Upcoming Events

Contraband comes together again - this time, to celebrate Lamakaan's 5th anniversary. The band consists of 8 members from contrasting genres, from rock, to pop, to jazz. The melding is a sweet one and here's the line-up:

Niki Shukla - Violin, supporting vocals

Tania Shukla - Guitar, Keys and lead/ supporting vocals

Pranati Khanna - Guitar, lead/ supporting vocals

Shakila - Guitar, lead/ supportiing vocals

Zervan - Keys, lead/ supporting vocals

Kartik Kalyan - Drums

Sarosh Master - Guitar, harmonica and supporting vocals

Farhan - Bass guitar

Contraband promises to bring you a delightful acoustic mix of songs from the Beatles and a few other covers.

Passes: Call 9642731329 or at venue on the day.

LAMAKAAN celebrates 5th Anniversary with

light, shadow, colour, song and movement ……….

"The Magic of TOLUBOMMALAATA" traditional translucent leather puppets show moving images from before there was cinema…..

by Vinayaka Tolubommalata Brundam
from Nimmalakunta village, Dharmavaram mandal, Anantapur district.

Programme :
• Lankini Saapa Vimochanam (The Deliverance of Lankini, the guardian of Lanka)
(with traditional castor oil lamps)
• Raama Raavana Yuddham (The Rama-Ravana battle)
(with electric lamps)

Performers:
Sindhe Sivaram
supported by Vanaarasa Eeramma, Vanaarasa Kullayappa, Sindhe Balamma, Sindhe Sankaramma, Vanaarasa Kaantamma & Sindhe Gangishetti

Resource person: Madhavilatha, G.
Curated by: Sumanaspati Reddy

These artists have been handed down the art and the puppets traditionally by their ancestors. They learn the narrative through oral rendition. This being their family occupation, these artists lead a semi-nomadic life travelling and telling stories in Telugu lands.


also Exhibition and Sale of leather puppets, wall hangings, lampshades etc. from 12 noon onwards


All are welcome. Entry - Free.

On the eve of Lamakaan's 5th Anniversary we are showcasing a week-long events from 10-15th March.

On Friday, the 13th of March Sutradhar presents a play "Bitter chocolate'.
Based on Pinki Virani's National Award winning book, this play chronicles the stories of real-life incidents of child sexual abuse in India.

This play challenges our notions of family honour and morality marks a non-fiction publishing milestone in India. Shattering the conspiracy of silence around Child Sexual Abuse (CSA) in Indian homes, the path-breaking 'Bitter Chocolate' gives the sexually abused child a powerful voice. It is the only work to research and cover middle and upper-class families, as also both, girls and hitherto un-researched boy-children.

Entry Passes: 9848052541

"Going underground to look at the sky"
Description:
The next Sawaal-Jawaab: Conversations on Science features Prof. Amol Dighe of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) Mumbai talking about
neutrinos and the planned Indian Neutrino Observatory that has been given the go-ahead by the Indian government. Neutrinos are the second most
abundant particles in the universe, and trillions of them pass through our body every second. They make the Sun shine, and even the Earth would not
be possible without them. Given that most of them come from the sky, why do we need to go deep underground to observe them ? What does the India-based Neutrino Observatory (INO), one of the largest scientific experiments in the country, plan to achieve?

Saturday March 14th 2 - 4pm.

All age group students and others are welcome.
Entry - Free

Lamakaan invites you to a day long workshop with renowned photographer Atul Kasbekar to celebrate Lamakaan's 5th anniversary at 1pm to 5pm.

Atul will be holding lec-demo workshop of portrait with light movement and sharing his vast knowledge with us. The seats are limited.

Atul Kasbekar holds the distinction of being the first Indian to win the prestigious International Food and Beverage Creative Excellence Awards (FAB Awards) 2005, held at London, for his work on Kingfisher Calendar.

Atul is the owner of a celebrity management company named Bling! Entertainment Solutions. Many celebrities including Deepika Padukone, Farhan Akhtar, Abhay Deol, Abhishek Bachchan are his clients.

Entry - Limited seats. Please send you best photograph - either Landscape or Portrait or any subject or Location to lamakaan@gmail.com and we will get back to you.

Lamakaan invites all for the closing day's event of the week-long celebrations of its 5th Anniversary.

On Sunday, the 15th March at 7pm is "An evening with renowned writer Javed Siddiqi", a well known writer, playwright and a long time associate with IPTA, who also wrote for films like Umrao Jaan, Shatranj ke Khiladi, Ali baba 40 chor, Fiza, Zubaida among others, will talk about "Association of Urdu with Indian Cinema.

His Plays:
Tumhari Amrita.
Begum jaan.
Salgirah.
Hamesha.
Aapki Sioniya.
Andhey choohey
Raat
Hum suffer.
Kacche lamhe etc.

Books:
Raushandaan.
Shaam rang.

In today's presentation Javed saab will share hisknowledge with film writers and film goers the "Influence of Urdu writing in Indian Cinema" with AV clippings and interaction with audience.

Open to All.
Entry - Free.

Aami - art in me, with Queer campus presents "Light and Gandhi" chapter-1,

Date : 7th March,
Time : 8:00 PM.

Conceptualisation and Direction : Sneha Mukherjee
lights and sound : Krishna Shukl
Characters : Jay, Shiva, Satya, Arshad, Munzar, Sadhak and Abhi.

Donation fee : Rs 20/- only.

Narrative of the Play
Light and Gandhi

is a production dedicated to centenary of Einstein's law of relativity and centenary of Gandhi's return to India.

All are welcome.

A night celebrating the legendary Edgar Allan Poe. We will be performing plays that are based on his short stories and poems.

Raven Nights is a tribute to Poe's wonderful literature and his literary world. We have chosen three of Poe's literary masterpieces- 'The Masque of Red Death, 'The Raven' and 'The Fall of the House of Usher' and adapted them to the stage. Actually, we adapted the second and the third one and Mr. Alex Broun had already adapted the first one, saving us some work. These are stories of horrifying madmen, all of them. Each one of them, trying to avoid their own doom. And finally found to be helpless creatures in the hands of fate.

Edgar Allan Poe(1809-1849) was an American poet and author, a master of madness, horror, mystery and macabre. He is often noted as the father of modern 'detective fiction'. His writing is dark, and melancholic. There is menace and death in every step, no matter how cautious one is. Poe's writing is fatalistic and reflects the helplessness of humans, slowly falling into doom.

For entry passes: 9966903264/ 9052692392

UDAAN Performing Arts, presents one act Marathi play "Olakhlat Ka Sir.??"

Written By - Yogesh Soman
Music - Vinayak Raikhelkar
Lights - Pranav Gharipurikar
Design & Direction - Saurabh Gharipurikar

Cast:
Madhukar - Saurabh Gharipurikar
Meghana - Bhagyashree Tarke

About The Play - Olakhlat ka sir is a tale of tender emotions and interactions between a has-been theatre veteran and a chirpy young girl who shakes him out of his frustrated status and makes him feel worthy all over again. As this happens during the course of time, the old man acknowledges the interest of the young girl in theatre arts and starts teaching her acting beginning with basic exercises.
Come one, come all. Watch and enjoy Olakhlat ka sir, written by Yogesh Soman and directed by Saurabh Gharipurikar.

Date - 20th March (Friday) 2015
Venue - Lamakaan, Banjara Hills Rd No 01
Time - 08:00 pm
Duration - 50 Minutes
Donor Pass - 100/-

For more details contact Saurabh @ 9290013166

Lamakaan and 'Finger print' publishers invite you for a book release of Sriram Karri's "The autobiography of a mad nation".

Reading excepts from the book are: Vijay Marur, Shankar Melkote, and B.S.Prakash.

About the Book:
‘I was born in a mentally retarded country.’

Thus begins this provocative, stylish and racy literary rant against India by a 24 year old awaiting capital punishment; hoisting so huge a historic and political canvas to paint upon - opening at the Emergency that almost murdered Democracy and culminating in the Godhra riots, which almost destroyed secularism - a canvas so grand, it will leave you staggered ... and set the tone for a modern story of an ancient mad Nation!

Blurb for the book.

‘Mad Nation is a striking work of imagination…a work every intelligent reader will love’ - Bashrat Peer, writer of Haider and author of Curfewed Night


About the Author Sriram karri.

When asked, Sriram Karri is never quite sure if the nation he was born in, and loves so much, was and is really mad, or if merely he is. Either way, he has witnessed his country grow fondly, sadly, joyfully, regretfully, and above all, hopefully.

Entry - Free.

Photoshop for Photographers, Basic Editing and Retouching in Photoshop for beginners and learn the basics of Photoshop in a 2 hour session.

Entry Fee 100 per person

Join us for Origami Work shop for children above 8 years old on 22nd March 11am to 1pm.

Origami is the art of paper craft - making it into various objects by folding.

Materials to be brought: pencil, eraser, scale, glue, scissors, sketch pens or crayons, some old news papers and 12 ordinary A4 size white sheets.

The workshop is conducted by a 10 year old self-taught student Sai Adarsh who likes to learn various things all by himself.

For more information and Join us for Origami Work shop for children above 8 years old on 29th March 11am to 1pm.

Origami is the art of paper craft - making it into various objects by folding.

Materials to be brought: pencil, eraser, scale, glue, scissors, sketch pens or crayons, some old news papers and 12 ordinary A4 size white papers.

The workshop is conducted by a 10 year old self-taught student Sai Adarsh who likes to learn various things all by himself.

For more information 9392339542, Fee:100.

Let us stop talking for a moment and get to the business. Let's start writing a business plan. This workshop is for beginners to dive in and start writing a business plan. We will go through different parts of the Business plan and delve as much deeper as possible into the structure with in the time limitations of the meeting.

Please confirm your participation by sending sms to +91-97009 21323 and also RSVP at the below link
http://www.meetup.com/Indian-Startup/events/220861662/


About Indian Startups:
Indian Startups meetup group is a community networking group for entrepreneurs across the world to help venture new startups, nurture existing startups, encourage entrepreneurship, provide incubation facilities, co-working space, seed funding, crowd funding, investor connections, co-founders, mentors, advisers. Also the group members provide wherever possible free website, legal, patent, accounting, marketing and other essential services needed to start-ups.

Indian Startups has chapters across the world and some of the most active chapters are
Chapters : San Diego, Los Angeles, San Fransisco, New York, Houston, Texas, Atlanta, Denver, Boston, Edison, Chicago, Hyderabad, Warangal, Vizag, Bangalore, Delhi, Mumbai, Gurgaon, and many more coming up..

For participation: call Anil 9700921323

Gardening meet of all plant/agri lovers gathering to gain knowledge on Bokashi, kitchen garden, Seed and ideas Swap.

All are welcome.

Entry - Free.

Lamakaan invites everyone to an evening of film screening and interaction with Maa Bhumi's -one of India's landmark films - cast and crew on its 35th Anniversary.

Maa Bhoomi is a 1980 Telugu drama film written and produced by B.Narsing Rao based on a play by Krishan Chander on the Telangana Rebellion in Hyderabad State. The film depicts a typical life of villagers under feudalistic society in Telangana region. It was the first feature film of director Goutam Ghose. The film was premiered at the International Film Festival of India 1980, India's official entry at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival, the Cairo and Sidney Film Festivals. The film is listed among CNN-IBN's list of hundred greatest Indian films of all time.

The film brought to foray many talents like Saichand, Gadar, Suddala Hanumanthu among others.

All are welcome to this walk down this memory lane with the actors and makers of the master piece film.

Entry - Free

30+ and Sophie is tired of being single on Valentine's Day, but she's anything but the typical V.D crazy lady. Her life revolves around her cats, her gin and her unending search of a good enough boyfriend who'd last at least a year... and ofcourse her mother who won't let her forget what she doesn't want to remember.

Play: V.D - written by Pete Malicki
Type: A One-Act Monologue (40 mins)
Genre: Comedy Drama
Directed & Performed by: Suzanne Patel
Group: Mint Tea Creatives

Date: 24th March 2015
Time: 8 pm
Entry: Rs.100/- per head - 9885450022

Holdups are the offline (or in real life) part of Make Sense. The objective of the hold-up is to connect Social Entrepreneurs with super cool individuals so that they invent solutions and take up their challenges :).Concretely A hold-up is a 1h30 creativity workshop which gathers 15 persons maximum and which focus on solving a concrete challenge of a Social Entrepreneurs featured on MakeSense. This event leverage of the MakeSense and host communities to activate people so that they take up the challenges of a Social Entrepreneur. The hold-up use specific creative methods depending on the types of challenges. This event is a cool way to engage people with specific competencies with a social entrepreneur.

Depending on the type of challenge with having different type of methods (The offline mini-gang will tell you more about it once you connect with its members ;) holdup@makesense.org). In any case you should take some pictures and videos of the participant and ideas developed on the paper boards.

The Social Enterprise event for you to help Unlock the potential of UnLtd Hyderabad (an early/start-up incubator for Social Enterprises for AP & Telangana region). The workshop will be from 7pm-8.30pm. Hosted by MakeSense, a global volunteer community to support all kinds of Social Enterprises & SocialStarters who are currently out here helping with UnLtd Hyderabad's current cohort of social entrepreneurs. Join us, invite and share with your friends for this exciting Social Enterprise evening!

Sutradhar commemorates World Theater Day with a play "OUT AT SEA".

It is is the story of three hungry men marooned on an island after a ship wreck. Does humanity get lost in cannibalism and political tyranny? Is hunger for food tragedy or comedy? Can man really eat man! Absurd. But that's the reality. The truth is that reality is absurd."

The play is directed by Vinay Varma.

Entry Passes: 9848052541

Decoupage is an ancient Victorian art where paper or fabric is cut and pasted on any smooth surface and then varnished and sanded down to make it appear as an inlay work of art.

Inviting you for a day-long workshop in bottle art 'Decoupage' workshop on Sat 28th 10:30am-5pm with artist Sarosh Master.

Decoupage is the art of decorating objects by cutting and sticking paper with multiple coats of varnish. The result looks like painting or an inlay work of art. This technique dates back to around 18th century in France and Italy when it was considerably expensive to change household furniture.

You can use any surface for your decoupage projects and these could include: Boxes, Furniture, Plates, Bottles, Glasses, Trays, Garden Pots, Photo Frames, Vases, candles, Shoes, trinket Boxes.

The workshop familiarizes you with the basics of decoupage.

Come join the decoupage fraternity...its not just arty and crafty...it's a stress buster too.

For registration: Sarosh Master at 09849953778 or saroshmaster2000@yahoo.com

Sutradhar commemorates World Theater Day with a play "OUT AT SEA" on Fri 27th Mar & Sat 28th March.

It is is the story of three hungry men marooned on an island after a ship wreck. Does humanity get lost in cannibalism and political tyranny? Is hunger for food tragedy or comedy? Can man really eat man! Absurd. But that's the reality. The truth is that reality is absurd."

The play is directed by Vinay Varma.

Entry Passes: 9848052541

Adobe Lightroom Basics

Adobe Lightroom is a very popular computer application for editing photographs and other digital images. When using Lightroom, there are a few simple basic tips which can make using it much more successful. Throughout this article, we will take a look at some of the basic techniques which can be used to get the most out of the Lightroom software.

Post-processing is an essential skill for every digital photographer. You’ll be enhancing your color images, creating stunning black and whites, and easily correcting tricky shots.

· Basics

· Workflows

· Work space basics

· Importing photos

· Power of Raw

· Viewing photos

· Organizing photos

· Developing photos

· Exporting photos

· Slideshows

· Printing photos

· Photo books

· Web galleries



Adnl. Requirements:
Fully Charged Laptop for Practice.
Pen drive to Copy Essentials.
Get your own captures to practice

Charges : Rs.300/- (Theory & Practical)

( We are collecting these charges for the betterment of our club. What ever the funds we have collected will be again utilized for club equipment and maintenance-Meetup payments, Venue charges etc. Further we are planning to buy some studio equipment like Lighting, Soft boxes, Backdrops, reflectors, etc. for our future sessions)


Warm Regards

Ram

Aami - art in me
Presents,

"Silence Please"
A Comedy in Telugu

A scientist goes temporarily blind due to accident in the lab and while he is resting in his house restlessly trying to get used to his blindness, a thief enters the house but somehow manages to take advantage of his mistaken identity or rather say confused identity by Scientist wife, maid and a friend, who all contribute to the scientist's troubles, Will the thief gets caught or will he manage to sketch away is the question. Do come to witness a hilarious burglary because of a accident.

Come watch the chaos and hilarity that reveals its identity in this Telugu comedy.

Written by Shankaramanchi Parthasaradhi
Directed by Krishna Shukl
Cast: Sunjit, Sherin, Harika, Madhav, Rutwik, Ashish.

Venue: Lamakaan, banjara Hills.
Time: 7:30 PM.
Date: 29th march 2015, Sunday.
for passes:9963107235

KaushikDhwanee is a Music Dance and Art school located in Kondapur Hyderabad. It is a primarily Indian Classical Music and Dance School. This program will showcase Indian Classical Vocal recitals, instrumental music performances, classical and western dance performances by the teachers and students of KaushikDhwanee.

Entry - Free.

Explore some short plays of Alex Broun - a couple of them humorous and a couple of them dark. They all focus on the absurdity that is human life. And hence we call this, A Night of the Absurd'.

We performed Night of the Absurd first time in 2012 and then again in 2013 with a collection of Alex Broun's plays. This time we bring to you another bunch of Alex Broun plays, some new and some that we have done before.

Entry Passes: 9966903264/ 9052692392

'As You Like It' by William Shakespeare

Follow its heroine Rosalind as she flees persecution in her uncle's court, accompanied by her cousin Celia to find safety and, eventually, love, in the Forest of Arden.

This play is performed by students form Sloka school.

Entry - Free

Aami - art in me, presents, Workshop Production.

"1 Bataa 5" (Ek Bataa Paanch)

Could two different people in two different places have the same thought? Yes. Can five different people in five different places have the same thought? Why not. 'Ek Bataa Paanch' is a story of five young individuals from different walks of life setting off on the journeys of their lifetimes after they are stung by the same impulse-triggering thought. It overrides their current pursuits and sets them all adrift into different directions, but to eventually bring them all together. This confluence of five distinct forces has light on one side and darkness on the other. Why have they met? Is it the gravity of an unavoidable consequence that pulls them all to that point or is destiny playing a sadistic surprise as usual? Will they walk into the light or leave behind permanent trails of darkness? What will they do with each other, and to each other? Well, you have to wait and watch. “Aami - art in me” presents 'Ek Bataa Paanch', is a workshop Production. A story of five, with five and most importantly, by five.

Cast & crew: Sharanjeet Kaur, Mohammad Afaque, Ramkrishna Arvind, Atul Rastogi, Akshay Singh, Charandeep Surneni.

Direction : Krishna Shukl.

Venue : Lamakaan, Banjara Hills, Hyderabad.
Date: 3rd April 2015. (Friday)
Time : 8:00 PM,

In this busy and fast world, where we tend to forget the dearest relationships with the family, most importantly our grandparents, let us take a break and share a few good memories with the world and people alike. This Exhibition is a collection of Photographs and memories shared with grandchildren and grandparents. Barefoot to Goa is a film that questions life, releasing in theaters on 10th April.
Feel free to share the pictures at kushalraj.patnaik@student.aisfm.edu.in on or before 2nd April, 2015

Inviting all for a Free one day workshop on Ventriloquism with renowned ventriloquist Santosh. Adults and children of above 10 years can avail this opportunity to learn this entertaining art.

Ventriloquy is an act of stagecraft in which a person changes his or her voice so that it appears that the voice is coming from elsewhere, usually a puppeteered "dummy".

Santosh is a trained ventriloquist with diploma from Telugu University Hyderabad. With an experience of more than a decade, Santosh has already done more than 200 workshops on this art. He attended the international ventriloquism convention USA.

for more info website : www.indianventriloquism.com
cell.9849745838
Entry - Free (Limited seats)

Inviting you all for a Telugu film screening of Chandamama Kathalu - a national award winning film for best film in regional language this year - by Praveen Sataru who will deliver a talk on 'People's aspirations in Cinema' followed by the film screening and interaction with the film maker from 6pm onwards on Sat 4th April.

'Poeple's aspirations' have been sparingly addressed in popular media like cinema and TV which have increasingly been catering to more niche, more urbane, more sophisticated life styles - in the process relegating the very masses from the mass media to second tier citizens. There is a clear need to cater to this void and take the cinema in a direction to address various issues concerning the middle and lower middle class and their aspirations.

Praveen Sattaru succeeds in doing that in his national award winnign 'Chandamama Kathalu'.

About the film:
'Chandamama Kathalu Volume 1' is a 2014 Telugu, anthology film directed by Praveen Sattaru and produced by Chanakya Bhooneti. The film has eight sub-stories revolving around love. The lives of the central characters in the sub-plots get intertwined with each other. Lakshmi Manchu, Aamani, Naresh, Krishnudu, Chaitanya Krishna, Abhijeet, Naga Shourya, Vennela Kishore, Amitha Rao and Richa Panai play the lead roles.

About the filmmaker:
This is Praveen's 3rd feature film after Love Before Wedding (LBW), Oka Routine Love story.

Director Praveen Sattaru did Masters in chip designing in USA. Later he worked in USA for around 10 years as a SAP consultant in IBM. His passion towards Telugu culture and movies has made him come back and start penning scripts.


This is a part of Lamakaan Lecture Series discussion various topics like Art, Culture, Politics, Theater, Cinema, Media, Literature every week. Kick starting this series in this season is this year's national award winning filmmaker Praveen Sattaru.
Thamma Reddy Bharadwaj, eminent Telugu Director and Producer will be moderating the event.

All are welcome. Entry - Free.

comedy writing Workshop

The workshop shall enable the participants to master the fundamentals of humour writing through a spectrum of techniques, step-by-step writing exercises and a hands-on approach to thinking, writing, rehearsing and performing comedy.

A personal note :

The workshop is an attempt to supplement my own study of the craft by sharing and exploring techniques that I picked up while learning comedy writing. I also hope to learn from interactions and brainstorming sessions with each other as much as the participants.


Duration : A series of sessions spread over four weekends aimed at understanding how humour works, and learning the tools of crafting comedy for stand-up, sketch and sitcoms. The workshop will culminate with a stand-up performance by each of the participants.



Fees :

The workshop free and has no charge. However, the number of participants shall be limited to around eight members, who shall be shortlisted from the applicants. In order to be a part of the workshop, please register by sending us a brief write-up about yourself, why you are interested in the workshop and how you intend to employ what you learn. to stageshaastra@gmail.com

For more information please call 9849687318

This is a free event.

Hyderabad Metro Rail is a major venture of the Government of Telangana. HMR is the world's largest elevated Metro Rail PPP project. We have been able to get in touch with HMR and L& T to explore opportunities for Local Entrepreneurs. Some of the areas entrepreneurs can explore opportunities are:

Civil Construction

- Metal Fabrication, Pre cast elements, etc

Engg / Design

- Installation Designs, Documentation, Publication

Construction / Installation

- Signalling, communications, track, electricals

IT Systems

- Wifi at stations, advt at stations, leasing fibres, etc

Services

- Security, ticket sales, maintenance services, training

Indigenisation of manufacturing

- systems where indigenous technology can be applied

If you have domain expertise in any of the above or related systems or wish to know other opportunities at HMR please attend this meetup event and explore further.

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What's it like to be a trivia junkie?
'Furiously Curious' - a film by Sarat Talluri Rao takes you on a unique journey of India - one filled with eccentric passionate individuals. Who are however, driven by a very potent human trait of curiosity. There's the tombstone tourist, the boy who builds little airplanes, the old man who got arrested for writing Nostradamus, the woman who's read telephone directories and many more. The film looks at quiz clubs across the country, each with their unique style and idiosyncrasies. It also explores the advent and development of quizzing in India.

About the filmmaker:
Sarat Talluri Rao is a writer and director. A Masters in Quantitative Economics from the Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta he began his work in films as a research intern on 'Sacred Numbers' a film by Dev Benegal on the life of the Indian mathematician Ramanujan.

He has written the story for the feature film 'Oonga' (2013). The film has gone to several International and National Film Festivals. It looks at the Naxal situation but through the eyes of an innocent 7 yr old boy.

He wrote and directed a short feature- 'The Fever' (2014) about a man whose shadow has fever.

The film screening will be followed by an interaction with the filmmaker.

All are welcome. Entry - Free.

UDAAN Performing Arts, presents its 25th theatre production 'Miya - Biwi Ke Mantakaan" originally Marathi script "Gappa" written by Yogesh Soman, translated & directed by Saurabh Gharipurikar Miya - Rahul Reddy Biwi - Varsha Kucchimanchi About The Play - The story is a hilarious take on the 'mantaka' between a typical Hyderabadi couple - The wife, an ever worrying mother of two daughters and her husband, who'd rather take life as it comes. One day, the wife decides that starting a business on their own is the only way to ensure enough money to pay for her daughter's wedding. Her husband prepares her by presenting her with hypothetical, borderline silly, scenarios, she is likely to come across during the course of running the business. What are her business plans? Is she dissuaded from her grand scheme of things by her husband? Watch Miya Biwi ke Mantakaan. For passes: 9290013166

UDAAN Performing Arts, presents its 25th theatre production 'Miya - Biwi Ke Mantakaan" originally Marathi script "Gappa" written by Yogesh Soman, translated & directed by Saurabh Gharipurikar Miya - Rahul Reddy Biwi - Varsha Kucchimanchi About The Play - The story is a hilarious take on the 'mantaka' between a typical Hyderabadi couple - The wife, an ever worrying mother of two daughters and her husband, who'd rather take life as it comes. One day, the wife decides that starting a business on their own is the only way to ensure enough money to pay for her daughter's wedding. Her husband prepares her by presenting her with hypothetical, borderline silly, scenarios, she is likely to come across during the course of running the business. What are her business plans? Is she dissuaded from her grand scheme of things by her husband? Watch Miya Biwi ke Mantakaan. For passes: 9290013166

Improv theater is another name for improvisational theater. The show is not rehearsed and does not follow a script. Everything in the performance is made up on the spot, depending on audience's suggestions.

Improv night will be a similar interactive night of theater that is improvised on the spot.

For passes: 9966903264/ 9052692392

Dear People of a Higher Expression:

Please join in for a experiential voyage via a interactive meeting with Alok Ulfat for a acting workshop that scales voice, intuitive movement, speech, expression, writing and painting even to a path breaking journey in bringing together the dimensions within ourselves in a two day workshop.

Sessions: April 9th and 10th only from 10am to 1pm.

Fee: 100 per day. walk in registration.
for more details: Seema Azharuddin, Kartaal Productions -- 9949001604.

A exclusive event designed for short films, to show case some serious work in the short films category. With this event the studio wants to create an eco system for filmmakers to co exist & evolve, this is forum will address practical pain points of filmmaker like production (including pre & post), casting & other important issues. After the entire list of movies is screened we have a 30-45 min focused discussion moderated by the studio to find ans to some of the current problem of film making. A bi-monthly event held to promote short films; we call for short films entries to be sent to us. We accept films below 45 mins in this type. Your work can be submitted to Octopus Studios, the set of independent curator will go through the films & select a set of films. We screen selected short films to an elite audience who are short film enthusiasts. We introduce the filmmakers as well cast & crew to the audience. The entire event is open & free of cost, it’s also held at place which has actually inspired the idea - Lamaakan-An Open Cultural Space. Entry - Free