Lamakaan

Performing Classical Dance (Bharatnatyam)

Three guys awaiting their death sentence, living the last few hours of their lives. Come witness them reminisce their joy, their guilt and their redemption.

Natyaved presents
'PARDONED'
Writer: Suryasnata Tripathy
Director: Thakur Honey Singh

Three guys awaiting their death sentence, living the last few hours of their lives. Come witness them reminisce their joy, their guilt and their redemption.

Natyaved presents
'PARDONED'
Writer: Suryasnata Tripathy
Director: Thakur Honey Singh

Performance and talk by Irshad Panjatan an Indian actor and veteran mime artist, based in Berlin.

Irshad Panjatan (born 7 September 1931) is an Indian actor and veteran mime artist, based in Berlin, who introduced the art form to India during the 1960s. He started his career as stage actor, acted in few Bollywood films, and later received acclaim as mime artist. He toured through West-Asian and European countries in 1971, which led him to Berlin, where he settled down. Over the years he has even acted in a few Hollywood and German films, Manitou's Shoe (2001), Free Rainer (2007), God is No Soprano (2003) and Iron Sky (2012).

Celebration of Urdu poetry
Intercollegiate Baitbazi

Dr. Rafiya Saleem
Assistant professor department of Urdu, University of Hyderabad.

Dr. Humera Sayeed
Assistant professor, GDC Women, Sangareddy

As the winter sets in Hyderabad, Lamakaan brings to you some of the finest films of Martin Scorsese as he also celebrates his 80th birthday.

Martin Charles Scorsese, born (November 17, 1942) is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, and actor. He receives many accolades, including an Academy Award, three Primetime Emmy Awards, a Grammy Award, four British Academy Film Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, and two Directors Guild of America Awards. Scorsese has received various honors, including the AFI Life Achievement Award in 1997, the Kennedy Center Honor in 2007, and the BAFTA Fellowship in 2012. Five of his films have been inducted into the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant."

Scorsese received an MA from New York University's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development in 1968. His directorial debut, Who's That Knocking at My Door (1967), was accepted into the Chicago Film Festival. In the 1970s and 1980s, Scorsese emerged as one of the major figures of the New Hollywood era. Scorsese's films, much influenced by his Italian-American background and upbringing in New York City, center on macho-posturing insecure men and explore crime, machismo, nihilism, and Catholic concepts of guilt and redemption. His trademark styles include extensive use of slow motion and freeze frames, graphic depictions of extreme violence, and liberal use of profanity.

His 1973 crime film Mean Streets, dealing with machismo and violence, and exploring Catholic concepts of guilt and redemption, was a blueprint for his filmmaking styles. Scorsese won the Palme d'Or at Cannes with his 1976 psychological thriller Taxi Driver, which starred Robert De Niro, who became associated with Scorsese through eight more films, including New York, New York (1977), Raging Bull (1980), The King of Comedy (1982), Goodfellas (1990), and Casino (1995). In the 2000s and 2010s, Scorsese garnered critical acclaim and box-office success with a series of collaborations with Leonardo DiCaprio. These films include Gangs of New York (2002), The Aviator (2004), The Departed (2006), Shutter Island (2010), and The Wolf of Wall Street (2013). Returning to his familiar territory of crime films, Scorsese collaborated with De Niro again on The Irishman (2019). Scorsese's other film work includes the black comedy After Hours (1985), the romantic drama The Age of Innocence (1993), the children's adventure drama Hugo (2011), and the religious epics The Last Temptation of Christ (1988), Kundun (1997) and Silence (2016).

In addition to the film, Scorsese has directed episodes for some television series, including Boardwalk Empire (2011–2015), Vinyl (2016), the documentaries Public Speaking (2010), and Pretend It's a City (2021). He is also known for several rock music documentaries, including The Last Waltz (1978), No Direction Home (2005), Shine a Light (2008), and George Harrison: Living in the Material World (2011). An advocate for film preservation and restoration, he founded three nonprofit organizations: the Film Foundation in 1990, the World Cinema Foundation in 2007, and the African Film Heritage Project in 2017.

Film Title: Goodfellas |1990 | 143 minutes | English

About the film: Goodfellas (stylized GoodFellas) is a 1990 American biographical crime film directed by Martin Scorsese, written by Nicholas Pileggi and Scorsese, and produced by Irwin Winkler. It is a film adaptation of the 1985 nonfiction book Wiseguy by Pileggi. Starring Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci, Lorraine Bracco and Paul Sorvino, the film narrates the rise and fall of mob associate Henry Hill and his friends and family from 1955 to 1980.

Scorsese initially titled the film Wise Guy and postponed making it; he and Pileggi later changed the title to Goodfellas. To prepare for their roles in the film, De Niro, Pesci and Liotta often spoke with Pileggi, who shared research material left over from writing the book. According to Pesci, improvisation and ad-libbing came out of rehearsals wherein Scorsese gave the actors freedom to do whatever they wanted. The director made transcripts of these sessions, took the lines he liked most and put them into a revised script, which the cast worked from during principal photography.

Goodfellas premiered at the 47th Venice International Film Festival on September 9, 1990, where Scorsese was awarded with Silver Lion for Best Director, and was released in the United States on September 19, 1990, by Warner Bros. The film was made on a budget of $25 million, and grossed $47 million. Goodfellas received widespread critical acclaim upon release: the critical consensus on Rotten Tomatoes calls it "arguably the high point of Martin Scorsese's career". The film was nominated for six Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director, with Pesci winning for Best Supporting Actor. The film won five awards from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, including Best Film and Best Director. Additionally, Goodfellas was named the year's best film by various critics' groups.

Goodfellas is widely regarded as one of the greatest films ever made, particularly in the gangster genre. In 2000, it was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry by the United States Library of Congress. Its content and style have been emulated in numerous other films and television series.

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Lamakaan invites you to the special screening of GHODE KO JALEBI KHILANE LE JA RIYA HOON film and followed by a discussion with the filmmaker, Anamika Haksar, and the protagonist, Ravindra Sahu, K.

Film Title: GHODE KO JALEBI KHILANE LE JA RIYA HOON Hindi/Urdu | 2018 | 121 minutes | Subtitled in English


Synopsis: Ghode Ko Jalebi Khilane Le Ja Riya Hoon (Taking the horse to eat Jalebis) is a 2018 Indian film by Gutterati Productions.

This film is a result of seven years of documentation of the lives of street people of Old Delhi – beggars, pickpockets, loaders, small-scale factory workers, street singers, street vendors, etc. Anamika Haksar directed the film.

The film is a "masterpiece of contemporary Indian cinema" by Kinoscope. It has won international and national awards and has been screened at numerous film festivals.

Ghode Ko Jalebi Khilane Le Ja Riya Hoon first premiered at the Mumbai Academy of the Moving Image (MAMI) festival in 2018. It was also the only film selected for the Sundance New Frontier Festival in 2019.

Anamika Haksar’s debut feature film, Ghode Ko Jalebi Khilane Le Ja Riya Hoon, which released in selected theatres on 10 June 2022. Two years after, it was selected to be screened in The New Frontiers section of the Sundance Film Festival, the only Indian film in that category.

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Your donations are welcome. It helps independent directors like Anamika Haskar to make more films.

Title: 1st Sridhar Lecture

Pegasus: The Most Dangerous Spyware Known to Humankind

This a conversation to celebrate the life of Sridhar Potlachervoo, a brilliant and loving human among us for a mere 42 years.

Paranjoy Guha Thakurta in conversation with Ashhar Farhan


About the title: Named after a mythical winged horse from Greek mythology, Pegasus is the name of the world’s most potent cyberweapon. Developed by the privately owned Israeli NSO Group, the spyware was intended for use by government law-enforcing agencies. However, the software has been widely misused in several countries worldwide to spy on politicians, including heads of government, journalists, lawyers, government officials, dissidents, and human rights activists. In July 2021, “The Pegasus Project” – comprising Amnesty International, and Forbidden Stories, a Paris-based international non-government organization, working in partnership with over 80 journalists from 17 organizations in ten countries – documented how the spyware was misused to target opponents of ruling regimes mainly. Whereas several governments are investigating how the cyberweapon was wrongfully deployed, the government of India has chosen to confirm neither nor deny whether any of its agencies purchased or used Pegasus. As a person whose mobile phone was allegedly “compromised” by the spyware and was among those who petitioned the Supreme Court of India in this regard, Paranjoy Guha Thakurta is uniquely placed to talk about what is arguably the most dangerous software known to humankind so far.


About Paranjoy Guha Thakurta: PARANJOY GUHA THAKURTA’s professional career started in June 1977 as a print journalist. His work experience, spanning four and a half decades, cuts across different mass media: the written word, the spoken word, and the audio-visual medium—printed publications and websites, radio and podcasts, television and documentary cinema. He is a writer, speaker, anchor, interviewer, teacher, analyst/commentator, publisher, producer, director, and consultant. Much of his work is in English, Bengali (his mother tongue), and Hindi. He has published and been published in other languages as well. His main areas of interest are the working of the political economy and the media in India and the world, on which he has authored/co-authored seven books, published more than 24 books, directed/produced more than 20 long documentary films, and hundreds of short films/videos, including two music videos. In particular, he examines the allocation and pricing of natural resources, the working of crony capitalism and oligarchies, and mass communications in India. He teaches and speaks on these subjects to students and general audiences and trains aspiring—and working—media professionals. As a visiting faculty, he has taught a course on media and society at the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad for the last 18 years. He frequently participates in and organizes seminars/conferences. He is a regular contributor to publications and websites. He is featured on television channels and radio programs as an anchor and analyst/commentator. He has been and remains a consultant with the NewsClick portal.


About Ashhar Farhan: Ashhar Farhan, the founder of Lamakaan and a long-time radio ham, is in an elite company after being recognized for popularising the open-source Bit-X semi-kits.


About Sridhar Lecture: Sridhar Potlachervoo Lived amongst us briefly between 1979 and 2022. For more than half of that period, he was wheelchair-bound with a debilitating inflammatory disease called ankylosing spondylitis. During this time, he wrote some brilliant code, recited remarkably poignant poetry, organized charity to support athletes from poor families, and paid for the education of scores of young adults.


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The documentary was made by All India Forum for Right to Education after it's country-wide campaign of Shiksha Sangharsh Yatra against commercialisation and communalisation of education in India. It raises some of the fundamental questions before the education system of the country. Gathering the rich experiences and legacies of the historical social reform movements and the struggles for freedom of the country it builds a case for equitable and emancipatory education system in the country.

As the winter sets in Hyderabad, Lamakaan brings to you some of the finest films of Martin Scorsese as he also celebrates his 80th birthday.

Martin Charles Scorsese, born (November 17, 1942) is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, and actor. He receives many accolades, including an Academy Award, three Primetime Emmy Awards, a Grammy Award, four British Academy Film Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, and two Directors Guild of America Awards. Scorsese has received various honors, including the AFI Life Achievement Award in 1997, the Kennedy Center Honor in 2007, and the BAFTA Fellowship in 2012. Five of his films have been inducted into the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant."

Scorsese received an MA from New York University's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development in 1968. His directorial debut, Who's That Knocking at My Door (1967), was accepted into the Chicago Film Festival. In the 1970s and 1980s, Scorsese emerged as one of the major figures of the New Hollywood era. Scorsese's films, much influenced by his Italian-American background and upbringing in New York City, center on macho-posturing insecure men and explore crime, machismo, nihilism, and Catholic concepts of guilt and redemption. His trademark styles include extensive use of slow motion and freeze frames, graphic depictions of extreme violence, and liberal use of profanity.

His 1973 crime film Mean Streets, dealing with machismo and violence, and exploring Catholic concepts of guilt and redemption, was a blueprint for his filmmaking styles. Scorsese won the Palme d'Or at Cannes with his 1976 psychological thriller Taxi Driver, which starred Robert De Niro, who became associated with Scorsese through eight more films, including New York, New York (1977), Raging Bull (1980), The King of Comedy (1982), Goodfellas (1990), and Casino (1995). In the 2000s and 2010s, Scorsese garnered critical acclaim and box-office success with a series of collaborations with Leonardo DiCaprio. These films include Gangs of New York (2002), The Aviator (2004), The Departed (2006), Shutter Island (2010), and The Wolf of Wall Street (2013). Returning to his familiar territory of crime films, Scorsese collaborated with De Niro again on The Irishman (2019). Scorsese's other film work includes the black comedy After Hours (1985), the romantic drama The Age of Innocence (1993), the children's adventure drama Hugo (2011), and the religious epics The Last Temptation of Christ (1988), Kundun (1997) and Silence (2016).

In addition to the film, Scorsese has directed episodes for some television series, including Boardwalk Empire (2011–2015), Vinyl (2016), the documentaries Public Speaking (2010), and Pretend It's a City (2021). He is also known for several rock music documentaries, including The Last Waltz (1978), No Direction Home (2005), Shine a Light (2008), and George Harrison: Living in the Material World (2011). An advocate for film preservation and restoration, he founded three nonprofit organizations: the Film Foundation in 1990, the World Cinema Foundation in 2007, and the African Film Heritage Project in 2017.

Film Title: The Age of Innocence | 1993 | 139 minutes | English

About the film: The Age of Innocence is a 1993 American historical romantic drama film directed by Martin Scorsese. The screenplay, an adaptation of the 1920 novel The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton, was written by Scorsese and Jay Cocks. The film stars Daniel Day-Lewis, Michelle Pfeiffer, Winona Ryder and Miriam Margolyes, and was released by Columbia Pictures. The film recounts the courtship and marriage of Newland Archer (Day-Lewis), a wealthy New York society attorney, to May Welland (Ryder); Archer then encounters and legally represents Countess Olenska (Pfeiffer) prior to unexpected romantic entanglements.

The Age of Innocence was released theatrically on October 1, 1993, by Columbia Pictures. It received critical acclaim, winning the Academy Award for Best Costume Design, and being nominated for Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Winona Ryder), Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Original Score, and Best Art Direction. Miriam Margolyes won the Best Supporting Actress BAFTA in 1994. The film grossed $68 million against a $34 million budget. Scorsese dedicated the film to his father, Luciano Charles Scorsese, who had died the month before the film was released. Luciano and his wife, Catherine Scorsese, had small cameo appearances in the film.

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The poverty is the root of all evils. This movie traces out the root of the poverty. People blame corrupt rulers & the Government but, in fact, people themselves are responsible. No Party or Government forces anyone on gun-point to commit certain crimes but people do it by their consent in the name of the system and, consequently, get morally and financially bankrupted.
The movie is written by Dr. Aleem Khan Falaki, Directed by Syed Khadeer and starred by Saleem Pheku, Abdul Razzaq and Bhavna etc

Story of a woman who comes from the lowest strata in society. The play talks about plight of women in an emotional, nostalgic and humourous tone.

Breathe Easy- Towards and Inclusive Workplace
The session will help participants understand "labels" and find ways to
Organizations today are investing time and effort to build a culture of diversity, equity, and inclusion and thereby create a sense of belonging amongst all stakeholders.

One crucial detractor in this process is “labels”. We bring you a session to sensitize stakeholders on the consequence of using labels, for oneself and others and the harm caused to the overall ecosystem.

The session will inspire participants to appreciate the limiting nature of labels and find ways to overcome them.

Story of a woman who comes from the lowest strata in society. The play talks about plight of women in an emotional, nostalgic and humourous tone.

Shudrka Hyderabad presents Bengali play “EBAR DHORMORAJYO” (Comes Now Kingdom of Justice!) in which Gandhari and Kunti of Mahabharata meet on the last day of Kurukshetra war. If there is one issue that occurs again and again in this play, it is “Dharma”. It is perhaps the most debated and yet perhaps the most compromised. The play unhinges classical interpretation of the epic, while at the same time using the incidents in the epic to enunciate moral and ethical concerns and elaborate on the meanings of “Dharma” in the current context.

As the winter sets in Hyderabad, Lamakaan brings to you some of the finest films of Martin Scorsese as he also celebrates his 80th birthday.

Martin Charles Scorsese, born (November 17, 1942) is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, and actor. He receives many accolades, including an Academy Award, three Primetime Emmy Awards, a Grammy Award, four British Academy Film Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, and two Directors Guild of America Awards. Scorsese has received various honors, including the AFI Life Achievement Award in 1997, the Kennedy Center Honor in 2007, and the BAFTA Fellowship in 2012. Five of his films have been inducted into the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant."

Scorsese received an MA from New York University's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development in 1968. His directorial debut, Who's That Knocking at My Door (1967), was accepted into the Chicago Film Festival. In the 1970s and 1980s, Scorsese emerged as one of the major figures of the New Hollywood era. Scorsese's films, much influenced by his Italian-American background and upbringing in New York City, center on macho-posturing insecure men and explore crime, machismo, nihilism, and Catholic concepts of guilt and redemption. His trademark styles include extensive use of slow motion and freeze frames, graphic depictions of extreme violence, and liberal use of profanity.

His 1973 crime film Mean Streets, dealing with machismo and violence, and exploring Catholic concepts of guilt and redemption, was a blueprint for his filmmaking styles. Scorsese won the Palme d'Or at Cannes with his 1976 psychological thriller Taxi Driver, which starred Robert De Niro, who became associated with Scorsese through eight more films, including New York, New York (1977), Raging Bull (1980), The King of Comedy (1982), Goodfellas (1990), and Casino (1995). In the 2000s and 2010s, Scorsese garnered critical acclaim and box-office success with a series of collaborations with Leonardo DiCaprio. These films include Gangs of New York (2002), The Aviator (2004), The Departed (2006), Shutter Island (2010), and The Wolf of Wall Street (2013). Returning to his familiar territory of crime films, Scorsese collaborated with De Niro again on The Irishman (2019). Scorsese's other film work includes the black comedy After Hours (1985), the romantic drama The Age of Innocence (1993), the children's adventure drama Hugo (2011), and the religious epics The Last Temptation of Christ (1988), Kundun (1997) and Silence (2016).

In addition to the film, Scorsese has directed episodes for some television series, including Boardwalk Empire (2011–2015), Vinyl (2016), the documentaries Public Speaking (2010), and Pretend It's a City (2021). He is also known for several rock music documentaries, including The Last Waltz (1978), No Direction Home (2005), Shine a Light (2008), and George Harrison: Living in the Material World (2011). An advocate for film preservation and restoration, he founded three nonprofit organizations: the Film Foundation in 1990, the World Cinema Foundation in 2007, and the African Film Heritage Project in 2017.

Film Title: The Departed |2006 | 151 minutes | English

About the film: The Departed is a 2006 American epic crime thriller film directed by Martin Scorsese and written by William Monahan.[5] It is both a remake of the 2002 Hong Kong film Infernal Affairs and also loosely based on the real-life Boston Winter Hill Gang; the character Colin Sullivan is based on the corrupt FBI agent John Connolly, while the character Frank Costello is based on Irish-American gangster Whitey Bulger. The film stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Jack Nicholson, and Mark Wahlberg, with Martin Sheen, Ray Winstone, Vera Farmiga, and Alec Baldwin in supporting roles.

The film takes place in Boston. Irish Mob boss Frank Costello (Nicholson) plants Colin Sullivan (Damon) as a spy within the Massachusetts State Police; simultaneously, the police assign undercover state trooper Billy Costigan (DiCaprio) to infiltrate Costello's crew. When both sides realize the situation, Sullivan and Costigan each attempt to discover the other's identity before they are found out.

The Departed was a critical and commercial success, and won several accolades, including four Oscars at the 79th Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Film Editing. It became Scorsese's first and, to date, only win for Best Director; Wahlberg was also nominated for Best Supporting Actor. The film also received six nominations at the 64th Golden Globe Awards, six nominations at the 60th British Academy Film Awards, and two nominations at the 13th Screen Actors Guild Awards. DiCaprio was nominated for Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama (also nominated that year in the same category for Blood Diamond), BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role, and Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role for his performance.

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Title: Civic Activism on Urban Environmental Issues with Prof. Thomas Tufte

About the event: There has been increasing consciousness about urban environmental issues in Hyderabad, such as declining rockscapes, water bodies, tree cover, etc. Activist groups have been able to engage in some amount of citizen mobilization and civic activism, many involving young people. These get manifested in online petitions, public rallies, awareness walks, talks, and film screenings. A wide range of communication processes and tools is evident in these movements, including emails, WhatsApp, and Telegram groups, circulation of videos and photographs on social media, and other digital techniques such as geo-tagging threatened natural resources. This interaction is organized to exchange information and share experiences among groups and individuals committed to a healthier, more environmentally conscious city.

ALL URBAN ENVIRONMENT ENTHUSIASTS ARE WELCOME!!!

Prof. Thomas Tufte will be a guest participant at this event. Prof. Tufte is an internationally renowned scholar of communication for social change, with active research interests in social movements, protests, and other modes of civic engagement. He is the Director of the Institute for Media and Creative Industries at Loughborough University, London. Tufte began his work life working 6 years in international development cooperation (first in UNESCO in Paris, then in Danchurchaid, a large Danish NGO, and finally, with the United Nations Development Program’s office in Asuncion, Paraguay. He has worked in and collaborated with researchers and organisations in over 30 countries, including Brazil, South Africa, Kenya, Mozambique, Malawi, Nigeria, Honduras, Nicaragua, Colombia and Chile. He is the author of several books, including Communication & Social Change: A Citizen Perspective, Freire and the Perseverance of Hope, and The Handbook of Development Communication and Social Change. Prof. Tufte is keenly interested in listening to our experiences here in Hyderabad and will try to share experiences from other cities in the Global South that he is familiar with.

EWS: The End of Inclusive Democracy?
Reservations for the excluded majority in India began with SC/STs, followed by OBCs. They enabled
increasing numbers of Bahujans to enter public institutions, despite strident abusive opposition. Now
EWS, the counter-revolution, is here. Will it end all other quotas? This book is a powerful collection of
views and analyses of Bahujan political leaders, lawyers, researchers, writers, and activists like: Dr. Suresh
Mane, Dr. Thol. Thirumavalavan, Prof N Sukumar, Dr. Sthabir Khora, Dr. Ayaz Ahmad, Dr. Yogesh Pratap
Singh, James Michael, Bobby Kunhu, Nidhin Donald, Rajanikanta Gochhayat, Omprakash Mahato,
Jitendra Suna, Sundeep Pattern, Naaz Khair, Pradeep Dhobley, Abhishek Juneja, Naren Bedside (Kuffir):
the book has its articulations in the form of articles, papers, interviews, art, etc.
‘EWS: The Quota To End All Quotas’ by the Ambedkar Age Collective
This book was released at Lamakaan (and other places, cities) over a year before the recent SC judgment
on EWS. This discussion shall engage with the new debates around the SC Judgment. Speakers: Dr
Karthik Navayan Bathula (human rights lawyer), Kuffir (Editor, Round Table India), and Sundeep Pattern
(Editor, Round Table India).

All are welcome!

Organising a discussion on hiring bias employment for Muslim women in entry level roles ruha shadab CEO ledby foundation will be presenting her report

Has India truly accepted gender equality ?

Transgender has been an integral part of Indian history. Transgender has been mentioned in Indian mythology, myths, Ramayana, Mahabharata etc. Who does not know the story of Shakuni in Mahabharata? It is also a well-known fact about Arjuna that he had to lose his masculinity for some time due to the curse of a woman. But as far as equal rights of Transgender are concerned, there is no such mention in Modern Indian history till the recent past. Transgender is still taboo, but changing times have also witnessed various other developments. Now we hear much news through News Paper and Television Channels that Transgender is fighting for an election. Even at the municipal level, Transgender is also elected. It’s a good sign for their future, but are they being accepted in society in the same way as other citizens?

Through this panel discussion by eminent speakers we tend to spread awareness and address issues or any questions faced by the audience related to other gender

This event is to discuss various issues within the Trans community in Hyderabad. Motivate and empower the Trans community with certain skills to become an entrepreneur.

Surge Impact Foundation invites interested citizens and members from non-profit and civil society organisations to participate in a roundtable event commemorating the Constitution Day 2022. At this crucial juncture in our country’s democratic history, where engaging in a more vigorous constitutional discourse and furthering constitutional values is needed more than ever to preserve democratic ideals and the rule of law, this event would provide a great opportunity to come together, pause and reflect on the present-day relevance of our constitution, and imagine ways of embedding its spirit in our local and regional contexts. The aim of this event is to exchange ideas and serve as the basis for creating a network of individuals/organisations championing the advancement of constitutional values and culture in the state of Telangana.

1.A song “Hamein Chahieye Ulfath” is composed by a young pianist and singer Nirvan Athreya and co-created with the singers from Shaheen Women Resource and Welfare Association. Nirvan Athreya is a pianist and composer from Hyderabad, India. He collaborates with singers and artists from across India and around the world. He also works as an educator and film composer. In 2016 he was awarded a scholarship to study at Berklee College of Music where he graduated in Contrmporary writing and production. The music composer and singer Nirvan will perform a song, conceptualised and co-created with the singers from Shaheen.

2.The Telugu poet Joopaka Subhadra who is a powerful Dalit poet and writer, who has written poems and short stories that bring out the lives and conditions of the Dalits, and more specifically Dalit women. Many of her stories are drawn from her own experiences. This is what makes her stories so compelling, convincing and disturbing.She will present her poems with translations.

3.Adivasi women will present their song. The Jai Jangubai Adivasi Mahila Sangham from Komram Bhim Asifabad, Telangana will present a Gond song on their lives and struggles as Adivasi women.

4.Jameela Nishat will read her poetry and Uma Damodar will read the translations into English..

5.Yakshi Resource and Creative Centre will present a play directed by Madhusudhan Nadempalli. "Iddi Inthena ?" or ‘Is that it ?’- is a collaborative Forum theatre production by Yakshi and the Kudali Learning Centre, Telangana. It emerged from a ‘Theatre of the Oppressed’ workshop facilitated by Madhu, with Dalit, Bahujan and Muslim youth and elders from the Satya Shodhaka Yuvajan Sangham in Sangareddy district, Telangana, and deals with the lived realities of caste and patriarchal oppression.

As the winter sets in Hyderabad, Lamakaan brings to you some of the finest films of Martin Scorsese as he also celebrates his 80th birthday.

Martin Charles Scorsese, born (November 17, 1942) is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, and actor. He receives many accolades, including an Academy Award, three Primetime Emmy Awards, a Grammy Award, four British Academy Film Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, and two Directors Guild of America Awards. Scorsese has received various honors, including the AFI Life Achievement Award in 1997, the Kennedy Center Honor in 2007, and the BAFTA Fellowship in 2012. Five of his films have been inducted into the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant."

Scorsese received an MA from New York University's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development in 1968. His directorial debut, Who's That Knocking at My Door (1967), was accepted into the Chicago Film Festival. In the 1970s and 1980s, Scorsese emerged as one of the major figures of the New Hollywood era. Scorsese's films, much influenced by his Italian-American background and upbringing in New York City, center on macho-posturing insecure men and explore crime, machismo, nihilism, and Catholic concepts of guilt and redemption. His trademark styles include extensive use of slow motion and freeze frames, graphic depictions of extreme violence, and liberal use of profanity.

His 1973 crime film Mean Streets, dealing with machismo and violence, and exploring Catholic concepts of guilt and redemption, was a blueprint for his filmmaking styles. Scorsese won the Palme d'Or at Cannes with his 1976 psychological thriller Taxi Driver, which starred Robert De Niro, who became associated with Scorsese through eight more films, including New York, New York (1977), Raging Bull (1980), The King of Comedy (1982), Goodfellas (1990), and Casino (1995). In the 2000s and 2010s, Scorsese garnered critical acclaim and box-office success with a series of collaborations with Leonardo DiCaprio. These films include Gangs of New York (2002), The Aviator (2004), The Departed (2006), Shutter Island (2010), and The Wolf of Wall Street (2013). Returning to his familiar territory of crime films, Scorsese collaborated with De Niro again on The Irishman (2019). Scorsese's other film work includes the black comedy After Hours (1985), the romantic drama The Age of Innocence (1993), the children's adventure drama Hugo (2011), and the religious epics The Last Temptation of Christ (1988), Kundun (1997) and Silence (2016).

In addition to the film, Scorsese has directed episodes for some television series, including Boardwalk Empire (2011–2015), Vinyl (2016), the documentaries Public Speaking (2010), and Pretend It's a City (2021). He is also known for several rock music documentaries, including The Last Waltz (1978), No Direction Home (2005), Shine a Light (2008), and George Harrison: Living in the Material World (2011). An advocate for film preservation and restoration, he founded three nonprofit organizations: the Film Foundation in 1990, the World Cinema Foundation in 2007, and the African Film Heritage Project in 2017.

Film Title: Silence | 2016 | 161 minutes | English

About the film: Silence is a 2016 epic historical drama film directed by Martin Scorsese and with a screenplay by Jay Cocks and Scorsese, based on the 1966 novel of the same name by Shūsaku Endō. The film stars Andrew Garfield, Adam Driver, Liam Neeson, Tadanobu Asano, and Ciarán Hinds. The plot follows two 17th-century Jesuit priests who travel from Portugal to Edo-era Japan via Macau to locate their missing mentor and spread Catholic Christianity. The story is set in a time when it was common for the faith's Japanese adherents to hide from the persecution that resulted from the suppression of Christianity in Japan after the Shimabara Rebellion (1637–1638) against the Tokugawa shogunate. These are now called the kakure kirishitan, or "hidden Christians". It is the second filmed adaptation of Endō's novel, following a 1971 film of the same name.



SCREENING FOLLOWED BY DISCUSSION!

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Unemployed.

Jobless,

Angst-ridden.

Sarcastic.

And gay!
Just imagine, he is locked in a luxurious bathroom. And then, flushes down several humorous tales in his confinement, however, what does he have to genuinely share with us?

Dear Friend,
Sifar invites you to a monologue
The Wisest Fool on Earth
Written by R Raj Rao | Enacted by Feroze
So, be there at 8 PM sharp to catch "The Wisest Fool on Earth". Despite being locked up in a bathroom, he still gives a crap about being wanted! Whether this belief stays, or withers away to repeat history, is the twist that's kept for the end.
But, how in the world did he end up in the loo and what hopes does he have in store (of “coming out”)?

Come, and witness a tale of failure, frustration, freedom and fulfillment showered with humor.

Samahaara Workshop Productions
presents

Sunkara Satyanarayana &
Vasireddy Bhaskar Rao's
"MUNDADUGU"
(Telugu Play)

Directed by Rathna Shekar

Bookings at in.bookmyshow.com

Set in a village in Andhra Pradesh, Mundadugu is a play written in the year 1945 by the duo Vasireddy Bhaskar Rao and Sunkara Satyanarayana. This play is about the farmers who were oppressed and exploited by a zamindar, and how the farmers form an association and revolt against the atrocities of the zamindar.
Land revenue was one of the major sources of income for Britishers in India. The Zamindari system was one of the land tenure systems introduced in 1793, and the system was most prevalent in West Bengal, Bihar, Odisha, UP, Andhra Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh.

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Samahaara Workshop Productions
presents

Sunkara Satyanarayana &
Vasireddy Bhaskar Rao's
"MUNDADUGU"
(Telugu Play)

Directed by Rathna Shekar

Bookings at in.bookmyshow.com

Set in a village in Andhra Pradesh, Mundadugu is a play written in the year 1945 by the duo Vasireddy Bhaskar Rao and Sunkara Satyanarayana. This play is about the farmers who were oppressed and exploited by a zamindar, and how the farmers form an association and revolt against the atrocities of the zamindar.
Land revenue was one of the major sources of income for Britishers in India. The Zamindari system was one of the land tenure systems introduced in 1793, and the system was most prevalent in West Bengal, Bihar, Odisha, UP, Andhra Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh.