Lamakaan

Samahaara Weekend Theatre Workshop

"Bring out the Actor in You"

Date: 24th Jan to 15th March, 2015
Duration: 8 Weekends
Time: 10.00am to 12.00pm, Saturday & Sunday
Venue: Lamakaan, Banjara Hills, Hyderabad.
Ages : 14 Yrs and Above

Workshop Director: Rathna Shekar Reddy

Samahaara Weekend Theatre Workshop is for everybody from professionals to students, serious actors and acting students.

If you can find time on the weekends and want to learn the basics of stagecraft and acting, our Weekend Workshop is ideal for you. Refresh yourself from your daily grind, learn something new and unique you can use in any aspect of your life, meet likeminded people and bring out the creative side of you.

Spread over 8 weekends (16 sessions), start from essentials of story-development, playwriting, stage-management, design and direction and move on to focus on the Actor in you. Apart from acting, the workshop offers a rich mix of outdoor theatre activities, readings, analysis, discussions, & performances.

Learn about theatre’s evolution to contemporary craft, develop imagination, evaluate material and together bring out a workshop performance at the end of the program.

Contact us at 8341120303

Email info@samahaara.org

Online registrations at
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http://in.bookmyshow.com/events/samahaara-weekend-theatre-workshop/ET00027353

Can India produce Mark Zuckerberg?

*What are the pre-requisites to become an entrepreneur?
*The challenges one face as an entrepreneur?
*What's the scope for youngsters & women?
*How can one continue this journey of entrepreneurship in spite of facing several challenges?

If you're also thinking on similar lines, want to know from others or have vast experience to share, pl join with us.

Anyone can attend, ENTRY FREE

Register: http://www.meetup.com/passionandlife/events/219590472/

The Kalap Story - where Anand Shankar talks to people about the village and living and working in the Himalayas. Along with it we exhibit photographs and art of the place taken during the course of work.

It is a talk at 6pm and day long exhibition on Sat 24th Jan.The Kalap Story has been about a bunch of people who set out to help a remote himalayan community and the community in return left a deep imprint on them.

About Kalap:

Kalap is a village ~200 kms from Dehradun in the Tons River Valley. The community of about 450 people ranks high among the 'most remote places' in India. It is 11 kms from the nearest roadhead and at an altitude of 7,800 ft. The village is a gram panchayat and comprises the main village Kalap and the four settlements - Karba, Unani, Jhai and Dhawla.

About Kalap Trust:

Kalap Trust, is a non-profit organisation working with the people of Kalap, a remote village in the Garhwal himalayan region of Uttarakhand, India. Kalap Trust is an initiative by people who are familiar with the village and its problems. The basic idea is very simple -- 'to make Kalap a better place to live'

These are the following areas where the trust has been involved in:

1. Developing the village as a responsible tourism destination.
2. Addressing Public Health
3. Creating more livelihood options
4. Environment conservation
5. Cultural preservation.

The entry to the event is free and there is no obligation on anyone to support us. It is purely voluntary for the people to support us by buying the work.

The annual eyeball meeting of Lamakaan Amateur Radio Club.

‘Chena Kintu Ajana – Known Strangers’: A synopsis.

The history of jatra, a popular folk theatre form of Eastern India, dates back to nearly 400 years being one of the oldest performing arts of India. One of the most vibrant chapters in the history of this art form is that of female impersonators. For decades, female impersonators held centre stage across suburban and even urban Bengal when the idea of woman playing themselves on stage, was not accepted by society.
‘Chena Kintu Ajana – Known Strangers’ captures the lives and times of 15 female impersonators representing the last generation of such actors in jatra. The history of female impersonation in the art form has also been weaved in through reference to Chaitanya (15th century) and Gopal Ure (19th century). The 96 minutes film tries to showcase the acting nuances of each Rani (as impersonators were popularly referred to), reasons why they took up acting in female characters as a profession, characters portrayed by them and its significance, the popularity they enjoyed among the masses, changes in their fortune once women started appearing on stage and also their life off stage marked by extreme financial hardship and mental turmoil.

The film includes performances by the two surviving Ranis and also a new age impersonator. Six songs have also been included to give viewers a feel of the time. The content of the film also includes interviews of surviving Ranis, family members of actors who are no longer among us, jatra experts and jatra company owners.

Profiles of director and writers:

Dipankar Dutta
Director, Chena Kintu Ajana

Dipankar started his career in a film production house as an assistant cinematographer and was later took on the responsibility of a cinematographer. For s brief stint he also freelanced as a cinematographer and editor.

Dipankar also spent more than a decade with a reputed advertising agency working in their audio visual as well as creative department.

He subsequently setup his own advertising agency D3 and over the last five years have worked for reputed corporate brands strategizing and executing effective campaigns.

Chena Kintu Ajana is Dipankar’s first directorial venture in Bengali documentary.

Debojit Majumder
Researcher and Producer, Chena Kintu Ajana

Debojit has been in the communication profession for nearly a decade. Though an MBA in HR, he has never been a practicing HR professional because of his penchant for communication.

Debojit started his career in a public relations agency and spent almost five years working with reputed agencies servicing a gamut of clients belonging to different industries. It is while working on such assignments that he learnt how to plan effective media and public relation campaigns.

He has also worked in the corporate communication team of a reputed multinational corporation in the manufacturing industry. This exposure helped him develop his media network across Eastern India.

Chena Kintu Ajana is Debojit’s first documentary venture as a researcher, script writer and producer.

Entry - Free

Love lust mocha a play which infuses slam poetry and theater has done successful shows in chennai bangalore and Hyderabad under the production house underdog entertainment which has done 91 shows to date .

Sarvodaya International Trust AP Chapter on the occasion of Martyr’s Day on January 30 2015 is conducting an elocution competition for students of classes VIII to X and a fashion show on the innovative use of khadi.

Venue: LaMakaan, Banjara Hiils

Time:
Elocution: 10 am
Topics: What I Can do to Make Gandhiji Popular or India needs the Mahatma now more than ever before.
Fashion Show: 11 am
“Innovative Use of Khadi”.

All schools can participate.

For details contact:
Abhinav: +919502821999, e-mail: abhinavravichander@gmail.com

NISHUMBITA WOULD LIKE TO BRING FORTH THE "KADHWA SACH" & THE AGONY OF "INDIA - PAKISTAN - PARTITION" THROUGH... KHADER KHAN’S- ESHWAR ALLAH TERO NAAM.

As the title suggests, the present play is based on communal harmony. India has many epithets, like land of regions, land of many languages, etc., but the beauty of this land is marred by an unwashable black mark on its character, the virus of communal hatred. This worm has eaten into the Indian social fabric and has taken such deep roots that there is an imminent danger of a collapse in the system. The present play set in the pre -independence setting looks at the impregnable pain and deep scars of partition. Set in a lunatic asylum, the play looks at the society from the eyes of four lunatics, a Hindu, a Muslim, a rebellious young man and a displaced king. The reasons for their condition and their accusations against the society and systems of oppressions form the central plot of the play. Though the play is set in the times of partition, the message applies to the present day, like for example the statement of the Rebellious young man .We are not lunatics, the people outside are, that is a society of killers, a society of marauders, a society of murderers. In the light of EVERYDAY happenings of communal hatred, how true are these words! Pause for a while and think...

We are planning to conduct a 3D printing workshop to create awareness on this latest technology. 3D printing is considered the next big technology revolution that mankind shall experience this decade. The workshop gives a brief on the 3D printing technology and also gives a live demo of the 3D printer. We plan to conduct the event on 31st January from 10:30 PM to 12:30 PM

Entry - Free

Samahaara
presents

Swadesh Deepak's
"COURT MARTIAL" A play in Hindi

Directed by Rathna Shekar Reddy

Date: 31st Jan, 2015
Time: 7.30pm
Venue: Lamakaan, Banjara Hills, Hyderabad

Court Martial is a gripping, engrossing and powerful play written by Swadesh Deepak. It is the story of a recruit Ramchandar who is accused of killing his senior officer and injuring another. Ramchandar's trial brings startling facts into light that questions the norms of society. This Court Martial is presided by war veteran Col. Surat Singh, accustomed to the brutality of life but is left completely unarmed and broken during the course of this trial. Ramchandar's trial is not only a fight for his life but a fight for a bigger truth. A truth that is more important than his own life.

A blood donation camp is being organised by Street Cause RISBM and Thalassemia and Sickle Cell Society(TSCS). Street Cause RISBM is a registered student run organization which accredits the youth and presents them with an opportunity to help the society. Thalassemia and Sickle Cell Society of Hyderabad is registered non profit organization (Reg no: 5359). It was founded in 1998 by patients, parents, doctors, and well wishers. This is the only society in Andhra Pradesh committed for the care and control of Thalassemia and Sickle Cell Disease.

Request for donors to come over and donate.

Development urbanism - an alternative to the "smart city" concept.
- a Talk by Henrik Valeur.

History bears out that urbanization can be used as a means of lifting people out of poverty. But can it also be a means for building up understanding, care and respect for other human beings and for nature?

The processes of urbanization are complex and dynamic. We should not pretend to be able to control them – or even to predict their outcome, which will be determined by an infinite number of individual circumstances, causes and motivations. But this does not mean that we should refrain from trying to push and influence the development in a certain direction. Pushing the development in a more “sustainable” direction will require a more holistic and collaborative approach that would allow for a more comprehensive understanding of both the problems and the possibilities.

Henrik Valeur will discuss some of the problems related to the urban transition of India, including the air pollution, the contamination and depletion of fresh water resources, the precarious food situation, the lack of proper housing, and various environmental and human health problems related to motorized transportation. He will also propose a number of possible solutions, including the use of plants and natural ventilation to create clean indoor air, the revitalization of an existing system of water canals, the creation of vertical kitchen gardens in a rehabilitation colony, a strategy for making an entire neighborhood car-free and a design for self-designed, low-cost housing.

Henrik Valeur is an architect-urbanist, an independent researcher and the founder and creative director of UiD – a networking urban consultancy and a pioneer organization in the field of collaborative and participatory planning and design. As the curator of the Danish pavilion at the Architecture Biennale in Venice in 2006, he conceived and orchestrated the project, CO-EVOLUTION: Danish/Chinese Collaboration on Sustainable Urban Development in China, which was awarded the Golden Lion for Best National Pavilion. He recently published the book India: the Urban Transition – a Case Study of Development Urbanism, which is based on his experiences teaching, researching and practicing in India since 2010. The book was commended by the distinguished Indian architect Rahul Mehrotra, Prof. and Chair of Urban Planning and Design at Harvard University, who said: "The fine grain reading of issues in the Indian city is an important contribution so is the attempt to connect so many dots to make sense of the moving targets we encounter in Urbanism in India.”

Entry - Free

Tiger Conservation in AP/Telangana is challenging. Both the states have great potential but needs political will to make conservation work.

A Talk and presentation by the Hyderabad Tiger Conservation Society.

Entry - Free

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UDAAN Performing Arts, presents its workshop devised production "KATHA COLLAGE" self stories written by workshop students.

About The Play - The performance is based on real experiences of an artists written and performed by themselves which is called devised production.

Devised performance is a form of theatre where the script originates not from a writer or writers, but from collaborative improvisational work by a group of people.

There is one more seat left for filled in the college. So dean ask the two interviewers to fill the vacant list. From a super hero to an amateur bodybuilder, this play is a comedic ride through the college application process as two recruiters sort through the craziest in hope of finding one sane candidate.

Navrang theatre of IMT-Hyderabad a comedy play "9 ways to screw college interview".

Entry - Free

Hyderabad Western Music Foundation is pleased to announce a

"Music Composition Course"

Have you ever tried your hand in composing music? Do you want to understand the concepts behind the music you like? Do you want to attempt music composition seriously? If Yes, this is a course you must attend! This course will present to you the history, theory and concepts involved in music composition. There will be practical and interactive composition sessions working with music software. This is a logical sequel to the workshop on music production techniques conducted by Nalinikanth in Dec‘2014. The main objective from this course would be to create awareness and interest in western classical music & composition.

Date: 7th, 8th, 14th and 15th February (4 sessions/8 hours)

Time: 2 to 4pm


Requirements: Intermediate level of Western music theory. Knowledge of playing an instrument would be an advantage. Please bring your laptop loaded with music notation software (or empty manuscript papers) with you.

Faculty: Nalinikanth Josyabhatla
Nalinikanth is an IT professional by occupation, and a musician by passion. He studied Indian classical music and Indian film music before developing a deep interest in western classical music since 2007. He was awarded an Associate Diploma in composition from London College of Music in 2014. He is an autodidact.

Fee: Rs. 2000 (HWMF members Rs. 1800)
See the attached program outline for complete details.
For more info and registration: 9912201659 or info@hydmusic.com

Our Science Conversation this month features Prof. Sanjay P. Sane of the National Centre of Biological Sciences (NCBS), Bangalore, speaking on the engineering marvels of insect flight.

The Cmplt Wrks of Wllm Shkspr (Abridged) is three actors effort to stage the entire works of William Shakespeare on Stage. Their effort include an abridged version of Romeo and Juliet, Titus Adronicus as a cookery show, Othello as a rap song, rest of the comedies in one convoluted reading, all the histories through a football game, reduced versions of Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra and Macbeth, and to end Hamlet multiple times, speeding it up every time and backwards.

For passes: 9989997763

The Cmplt Wrks of Wllm Shkspr (Abridged) is three actors effort to stage the entire works of William Shakespeare on Stage. Their effort include an abridged version of Romeo and Juliet, Titus Adronicus as a cookery show, Othello as a rap song, rest of the comedies in one convoluted reading, all the histories through a football game, reduced versions of Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra and Macbeth, and to end Hamlet multiple times, speeding it up every time and backwards.

For passes: 9989997763

Painting exhibition by up and coming artists of Hyderabad.

UDAAN Performing Arts, presents an English play 'Five Grains Of Sugar' About the play - Rajkumar has been requested to write a poem for a compilation to be published.
If you knew Rajkumar you’d realize the absurdity of the request. In an hour long monologue, Rajkumar tells us about his unremarkable life in his nondescript village and the five grains of sugar – the five people – who have stood out in this drab life for reasons stranger than fiction. The filmy mother; her poet brother Pundaleek; Raghu, the school hero; old man Radhey; and the anonymous ‘Truckwala dost’. As Rajkumar talks, the five grains become a single life-game that he has been unknowingly playing for years…and Rajkumar realizes that everyone has a story inside them.
Donor Pass - Rs 100/- 9290013166
Duration - 80 minutes. Written by - Manav Kaul English Translation by - Arshia Sattar Music / Design & Direction - Saurabh Gharipurikar Lights by – Krishna Shukl Performance by - Ashish Aradala.

UDAAN Performing Arts, presents an English play 'Five Grains Of Sugar' About the play - Rajkumar has been requested to write a poem for a compilation to be published.

If you knew Rajkumar you’d realize the absurdity of the request. In an hour long monologue, Rajkumar tells us about his unremarkable life in his nondescript village and the five grains of sugar – the five people – who have stood out in this drab life for reasons stranger than fiction. The filmy mother; her poet brother Pundaleek; Raghu, the school hero; old man Radhey; and the anonymous ‘Truckwala dost’.
As Rajkumar talks, the five grains become a single life-game that he has been unknowingly playing for years…and Rajkumar realizes that everyone has a story inside them.

Donor Pass - Rs 100/- 9290013166

Duration - 80 minutes. Written by - Manav Kaul English Translation by - Arshia Sattar Music / Design & Direction - Saurabh Gharipurikar Lights by – Krishna Shukl Performance by - Ashish Aradala.

Two valuable commodities in human life? With these everything works without it everything seems joyless, meaningless and helpless?

Are we good in predicting people’s age or their bank balance?

Have you ever come across events when you have money in your pocket but you just lost something because you had no control over time?

You want to spend more time with your family and friends but why earning money is an obstacle to do so?

Why growing adults pay more attention to money than time and senior citizens pay more attention to time than money?

Do you think all people in the world will be happy and joyful if they have equal money?

Is it possible to eliminate time factor from life, if yes what replacement do you suggest?

Do we all have equal time? If not then why?

What is not possible for money to buy?

Time is money? Do we really understand that? If we understand do we really care of it?

Rich people want more time, poor people want more money!

What are occasions where you would like to negotiate on price and what occasions you like to negotiate with time?

Three stages of time: 1) Past, 2) Present, 3) Future

Two stages of richness: 1) Being Poor, 2) Being Rich

So are we looking for more time or more money? And what is that one thing which aligns these two commodities at one stage. To know the insight of that stage join in our PAL meetup and you will be amazed to know that how only few people pay attention to it and majority never thinks of it.

3 stages of wealth?

- Time is there but money is needed.

- Money is there but time is needed.

- Neither money nor time both needed

Have enough money, have enough time, so what?

With time you became wise, with money you became wiser!

Oowomaniya invites you to an evening of talk on Women's health and hygiene with a special emphasis on Menstration management.
The discussion will be lead by Anju Arora and Mahalakshmi.

All are welcome.
Entry - Free

SIYAAH HAASHIYE:
Black borders. What is the written word but an attempt to capture feelings and emotions on paper? More often than not, it is a futile attempt. The deeper recesses of the human mind and heart can seldom be explored or expressed with words. Language has its own limitations and yet it can serve as a tool to liberate oneself of feelings like hopelessness or helplessness.

First published in 1947 (the year that India was divided), Siyaah Haashiye is a collection of 32 cameos written by Sa’adat Hasan Manto, often referred to as ‘the original enfant terrible of Urdu literature’. A man who had little regard for the societal or literary norms of any time, Manto tried to capture the truth of humanity and its downfall as he saw it.

Siyaah Haashiye are vignettes of the partition of India; written with the same dark blood that oozed from both sides on a land that was ripped to pieces and has never quite managed to pull itself together yet. More than 67 years have passed; 60 since Manto himself was laid to rest but the bloodstains of that massacre still haunt the generations on both sides of the divide: dates have changed; places have changed and so have names but the nature of man remains the same; the struggle against our own self continues.

written by Sa'adat Hasan Manto and directed by Deepti Girotra and Vinay Varma, which we are staging on 14th and 15th of feb 7:30 pm.

For passes: 9848052541

SIYAAH HAASHIYE: Black borders. What is the written word but an attempt to capture feelings and emotions on paper? More often than not, it is a futile attempt. The deeper recesses of the human mind and heart can seldom be explored or expressed with words. Language has its own limitations and yet it can serve as a tool to liberate oneself of feelings like hopelessness or helplessness.
First published in 1947 (the year that India was divided), Siyaah Haashiye is a collection of 32 cameos written by Sa’adat Hasan Manto, often referred to as ‘the original enfant terrible of Urdu literature’. A man who had little regard for the societal or literary norms of any time, Manto tried to capture the truth of humanity and its downfall as he saw it.
Siyaah Haashiye are vignettes of the partition of India; written with the same dark blood that oozed from both sides on a land that was ripped to pieces and has never quite managed to pull itself together yet. More than 67 years have passed; 60 since Manto himself was laid to rest but the bloodstains of that massacre still haunt the generations on both sides of the divide: dates have changed; places have changed and so have names but the nature of man remains the same; the struggle against our own self continues.
written by Sa'adat Hasan Manto and directed by Deepti Girotra and Vinay Varma, which we are staging on 14th and 15th of feb 7:30 pm.
For passes: 9848052541

As the digital marketing landscape continues to grow at a rapid pace, marketers are faced with new challenges and opportunities within this digital age.This Digital Marketing talk is an initiative designed to educate students in the area of Digital Marketing.Importance of digital presence.

Apna Watan, well-known NGO of Hyderabad is organisng a meeting in joint action with other Civil Society organisations of the city to protest against the news of the imminent arrest of Teesta Setalvad and Javeed Anand.

The meeting is scheduled for the 17th Feb. (Tuesday) and will be presided over by Mr Kinshuk Nag. Around 08 NGOs are expected to join. The meeting will of two and a half hours' duration. We will begin at 4.00 PM.

All are welcome.

c r e a t i v e e d g e

Doc.Splash

organised by Documentary Circle of Hyderabad
in association with
PUBLIC SERVICE BROADCASTING TRUST (Delhi)
and FILMS DIVISION (Mumbai) present a 3 day film fest from Tue-Thu 17,18,19 Feb.

Day I : Tuesday, 17.02.2015, 6.30 pm

AMIR KHAN . Director : S.N.S. SASTRY .
19 min . 1970 . Hindi and Urdu with sub-titles -- Classical Hindustani vocalist

BANDISH . Director : KAMAL SWAROOP .
30 min . 2007 . English and Hindi with sub-titles --Determinism and freedom in the Khayal tradition of Hindustani music

BANDISH

Director : KAMAL SWAROOP
30 min . 2007 . English and Hindi with sub-titles

The film explores the idea of determinism and freedom in the Khayal tradition of Hindustani music.

Kamal Swaroop is a dual National Award and Filmfare Award winning film, television and radio director and screenwriter. In 1974 he graduated from the Film and Television Institute and even his student works met with unusual international acclaim. He continued with postgraduate studies at the Institute. He assisted the director Richard Attenborough in the filming of Gandhi (1982). He made documentary as well as feature. Famously banned, a formal experimenter, Om Dar-B-Dar (1988) is his master work.
A PSBT production.


BAMBOO FLUTE . Director : KUMAR SHAHANI .
60 min . 2000 . English with sub-titles


Director : KUMAR SHAHANI
60 min . 2000 . English with sub-titles

'Bamboo Flute' is a musical journey into the history, myth and evocations of the melodic rhythms of the flute, an ancient musical instrument, having a history of more than 4000 years. It works through the creative mode of musical as well cinematographic elaboration suggested by the actual playing of the flute. Through parallel and other configurations, different melodic lines may position themselves in time and space to suggest that the creative act is also the comparison generated by the metaphysics of the flute. The form of the film evolves from the musicality and the specifics of its visual correspondence in architecture, dance, poetry and intersecting axes of color and narrative. A deeply meditative film, and one that challenged the established norm of documentaries, by developing a form where the visual follows and is shaped by audio/music, the film is a celebrated and acknowledged step in the search for new aesthetics of cinema.

Kumar Shahani is one of the most significant filmmakers working in India today. He has developed an epic idiom that engages with contemporary issues. Shahani’s films explore cultural memories embedded in classical Indian art forms, texts and objects. His visual explorations of Indian music and dance, the classical Indian epic and contemporary literature mark his practice as unique in the history of Indian cinema. Shahani also engages with European cinematic traditions. His first feature, Mirror of Illusion (Maya Darpan) 1972, is regarded as India’s first formalist film. His oeuvre is considered alongside renowned directors — Pier Paolo Pasolini, Andrei Tarkovsky, Stanley Kubrick, Jacques Rivette and others — whose work is similarly entwined with the visual arts.

Producer: Public Diplomacy Division, Ministry of External Affairs


Entry - Free.

c r e a t i v e e d g e

Doc.Splash

organised by Documentary Circle of Hyderabad
in association with
PUBLIC SERVICE BROADCASTING TRUST (Delhi)
and FILMS DIVISION (Mumbai)
present a 3 day film fest from Tue-Fri 17,18,19 Feb.


Day III : Thursday, 19.02.2015, 6.30 pm


CHITRAKATHI

Director : MANI KAUL

19min .1978 . Konkan, English & Marathi with sub-titles.

Pinguli is an old village on the Konkan coast, about 32 km north of Goa. Here, a unique Thakur community of sixty families haspreserved or hundreds o years three dierent folk forms: Chitrakathi, marionettes and leather puppets. Chitrakathi arose in temples, from the Paithan paintings of mythological iguresand the desankritised epics in vibrant Marathi, following SantDyaneshwar and the non-Brahmin saints of the Bhakti movement. Thisilm traces the evolution of Chitrakathi, a folk form available in the Konkan area of Maharashtra, while revealing the transormation being brought about by modern life.

Arguably the most avant-garde of Indian filmmakers, Mani Kaul has done, perhaps more than anyone else, to open up the cinematic form and to explore the deep ties that cinema has with other classical arts. His cinema is wholly different from the social filmmaking of Parallel cinema, which sometimes sacrifices cinematic examination for partisan politics. Kaul is also one of the few filmmakers from the country who has backed his filmography with a published theoretical framework.


A GROUP PORTRAIT

Director : REENA MOHAN
30 min . 2001 . Hindi with sub-titles

The film traces the efforts of rural women in North Bihar for reviving the Sujni Kantha tradition of embroidered quilts aided by the Mahila Vikas Sahyog Samiti (MVSS).

SO HEDDAN SO HODDAN . Director : ANJALI MONTEIRO & K. P. JAYASANKAR .
52 min . 2011 English, Kutchchi, Hindustani with sub-titles -- Folk narrative art of Rann of Kutch

Entry - Free.

c r e a t i v e e d g e

Doc.Splash

organised by Documentary Circle of Hyderabad
in association with
PUBLIC SERVICE BROADCASTING TRUST (Delhi)
and FILMS DIVISION (Mumbai)
present a 3 day film fest from Tue-Thu 17,18,19 Feb.


Day II : Wednesday, 18.02.2015, 6.30 pm

YAADEIN - KAIFI AZMI . Director : AMITA TALWAR .
57 min . 1999 . Urdu/English with sub-titles -- Urdu poet


YAADEIN - KAIFI AZMI

Director : AMIA TALWAR
57 min . 1999 . Urdu/English with sub-titles

"Yaadein-Kaifi Azmi" is a feature documentary of 58 minutes durationcommissioned and telecast by Doordarshan in 1999. It traces the earlier struggle of this Leftist activist who was an active member of the Progressive Writer's Movement. Fired with idealism, Kaifi Azmi moved to Mumbai from a tiny nondescript village Mijhwan in Azamgarh District in U.P. and eked out an existence doing odd jobs. This is a simple portrayal of an earthy man documenting his initial struggle in the film industry, his ideologies, the highs and lows of his life and career, his contribution to his village and the legacy of work left behind.

Amita Talwar is a postgraduate in English Literature. She was the founder Editor/Publisher of the popular city magazine Channel 6 brought out from Hyderabad since 1990. She has been trained in Filmmaking from the School of Professional and Continuing Studies, New York University. She is a leading art-photgrapher from Hyderabad.

MY DEAR GAY TEACHER . Director : SARASWATI KAVULA .
46 min . 2011 . English with sub-titles -- On well-known poet Hoshang Merchant

MY DEAR GAY TEACHER

Director : SARASWATI KAVULA
46 min . 2011 . English with sub-titles

My Dear Gay Teacher is my attempt to explore the personality behind the Persona called Hoshang Merchant. What lies beneath the exterior and what has been the influences that make Hoshang. A person who is loved, hated, loathed or cared, he brings out different reactions from different People. More well known as the First Declared Gay of Hyderabad, is his continuance in Public Life as a poet and a professor in one of the country's best universities, HCU, a reflection on acceptability of homosexuality in this hitherto conservative society? More than that, to me, Hoshang's life is worth a multitude of films, and I have only managed to make just one, and perhaps, just managed to capture a few aspects of his life. Does this write up, say that my film was partial towards my subject and not rested objective? May be so, but I do hope with this film, I manage to say, "that all is not what it seems to be, and that each of us is a result of our life's experiences".

Saraswati Kavula, a hotel management professional turned filmmaker, she has studied documentary filmmaking from Universtiy of Salford, Manchester, UK. As an independent filmmaker she has made several investigative films about the interconnection of social and environmental and human rights issues.

Some of her films are : Behind the Glitter (45min), Between the Devil and the Deep Sea(73min), The Green Trap (35min), Paradox City (39min), Cutting off a Lifeline (63min), Vision 2020 (6min), Playtime (9min), Coast Under Attack (85min), Seeds of Sovereignty (35min), GLIS(28min)


Entry - Free.

Performing Classical Dance (Bharatnatyam)

Samahaara Weekend Theatre Workshop

"Bring out the Actor in You"

Date: 24th Jan to 15th March, 2015
Duration: 8 Weekends
Time: 10.00am to 12.00pm, Saturday & Sunday
Venue: Lamakaan, Banjara Hills, Hyderabad.
Ages : 14 Yrs and Above

Workshop Director: Rathna Shekar Reddy

Samahaara Weekend Theatre Workshop is for everybody from professionals to students, serious actors and acting students.

If you can find time on the weekends and want to learn the basics of stagecraft and acting, our Weekend Workshop is ideal for you. Refresh yourself from your daily grind, learn something new and unique you can use in any aspect of your life, meet likeminded people and bring out the creative side of you.

Spread over 8 weekends (16 sessions), start from essentials of story-development, playwriting, stage-management, design and direction and move on to focus on the Actor in you. Apart from acting, the workshop offers a rich mix of outdoor theatre activities, readings, analysis, discussions, & performances.

Learn about theatre’s evolution to contemporary craft, develop imagination, evaluate material and together bring out a workshop performance at the end of the program.

Contact us at 8341120303

Email info@samahaara.org

Online registrations at
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Can India produce Mark Zuckerberg?

*What are the pre-requisites to become an entrepreneur?
*The challenges one face as an entrepreneur?
*What's the scope for youngsters & women?
*How can one continue this journey of entrepreneurship in spite of facing several challenges?

If you're also thinking on similar lines, want to know from others or have vast experience to share, pl join with us.

Anyone can attend, ENTRY FREE

Register: http://www.meetup.com/passionandlife/events/219590472/

The Kalap Story - where Anand Shankar talks to people about the village and living and working in the Himalayas. Along with it we exhibit photographs and art of the place taken during the course of work.

It is a talk at 6pm and day long exhibition on Sat 24th Jan.The Kalap Story has been about a bunch of people who set out to help a remote himalayan community and the community in return left a deep imprint on them.

About Kalap:

Kalap is a village ~200 kms from Dehradun in the Tons River Valley. The community of about 450 people ranks high among the 'most remote places' in India. It is 11 kms from the nearest roadhead and at an altitude of 7,800 ft. The village is a gram panchayat and comprises the main village Kalap and the four settlements - Karba, Unani, Jhai and Dhawla.

About Kalap Trust:

Kalap Trust, is a non-profit organisation working with the people of Kalap, a remote village in the Garhwal himalayan region of Uttarakhand, India. Kalap Trust is an initiative by people who are familiar with the village and its problems. The basic idea is very simple -- 'to make Kalap a better place to live'

These are the following areas where the trust has been involved in:

1. Developing the village as a responsible tourism destination.
2. Addressing Public Health
3. Creating more livelihood options
4. Environment conservation
5. Cultural preservation.

The entry to the event is free and there is no obligation on anyone to support us. It is purely voluntary for the people to support us by buying the work.

The annual eyeball meeting of Lamakaan Amateur Radio Club.

‘Chena Kintu Ajana – Known Strangers’: A synopsis.

The history of jatra, a popular folk theatre form of Eastern India, dates back to nearly 400 years being one of the oldest performing arts of India. One of the most vibrant chapters in the history of this art form is that of female impersonators. For decades, female impersonators held centre stage across suburban and even urban Bengal when the idea of woman playing themselves on stage, was not accepted by society.
‘Chena Kintu Ajana – Known Strangers’ captures the lives and times of 15 female impersonators representing the last generation of such actors in jatra. The history of female impersonation in the art form has also been weaved in through reference to Chaitanya (15th century) and Gopal Ure (19th century). The 96 minutes film tries to showcase the acting nuances of each Rani (as impersonators were popularly referred to), reasons why they took up acting in female characters as a profession, characters portrayed by them and its significance, the popularity they enjoyed among the masses, changes in their fortune once women started appearing on stage and also their life off stage marked by extreme financial hardship and mental turmoil.

The film includes performances by the two surviving Ranis and also a new age impersonator. Six songs have also been included to give viewers a feel of the time. The content of the film also includes interviews of surviving Ranis, family members of actors who are no longer among us, jatra experts and jatra company owners.

Profiles of director and writers:

Dipankar Dutta
Director, Chena Kintu Ajana

Dipankar started his career in a film production house as an assistant cinematographer and was later took on the responsibility of a cinematographer. For s brief stint he also freelanced as a cinematographer and editor.

Dipankar also spent more than a decade with a reputed advertising agency working in their audio visual as well as creative department.

He subsequently setup his own advertising agency D3 and over the last five years have worked for reputed corporate brands strategizing and executing effective campaigns.

Chena Kintu Ajana is Dipankar’s first directorial venture in Bengali documentary.

Debojit Majumder
Researcher and Producer, Chena Kintu Ajana

Debojit has been in the communication profession for nearly a decade. Though an MBA in HR, he has never been a practicing HR professional because of his penchant for communication.

Debojit started his career in a public relations agency and spent almost five years working with reputed agencies servicing a gamut of clients belonging to different industries. It is while working on such assignments that he learnt how to plan effective media and public relation campaigns.

He has also worked in the corporate communication team of a reputed multinational corporation in the manufacturing industry. This exposure helped him develop his media network across Eastern India.

Chena Kintu Ajana is Debojit’s first documentary venture as a researcher, script writer and producer.

Entry - Free

Love lust mocha a play which infuses slam poetry and theater has done successful shows in chennai bangalore and Hyderabad under the production house underdog entertainment which has done 91 shows to date .

Sarvodaya International Trust AP Chapter on the occasion of Martyr’s Day on January 30 2015 is conducting an elocution competition for students of classes VIII to X and a fashion show on the innovative use of khadi.

Venue: LaMakaan, Banjara Hiils

Time:
Elocution: 10 am
Topics: What I Can do to Make Gandhiji Popular or India needs the Mahatma now more than ever before.
Fashion Show: 11 am
“Innovative Use of Khadi”.

All schools can participate.

For details contact:
Abhinav: +919502821999, e-mail: abhinavravichander@gmail.com

NISHUMBITA WOULD LIKE TO BRING FORTH THE "KADHWA SACH" & THE AGONY OF "INDIA - PAKISTAN - PARTITION" THROUGH... KHADER KHAN’S- ESHWAR ALLAH TERO NAAM.

As the title suggests, the present play is based on communal harmony. India has many epithets, like land of regions, land of many languages, etc., but the beauty of this land is marred by an unwashable black mark on its character, the virus of communal hatred. This worm has eaten into the Indian social fabric and has taken such deep roots that there is an imminent danger of a collapse in the system. The present play set in the pre -independence setting looks at the impregnable pain and deep scars of partition. Set in a lunatic asylum, the play looks at the society from the eyes of four lunatics, a Hindu, a Muslim, a rebellious young man and a displaced king. The reasons for their condition and their accusations against the society and systems of oppressions form the central plot of the play. Though the play is set in the times of partition, the message applies to the present day, like for example the statement of the Rebellious young man .We are not lunatics, the people outside are, that is a society of killers, a society of marauders, a society of murderers. In the light of EVERYDAY happenings of communal hatred, how true are these words! Pause for a while and think...

We are planning to conduct a 3D printing workshop to create awareness on this latest technology. 3D printing is considered the next big technology revolution that mankind shall experience this decade. The workshop gives a brief on the 3D printing technology and also gives a live demo of the 3D printer. We plan to conduct the event on 31st January from 10:30 PM to 12:30 PM

Entry - Free

Samahaara
presents

Swadesh Deepak's
"COURT MARTIAL" A play in Hindi

Directed by Rathna Shekar Reddy

Date: 31st Jan, 2015
Time: 7.30pm
Venue: Lamakaan, Banjara Hills, Hyderabad

Court Martial is a gripping, engrossing and powerful play written by Swadesh Deepak. It is the story of a recruit Ramchandar who is accused of killing his senior officer and injuring another. Ramchandar's trial brings startling facts into light that questions the norms of society. This Court Martial is presided by war veteran Col. Surat Singh, accustomed to the brutality of life but is left completely unarmed and broken during the course of this trial. Ramchandar's trial is not only a fight for his life but a fight for a bigger truth. A truth that is more important than his own life.

A blood donation camp is being organised by Street Cause RISBM and Thalassemia and Sickle Cell Society(TSCS). Street Cause RISBM is a registered student run organization which accredits the youth and presents them with an opportunity to help the society. Thalassemia and Sickle Cell Society of Hyderabad is registered non profit organization (Reg no: 5359). It was founded in 1998 by patients, parents, doctors, and well wishers. This is the only society in Andhra Pradesh committed for the care and control of Thalassemia and Sickle Cell Disease.

Request for donors to come over and donate.

Development urbanism - an alternative to the "smart city" concept.
- a Talk by Henrik Valeur.

History bears out that urbanization can be used as a means of lifting people out of poverty. But can it also be a means for building up understanding, care and respect for other human beings and for nature?

The processes of urbanization are complex and dynamic. We should not pretend to be able to control them – or even to predict their outcome, which will be determined by an infinite number of individual circumstances, causes and motivations. But this does not mean that we should refrain from trying to push and influence the development in a certain direction. Pushing the development in a more “sustainable” direction will require a more holistic and collaborative approach that would allow for a more comprehensive understanding of both the problems and the possibilities.

Henrik Valeur will discuss some of the problems related to the urban transition of India, including the air pollution, the contamination and depletion of fresh water resources, the precarious food situation, the lack of proper housing, and various environmental and human health problems related to motorized transportation. He will also propose a number of possible solutions, including the use of plants and natural ventilation to create clean indoor air, the revitalization of an existing system of water canals, the creation of vertical kitchen gardens in a rehabilitation colony, a strategy for making an entire neighborhood car-free and a design for self-designed, low-cost housing.

Henrik Valeur is an architect-urbanist, an independent researcher and the founder and creative director of UiD – a networking urban consultancy and a pioneer organization in the field of collaborative and participatory planning and design. As the curator of the Danish pavilion at the Architecture Biennale in Venice in 2006, he conceived and orchestrated the project, CO-EVOLUTION: Danish/Chinese Collaboration on Sustainable Urban Development in China, which was awarded the Golden Lion for Best National Pavilion. He recently published the book India: the Urban Transition – a Case Study of Development Urbanism, which is based on his experiences teaching, researching and practicing in India since 2010. The book was commended by the distinguished Indian architect Rahul Mehrotra, Prof. and Chair of Urban Planning and Design at Harvard University, who said: "The fine grain reading of issues in the Indian city is an important contribution so is the attempt to connect so many dots to make sense of the moving targets we encounter in Urbanism in India.”

Entry - Free

Tiger Conservation in AP/Telangana is challenging. Both the states have great potential but needs political will to make conservation work.

A Talk and presentation by the Hyderabad Tiger Conservation Society.

Entry - Free

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UDAAN Performing Arts, presents its workshop devised production "KATHA COLLAGE" self stories written by workshop students.

About The Play - The performance is based on real experiences of an artists written and performed by themselves which is called devised production.

Devised performance is a form of theatre where the script originates not from a writer or writers, but from collaborative improvisational work by a group of people.

There is one more seat left for filled in the college. So dean ask the two interviewers to fill the vacant list. From a super hero to an amateur bodybuilder, this play is a comedic ride through the college application process as two recruiters sort through the craziest in hope of finding one sane candidate.

Navrang theatre of IMT-Hyderabad a comedy play "9 ways to screw college interview".

Entry - Free

Hyderabad Western Music Foundation is pleased to announce a

"Music Composition Course"

Have you ever tried your hand in composing music? Do you want to understand the concepts behind the music you like? Do you want to attempt music composition seriously? If Yes, this is a course you must attend! This course will present to you the history, theory and concepts involved in music composition. There will be practical and interactive composition sessions working with music software. This is a logical sequel to the workshop on music production techniques conducted by Nalinikanth in Dec‘2014. The main objective from this course would be to create awareness and interest in western classical music & composition.

Date: 7th, 8th, 14th and 15th February (4 sessions/8 hours)

Time: 2 to 4pm


Requirements: Intermediate level of Western music theory. Knowledge of playing an instrument would be an advantage. Please bring your laptop loaded with music notation software (or empty manuscript papers) with you.

Faculty: Nalinikanth Josyabhatla
Nalinikanth is an IT professional by occupation, and a musician by passion. He studied Indian classical music and Indian film music before developing a deep interest in western classical music since 2007. He was awarded an Associate Diploma in composition from London College of Music in 2014. He is an autodidact.

Fee: Rs. 2000 (HWMF members Rs. 1800)
See the attached program outline for complete details.
For more info and registration: 9912201659 or info@hydmusic.com

Our Science Conversation this month features Prof. Sanjay P. Sane of the National Centre of Biological Sciences (NCBS), Bangalore, speaking on the engineering marvels of insect flight.

The Cmplt Wrks of Wllm Shkspr (Abridged) is three actors effort to stage the entire works of William Shakespeare on Stage. Their effort include an abridged version of Romeo and Juliet, Titus Adronicus as a cookery show, Othello as a rap song, rest of the comedies in one convoluted reading, all the histories through a football game, reduced versions of Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra and Macbeth, and to end Hamlet multiple times, speeding it up every time and backwards.

For passes: 9989997763

The Cmplt Wrks of Wllm Shkspr (Abridged) is three actors effort to stage the entire works of William Shakespeare on Stage. Their effort include an abridged version of Romeo and Juliet, Titus Adronicus as a cookery show, Othello as a rap song, rest of the comedies in one convoluted reading, all the histories through a football game, reduced versions of Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra and Macbeth, and to end Hamlet multiple times, speeding it up every time and backwards.

For passes: 9989997763

Painting exhibition by up and coming artists of Hyderabad.

UDAAN Performing Arts, presents an English play 'Five Grains Of Sugar' About the play - Rajkumar has been requested to write a poem for a compilation to be published.
If you knew Rajkumar you’d realize the absurdity of the request. In an hour long monologue, Rajkumar tells us about his unremarkable life in his nondescript village and the five grains of sugar – the five people – who have stood out in this drab life for reasons stranger than fiction. The filmy mother; her poet brother Pundaleek; Raghu, the school hero; old man Radhey; and the anonymous ‘Truckwala dost’. As Rajkumar talks, the five grains become a single life-game that he has been unknowingly playing for years…and Rajkumar realizes that everyone has a story inside them.
Donor Pass - Rs 100/- 9290013166
Duration - 80 minutes. Written by - Manav Kaul English Translation by - Arshia Sattar Music / Design & Direction - Saurabh Gharipurikar Lights by – Krishna Shukl Performance by - Ashish Aradala.

UDAAN Performing Arts, presents an English play 'Five Grains Of Sugar' About the play - Rajkumar has been requested to write a poem for a compilation to be published.

If you knew Rajkumar you’d realize the absurdity of the request. In an hour long monologue, Rajkumar tells us about his unremarkable life in his nondescript village and the five grains of sugar – the five people – who have stood out in this drab life for reasons stranger than fiction. The filmy mother; her poet brother Pundaleek; Raghu, the school hero; old man Radhey; and the anonymous ‘Truckwala dost’.
As Rajkumar talks, the five grains become a single life-game that he has been unknowingly playing for years…and Rajkumar realizes that everyone has a story inside them.

Donor Pass - Rs 100/- 9290013166

Duration - 80 minutes. Written by - Manav Kaul English Translation by - Arshia Sattar Music / Design & Direction - Saurabh Gharipurikar Lights by – Krishna Shukl Performance by - Ashish Aradala.

Two valuable commodities in human life? With these everything works without it everything seems joyless, meaningless and helpless?

Are we good in predicting people’s age or their bank balance?

Have you ever come across events when you have money in your pocket but you just lost something because you had no control over time?

You want to spend more time with your family and friends but why earning money is an obstacle to do so?

Why growing adults pay more attention to money than time and senior citizens pay more attention to time than money?

Do you think all people in the world will be happy and joyful if they have equal money?

Is it possible to eliminate time factor from life, if yes what replacement do you suggest?

Do we all have equal time? If not then why?

What is not possible for money to buy?

Time is money? Do we really understand that? If we understand do we really care of it?

Rich people want more time, poor people want more money!

What are occasions where you would like to negotiate on price and what occasions you like to negotiate with time?

Three stages of time: 1) Past, 2) Present, 3) Future

Two stages of richness: 1) Being Poor, 2) Being Rich

So are we looking for more time or more money? And what is that one thing which aligns these two commodities at one stage. To know the insight of that stage join in our PAL meetup and you will be amazed to know that how only few people pay attention to it and majority never thinks of it.

3 stages of wealth?

- Time is there but money is needed.

- Money is there but time is needed.

- Neither money nor time both needed

Have enough money, have enough time, so what?

With time you became wise, with money you became wiser!

Oowomaniya invites you to an evening of talk on Women's health and hygiene with a special emphasis on Menstration management.
The discussion will be lead by Anju Arora and Mahalakshmi.

All are welcome.
Entry - Free

SIYAAH HAASHIYE:
Black borders. What is the written word but an attempt to capture feelings and emotions on paper? More often than not, it is a futile attempt. The deeper recesses of the human mind and heart can seldom be explored or expressed with words. Language has its own limitations and yet it can serve as a tool to liberate oneself of feelings like hopelessness or helplessness.

First published in 1947 (the year that India was divided), Siyaah Haashiye is a collection of 32 cameos written by Sa’adat Hasan Manto, often referred to as ‘the original enfant terrible of Urdu literature’. A man who had little regard for the societal or literary norms of any time, Manto tried to capture the truth of humanity and its downfall as he saw it.

Siyaah Haashiye are vignettes of the partition of India; written with the same dark blood that oozed from both sides on a land that was ripped to pieces and has never quite managed to pull itself together yet. More than 67 years have passed; 60 since Manto himself was laid to rest but the bloodstains of that massacre still haunt the generations on both sides of the divide: dates have changed; places have changed and so have names but the nature of man remains the same; the struggle against our own self continues.

written by Sa'adat Hasan Manto and directed by Deepti Girotra and Vinay Varma, which we are staging on 14th and 15th of feb 7:30 pm.

For passes: 9848052541

SIYAAH HAASHIYE: Black borders. What is the written word but an attempt to capture feelings and emotions on paper? More often than not, it is a futile attempt. The deeper recesses of the human mind and heart can seldom be explored or expressed with words. Language has its own limitations and yet it can serve as a tool to liberate oneself of feelings like hopelessness or helplessness.
First published in 1947 (the year that India was divided), Siyaah Haashiye is a collection of 32 cameos written by Sa’adat Hasan Manto, often referred to as ‘the original enfant terrible of Urdu literature’. A man who had little regard for the societal or literary norms of any time, Manto tried to capture the truth of humanity and its downfall as he saw it.
Siyaah Haashiye are vignettes of the partition of India; written with the same dark blood that oozed from both sides on a land that was ripped to pieces and has never quite managed to pull itself together yet. More than 67 years have passed; 60 since Manto himself was laid to rest but the bloodstains of that massacre still haunt the generations on both sides of the divide: dates have changed; places have changed and so have names but the nature of man remains the same; the struggle against our own self continues.
written by Sa'adat Hasan Manto and directed by Deepti Girotra and Vinay Varma, which we are staging on 14th and 15th of feb 7:30 pm.
For passes: 9848052541

As the digital marketing landscape continues to grow at a rapid pace, marketers are faced with new challenges and opportunities within this digital age.This Digital Marketing talk is an initiative designed to educate students in the area of Digital Marketing.Importance of digital presence.

Apna Watan, well-known NGO of Hyderabad is organisng a meeting in joint action with other Civil Society organisations of the city to protest against the news of the imminent arrest of Teesta Setalvad and Javeed Anand.

The meeting is scheduled for the 17th Feb. (Tuesday) and will be presided over by Mr Kinshuk Nag. Around 08 NGOs are expected to join. The meeting will of two and a half hours' duration. We will begin at 4.00 PM.

All are welcome.

c r e a t i v e e d g e

Doc.Splash

organised by Documentary Circle of Hyderabad
in association with
PUBLIC SERVICE BROADCASTING TRUST (Delhi)
and FILMS DIVISION (Mumbai) present a 3 day film fest from Tue-Thu 17,18,19 Feb.

Day I : Tuesday, 17.02.2015, 6.30 pm

AMIR KHAN . Director : S.N.S. SASTRY .
19 min . 1970 . Hindi and Urdu with sub-titles -- Classical Hindustani vocalist

BANDISH . Director : KAMAL SWAROOP .
30 min . 2007 . English and Hindi with sub-titles --Determinism and freedom in the Khayal tradition of Hindustani music

BANDISH

Director : KAMAL SWAROOP
30 min . 2007 . English and Hindi with sub-titles

The film explores the idea of determinism and freedom in the Khayal tradition of Hindustani music.

Kamal Swaroop is a dual National Award and Filmfare Award winning film, television and radio director and screenwriter. In 1974 he graduated from the Film and Television Institute and even his student works met with unusual international acclaim. He continued with postgraduate studies at the Institute. He assisted the director Richard Attenborough in the filming of Gandhi (1982). He made documentary as well as feature. Famously banned, a formal experimenter, Om Dar-B-Dar (1988) is his master work.
A PSBT production.


BAMBOO FLUTE . Director : KUMAR SHAHANI .
60 min . 2000 . English with sub-titles


Director : KUMAR SHAHANI
60 min . 2000 . English with sub-titles

'Bamboo Flute' is a musical journey into the history, myth and evocations of the melodic rhythms of the flute, an ancient musical instrument, having a history of more than 4000 years. It works through the creative mode of musical as well cinematographic elaboration suggested by the actual playing of the flute. Through parallel and other configurations, different melodic lines may position themselves in time and space to suggest that the creative act is also the comparison generated by the metaphysics of the flute. The form of the film evolves from the musicality and the specifics of its visual correspondence in architecture, dance, poetry and intersecting axes of color and narrative. A deeply meditative film, and one that challenged the established norm of documentaries, by developing a form where the visual follows and is shaped by audio/music, the film is a celebrated and acknowledged step in the search for new aesthetics of cinema.

Kumar Shahani is one of the most significant filmmakers working in India today. He has developed an epic idiom that engages with contemporary issues. Shahani’s films explore cultural memories embedded in classical Indian art forms, texts and objects. His visual explorations of Indian music and dance, the classical Indian epic and contemporary literature mark his practice as unique in the history of Indian cinema. Shahani also engages with European cinematic traditions. His first feature, Mirror of Illusion (Maya Darpan) 1972, is regarded as India’s first formalist film. His oeuvre is considered alongside renowned directors — Pier Paolo Pasolini, Andrei Tarkovsky, Stanley Kubrick, Jacques Rivette and others — whose work is similarly entwined with the visual arts.

Producer: Public Diplomacy Division, Ministry of External Affairs


Entry - Free.

c r e a t i v e e d g e

Doc.Splash

organised by Documentary Circle of Hyderabad
in association with
PUBLIC SERVICE BROADCASTING TRUST (Delhi)
and FILMS DIVISION (Mumbai)
present a 3 day film fest from Tue-Fri 17,18,19 Feb.


Day III : Thursday, 19.02.2015, 6.30 pm


CHITRAKATHI

Director : MANI KAUL

19min .1978 . Konkan, English & Marathi with sub-titles.

Pinguli is an old village on the Konkan coast, about 32 km north of Goa. Here, a unique Thakur community of sixty families haspreserved or hundreds o years three dierent folk forms: Chitrakathi, marionettes and leather puppets. Chitrakathi arose in temples, from the Paithan paintings of mythological iguresand the desankritised epics in vibrant Marathi, following SantDyaneshwar and the non-Brahmin saints of the Bhakti movement. Thisilm traces the evolution of Chitrakathi, a folk form available in the Konkan area of Maharashtra, while revealing the transormation being brought about by modern life.

Arguably the most avant-garde of Indian filmmakers, Mani Kaul has done, perhaps more than anyone else, to open up the cinematic form and to explore the deep ties that cinema has with other classical arts. His cinema is wholly different from the social filmmaking of Parallel cinema, which sometimes sacrifices cinematic examination for partisan politics. Kaul is also one of the few filmmakers from the country who has backed his filmography with a published theoretical framework.


A GROUP PORTRAIT

Director : REENA MOHAN
30 min . 2001 . Hindi with sub-titles

The film traces the efforts of rural women in North Bihar for reviving the Sujni Kantha tradition of embroidered quilts aided by the Mahila Vikas Sahyog Samiti (MVSS).

SO HEDDAN SO HODDAN . Director : ANJALI MONTEIRO & K. P. JAYASANKAR .
52 min . 2011 English, Kutchchi, Hindustani with sub-titles -- Folk narrative art of Rann of Kutch

Entry - Free.

c r e a t i v e e d g e

Doc.Splash

organised by Documentary Circle of Hyderabad
in association with
PUBLIC SERVICE BROADCASTING TRUST (Delhi)
and FILMS DIVISION (Mumbai)
present a 3 day film fest from Tue-Thu 17,18,19 Feb.


Day II : Wednesday, 18.02.2015, 6.30 pm

YAADEIN - KAIFI AZMI . Director : AMITA TALWAR .
57 min . 1999 . Urdu/English with sub-titles -- Urdu poet


YAADEIN - KAIFI AZMI

Director : AMIA TALWAR
57 min . 1999 . Urdu/English with sub-titles

"Yaadein-Kaifi Azmi" is a feature documentary of 58 minutes durationcommissioned and telecast by Doordarshan in 1999. It traces the earlier struggle of this Leftist activist who was an active member of the Progressive Writer's Movement. Fired with idealism, Kaifi Azmi moved to Mumbai from a tiny nondescript village Mijhwan in Azamgarh District in U.P. and eked out an existence doing odd jobs. This is a simple portrayal of an earthy man documenting his initial struggle in the film industry, his ideologies, the highs and lows of his life and career, his contribution to his village and the legacy of work left behind.

Amita Talwar is a postgraduate in English Literature. She was the founder Editor/Publisher of the popular city magazine Channel 6 brought out from Hyderabad since 1990. She has been trained in Filmmaking from the School of Professional and Continuing Studies, New York University. She is a leading art-photgrapher from Hyderabad.

MY DEAR GAY TEACHER . Director : SARASWATI KAVULA .
46 min . 2011 . English with sub-titles -- On well-known poet Hoshang Merchant

MY DEAR GAY TEACHER

Director : SARASWATI KAVULA
46 min . 2011 . English with sub-titles

My Dear Gay Teacher is my attempt to explore the personality behind the Persona called Hoshang Merchant. What lies beneath the exterior and what has been the influences that make Hoshang. A person who is loved, hated, loathed or cared, he brings out different reactions from different People. More well known as the First Declared Gay of Hyderabad, is his continuance in Public Life as a poet and a professor in one of the country's best universities, HCU, a reflection on acceptability of homosexuality in this hitherto conservative society? More than that, to me, Hoshang's life is worth a multitude of films, and I have only managed to make just one, and perhaps, just managed to capture a few aspects of his life. Does this write up, say that my film was partial towards my subject and not rested objective? May be so, but I do hope with this film, I manage to say, "that all is not what it seems to be, and that each of us is a result of our life's experiences".

Saraswati Kavula, a hotel management professional turned filmmaker, she has studied documentary filmmaking from Universtiy of Salford, Manchester, UK. As an independent filmmaker she has made several investigative films about the interconnection of social and environmental and human rights issues.

Some of her films are : Behind the Glitter (45min), Between the Devil and the Deep Sea(73min), The Green Trap (35min), Paradox City (39min), Cutting off a Lifeline (63min), Vision 2020 (6min), Playtime (9min), Coast Under Attack (85min), Seeds of Sovereignty (35min), GLIS(28min)


Entry - Free.