daddy’s lil girl” is divided in three parts which throw light on the 3 major parts of a woman’s life. The first part is about how the parents of the girl are in doubt whether to have her or not, putting her very existence into jeopardy. This part has both the mother and the father present arguments about why they should or shouldn’t have a baby and another couple enacting the imaginations – both fears & expectations of the parents. How they come to the decision whether or not they should have a baby is showcased in this part. The second part shows the girl in her early twenties. She has just got a job and her parents are looking for matrimonial alliances for her. However, she doesn’t like any of the matches her parents bring forth. After a long wait, she does finally like one of the matches her parents bring and the wedding is fixed…but only a few days before the wedding she gets to know something about the guy that will make her rethink her decision to marry him. What is that thing..? What does she decide? How she copes with her decision? Does her family support her? All these questions are answered in the second part. The third part is a monologue that portrays the life of a highly successful woman in her mid-30’s and is a divorcee. She is tired of the questions she is asked at every turn of life, the justification she has to give for every step she takes. Annoyed at the change of people’s attitude towards her since the divorce, she expresses her frustration at the lack of support from her close ones and expresses anguish at the current state of affairs of the chauvinistic society.
Directed by: Rahul R Directors Note: ‘Daddy’s lil girl’ is a depiction of the various stages of women life which are influenced or dictated by the allegedly ‘stronger’ sex or the same .This play is a unheard voice of the ordinary women who fails to express he distress to her loved one & also talk about how women can take control completely when required. We focus on her ….her sacrifices, her fear, her strength, her ego , her happiness , her love , her passion & her every lil thing …!!
Written by: Sherin Bhat
Entry Passes - 9885730673

Two 25 year old strangers meet on a hill top. One of them dreams to become a Bollywood star, and all his struggle goes in vain. The other one lost his girl friend in an accident because of his rash riding. Both are depressed and dont feel like living so they come here to commit suicide. The moment they met each other an argument arises. Now what is going to happen? Suicide or murder? Come and watch. Cast&Crew A - Sunjit Rao B - Vinayak Raikhelkar Direction - Saurabh Gharipurikar Music - Ashutosh Patwardhan Entry - 9290013166

An exclusive exhibition of traditional paintings, figures and landscapes and modern art by Ruchi Bhargava.

Come to experience art at its best!

Hyderabad's oldest Amateur Theatre group, Dramatic Circle of Hyderabad celebrates its 50th year with "Owl and the Pussycat" a comedy written by Bill Manhoff.

It is a comedy about a pair of San Francisco apartment dwellers opened in 1964, it was considered an incipient sign of changing times. The two characters definitely did not fit the uptown mold.

One, a would-be writer who works in a bookstore, is a pseudo-intellectual mope. The other, a would-be model who turns tricks, is an illiterate prostitute working out of her living room. Both were regarded, on Broadway at least, as daringly downtown.

Entry Passes - 100/-

The vision is to help discover the entrepreneurial spirit in YOU and convert or promote ideas or talent. Simply, we put ideas to work as an individual, group or institution.
Moving to an informative age of learning and doing, away from traditional approach of launching a business accompanied with the inaccessibility to resources for a start, Ideapreneur seeks to significantly create the right support to startup and business development offering to the youthful Africana, foreigners and Indians. On this premise, this show aims at providing a platform for identifying, harnessing, opportunities for Africans-India to innovate and venture, business development, access to information, access to solid networks and fund, assist to negotiate investment with venture capitalist.

Hyderabad's oldest Amateur Theatre group, Dramatic Circle of Hyderabad celebrates its 50th year with "Owl and the Pussycat" a comedy written by Bill Manhoff.

It is a comedy about a pair of San Francisco apartment dwellers opened in 1964, it was considered an incipient sign of changing times. The two characters definitely did not fit the uptown mold.

One, a would-be writer who works in a bookstore, is a pseudo-intellectual mope. The other, a would-be model who turns tricks, is an illiterate prostitute working out of her living room. Both were regarded, on Broadway at least, as daringly downtown.

Entry Passes - 100/-

Resource Person: Akhil Kodamanchili is a professional contemporary guitar player & composer/producer. He holds an advanced diploma in Music & Technology from Selkirk College in Canada.
The workshop aims to promote original music through basic song-writing techniques and composition philosophies. No formal music training required! It hopes to debunks the popular notion that creativity is only for the “gifted” and attempts to equip each participant with the ability to create music in their own way. Various exercises, demonstrations and methods will be introduced to the participants that will help them experience the joy of creation irrespective of their instrument. Basic lyric writing will also be discussed. The interactive workshop features a segment of guided composition where participants create a piece of original music as a whole unit applying the concepts from the lectures, demos & exercises. All acoustic instrumentalists welcome! Drummers will have to bring hand percussion or equivalent. Keyboard players are encouraged to bring smaller battery powered units if possible (due to limited plug points at venue & the power outages of the summer season). Instruments will not be provided, however you are welcome and encouraged to create music using any object. Computer based composers are also welcome. Non-musicians are also encouraged!
Fee: Rs. 200 Registration on 13th April at Lamakaan www.lamakaan.com
Info: Akhil 8686816060 or info@hydmusic.com 9912201659

Modern art paintings by a few young talents will be displayed.

Entry - Free

Hyderabad Western Music Foundation invites you to

7th HWMF-Community Singing: Prayers of the world
Sharing Music – Creating Harmony

Communities around the world have made used the simple act of singing together to boost their morale, bring each other together, and gain energy.
HWMF is doing a Community singing project with bi-monthly sessions.
The motivation is simply to feel each others' energy and understand what it is like to sing with a room full of people. It is expected that participants have a basic interest in learning songs from all over the world in different languages and historical contexts! For this reason, we have set the minimum age to 12 years.
So if you are fond of singing just for the sheer joy of it, this is the place to be!
If you haven’t attended the last sessions, don’t worry – you can join any session fresh.
If you have – don’t worry either – we don’t repeat repertoire or warm-ups so it is going to be new every time!
Prayers have consistently been sung in a group together, to be heard together, combining faith with ritual. This week, we will be doing prayers from various religions and faiths from the world, like Shinto, Baha’i, Balinese kecak, and so forth!

Some of these are even performance-based forms, and we will explore the musical complexity as well as the subtle differences, and stronger similarities in prayers from various religions! Hope to see you there in faith!


Tejaswinee Kelkar, our course director, is doing her MS at IIIT Hyderabad. She has studied an Associate Diploma in Western Classical theory and composition as well as Sangeet Visharad in Hindustani Classical music and is locally part of the choir group the Deccan Voices.

Lamakaan invites you to a Panel Discussion on "The Dirty Business of Clean Chits" with panelists Kingshuk Nag, Prof.Jyotirmaya Sharma, Shafeeq Mahajir, Kalpana Kannabiran, Dilip Sineon marking the publication of the book, "The Fiction of Fact-finding: Modi and Godhra" by Manoj Mitta.

About the book:

'No instance of communal violence has provoked as much controversy as the Gujarat 2002 carnage. And none has been subjected to as much fact-finding, especially under the monitoring of the Supreme Court. Sifting through the wealth of official material, this book contends that the fact-finding - riddled as it was with ambiguities and deceptions, gaps and contradictions - glossed over crucial pieces of evidence and thereby shielded the powers that be'.

Scrupulously researched, The Fiction of Fact-finding exposes a range of unasked questions which helped Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi procure a clean chit. The book is written by Manoj Mitta, a senior journalist who has been tracking legal and human rights issues over 25 years.

Please join the author and the panelists at High tea at 6:30pm

All are welcome. Entry - Free.

Samahaara Children's Theatre Workshop (8 to 14 years)

Date: 15th April to 10th May, 2014
Duration: 4 Weeks
Time: 4pm to 6pm (Tue- Sat)
Venue: Lamakaan, Banjara Hills, Hyderabad.

Workshop Faculty: SV Ramana
Workshop Director: Rathna Shekar Reddy

For participation and details: 83411 20303
or
email: info@samahaara.org

This summer Samahaara is conducting multiple workshops to cater to the ever growing demand for its theatre workshops in Hyderabad.

The workshops are designed to introduce participants to the art of acting, focusing on learning the basics of Stage acting, Movement, Stage geography, and Improvisation.

As always workshops by Samahaara are fun and handled by highly trained theatre professionals.

DOCUMENTARY CIRCLE OF HYDERABAD
and
FD-ZONE, Hyderabad present

THE LAST ADIEU
directed by Shabnam Sukhdev

90 min / 2014 with English sub-titles

The Last Adieu is a personal quest of a filmmaker daughter to unravel the past and make a connection with her filmmaker father, S. Sukhdev, who died suddenly at the age of 46, leaving behind a huge body of work and an unresolved relationship with his daughter.

While he was an accomplished filmmaker in the public eye, his family had another story to tell. With the help of archival audio recordings, old photographs and Sukhdev’s films, Shabnam endeavours to construct a picture of her father as she struggles to love and respect him for who he was.

The film is an important record of a phase in documentary history that inspired and paved the way for the new wave in non-fiction narratives, and pays homage to S. Sukhdev, an important filmmaker who revolutionized Documentary film-making in India in the mid 60’s, right through the 70’s.

Producer — Films Division
Editing — Jabeen Merchant
Sound Design and Sound Mixing — Mohandas VP
Camera — Ashwin Shukla

Entry - Free

An Evening with 3 Short stories & Satire
Play : Uski Maa
Writer : Pandey Bechan Sharma “Ugra”

Play : Sari Bahas Se Gujarkar
Writer : Sharad Joshi

Play : Anshan
Writer : Harishankar Parisai

Adoption, Design, Direction : Ramanuj Dubey

Play Duration - 70 min.

‘Uski Maa’

Uski Maa is one of the well known stories of Pandey Bechan Sharma ‘Ugra’. This is the story of Lal , his revolutionary friends, his mother and the the chachaji – the narrator of the story. Lal is a student who along with other college friends participating in the armed revolution to free the country from British Empire. Chachaji, the narrator of the story is loyal to Empire but sympathetic to Lal. Chachaji represents the old generation who believes in getting along with the system whereas Lal and his friends represents new generation who want to see total revolution and establishment of new system. The central character of the story is Lal’s mother who loves Lal and his friends alike. Lal and his friends see the mother India in her. This is a very engaging story

About Writer :-

Pandey Bechan Sharma ‘Ugra’ (1900-1967) is a renowned Hindi writer. He is known for patriotic and revolutionary writing. Some of his famous books are – ‘Pili Imarat’, ‘Mukta’, ‘Kala ka Puruskar’, ‘Kal kothri’ .



Sari Bahas se gujarkar -

The story is based on the rampant corruption and bribery seen in public office. The story revolves around a common man who goes to office to get loan but there he is asked to prove himself that he is alive. How he deals with the harsh treatment of the official and gets loan is worth watching.

About Writer:-

Sharad Joshi ( 1931-1961 ) was a Hindi poet, writer, satirist and a dialogue and scriptwriter in Hindi films and television. He was awarded the Padma Shri in 1990. He is most known for his dialogues for comedy TV serials of the 1980s including Yeh Jo Hai Zindagi, and Vikram Aur Vetal. He has also written dialogues for Hindi film like Utsav (1984) and Dil Hai Ki Manta Nahin (1991)


Anshan -

Anshan or hunger strike has deep roots in the Indian society and Indian psyche. During Indian independent struggle Gandhi ji engaged in several famous hunger strikes. In addition to Gandhi, various others have used the hunger strike option during the Indian independence movement. Some prominent names are Jatin Das (who fasted to death) and Bhagat Singh.

But if one does hunger strike to usurp the other’s wife? Sounds crazy – isn’t it. Yes, Bannu is keeping fast unto death to get his love interest, married Shavitri. Ironically Shavitri hates Bannu, but Bannu is determined in his mission. In this hunger strike, he gets supports from various Baba , Swami and social & political leaders and his hunger strike becomes national issue. This is a social and political satire that makes mockery of hunger strike and the system.

About Writer -

Harishankar Parsai ( (1924 – 1995) is a noted satirist and humorist of modern Hindi literature and is known for his simple and direct style. He won Sahitya Akadmi Award in 1982 for his satire “"Viklaang Shraddha ka daur".

Entry Passes - 9848487541