Lamakaan

Performing Classical Dance (Bharatnatyam)

This is a Support Meeting for the LGBTQIA+ community in Hyderabad.

"Yaatri gan Kripya dhyan dein!

Agyatpuram ki taraf jaane waali train no XYXX ‘Trans-Kamala Express’ platform no 2024 par jald hi aane waali hai. Aapse Agrah hai ki apne samaan ka dhyaan rakhein aur platform par hi baithe rahein

Passengers please pay attention! The train to Agyatpuram, XYXX ‘Trans-Kamala Express’ is soon going to arrive at platform No. 2024. You are requested to please take care of your belonginings and please remain seated at the platform."

Oh you too have come! Yes, please join me. Hum tho kab se baithe huye hain yahan pe. Sorry, angrezi mein- I have been waiting over here god knows since when. This mardoot train doesn’t arrive only. What train are you here for? Trans-Twitter express? Or Trans-hot-shot-start-up express? Ki Trans-nirbharta express?

Arre, I know all the trains that pass through this station, haan! You see, waiting is like second skin to me- there is so much you absorb while waiting! Have you also waited for something for a long time- not knowing when to abandon that wait? weight? When to just be? or when to just run away from it all and do something else altogether- may be as a distraction? May be as a life-long thing?

Who knows? Sab ka apna kissa hai…Everyone has a story to tell…nahin ji?

So come! and don’t worry, this will not be a heavy dard bhari daastan - some meetha dard only. Come!

Book tickets here:
Tickets at: https://rzp.io/l/Avataridevi

Topic: Growing Communalisation and Violence in India: Responses of Civil Society in Different Cities Conversation with Mr. Suresh Khairnar - Veteran Peace Activist


5th February 2023: 3.30 pm to 5.30 pm
Lamakaan- Road No. 6 Banjara Hills, Hyderabad
Organized by COVA Peace Network
Contact: 87128 06553


DR. SURESH KHAIRNAR is a founder member of NAPM, CNDP, and PUCL and is associated with many Gandhian and peace organizations in India and South Asia.
Engaged in preventing communal violence and promoting peace for over 35 years, he helped establish 115 Mohalla Committees in Bhagalpur that remain functional and ensure peace to this day.
Dr. Khairnar enquired into over 60 communal and caste incidences and Human Rights violations in India and Abroad.


*Notable investigations were for Bhagalpur, Mumbai, Muzaffar Nagar, and Gujarat Communal Riots; Batla House incidence, Malegaon Bomb Blast, 26/11Mumbai Terror Attack, Enquiry of Kashmiri Pandits in different camps in Jammu Region and Mecca Masjid Bomb Blasts.

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Ballet performances by children ages 4-12

BREAKING BARRIERS: THE STORY OF A DALIT CHIEF SECRETARY
by KAKI MADHAVA RAO (IAS Retd)

BOOK DISCUSSION

Speakers:

Sujatha Surepally
Professor & Head, Dept of Sociology, Satavahana University

Rammanohar Reddy, Editor, The India Forum

K.Y. Ratnam, Associate Professor, Dept of Political Science, University of Hyderabad

Moderated by:
Kalpana Kannabiran, Distinguished Professor, Council for Social Development, New Delhi

February is more than the love month. It is the month to remember and celebrate one of the founders of French New Wave Cinema, Francois Truffaut.

About: Francois Truffaut: François Roland Truffaut 6 February 1932 – 21 October 1984) was a French film director, screenwriter, producer, actor, and film critic. He is widely regarded as one of the founders of the French New Wave. After more than 25 years of career, he remains an icon of the French film industry, having worked on over 25 films.

Truffaut's film The 400 Blows (1959) is a defining film of the French New Wave movement and has four sequels, Antoine et Colette (1962), Stolen Kisses (1968), Bed and Board (1970), and Love on the Run (1979). Truffaut's 1973 film Day for Night earned him critical acclaim and several awards, including the BAFTA Award for Best Film and the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. His other notable films include Shoot the Piano Player (1960), Jules and Jim (1962), The Soft Skin (1964), The Wild Child (1970), Two English Girls (1971), The Last Metro (1980), and The Woman Next Door (1981). He is also known for his supporting role in Steven Spielberg's science fiction film Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977).

Truffaut also wrote the notable book Hitchcock/Truffaut (1966), which detailed his interviews with the film director Alfred Hitchcock during the 1960s.

Film Title: The Soft Skin | 1964 | 113 minutes | French language subtitled in English |

The Soft Skin (French: La peau douce) is a 1964 French-Portuguese romantic drama film directed by François Truffaut and starring Jean Desailly, Françoise Dorléac, and Nelly Benedetti. Written by Truffaut and Jean-Louis Richard, the film is about a successful married publisher and lecturer who meets a beautiful air hostess with whom he has a love affair. The film was shot on location in Paris, Reims, and Lisbon, and several scenes were filmed at Paris-Orly Airport. At the 1964 Cannes Film Festival, the film was nominated for the Palme d'Or. Despite Truffaut's recent success with Jules and Jim and The 400 Blows, The Soft Skin did not do well at the box office

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Legendary director K Vishwanath breathed his last at his residence in Hyderabad on 2nd February 2023.

Lamakaan pays rich homage to the doyen of Telugu cinema by recollecting his great works and screening one of his critically acclaimed movies.


Kasinadhuni Viswanath (19 February 1930 – 2 February 2023) was an Indian film director, screenwriter, and actor, One of the most prolific filmmakers of Telugu cinema, he received international recognition for his works and is known for blending parallel cinema with mainstream commercial cinema. He was honored with the "Prize of the Public" at the "Besançon Film Festival of France" in 1981.

After serving as an assistant director for several years, Viswanath debuted as a director in 1965 with “Aatma Gowravam.” A glittering career in the Telugu-language film industry followed with highlights including “Kalam Marindi” (1972), “Sarada” (1973), “O Seeta Katha” (1974), “Jeevana Jyoti” (1975), “Siri Siri Muvva” (1976), “Sankarabharanam” (1980), “Saptapadi” (1981), “Sagara Sangamam” (1983), “Swathi Muthyam” (1986), “Sirivennela” (1986), “Swayam Krushi” (1987) and “Aapadbandhavudu” (1992).

Viswanath also enjoyed a career in the Hindi-language film industry with several hit films including “Sargam” (1979), “Kaamchor” (1982), “Shubh Kaamna” (1983), “Jaag Utha Insan” (1984), “Sur Sangam” (1985), “Sanjog” (1985), “Eeshwar” (1989), “Sangeet” (1992) and “Dhanwan” (1993).

During the course of his filmmaking career the themes Viswanath tackled included the Indian caste system, disability, gender discrimination, misogyny, alcoholism and the challenges faced by Indian classical performing art forms.


K Viswanath won five National Film Awards. He also has several Nandi Awards and Filmfare Awards to his credit. Viswanath was honoured with the Padma Shri in 1992 and the Dadasaheb Phalke Award in 2017.

Film: Swathi Muthyam | 1986 | 161 Minutes | Telugu Language |

About the film: Swathi Muthyam (transl. White pearl) is a 1986 Indian Telugu-language drama film written and directed by K. Viswanath and produced by Edida Nageswara Rao. The film stars Kamal Haasan and Raadhika, while Gollapudi Maruti Rao, J. V. Somayajulu, Nirmalamma, Sarath Babu, and Y. Vijaya play supporting roles. The soundtrack and background score were composed by Ilaiyaraaja. Swathi Muthyam depicts the plight of a young widow who is rescued by an autistic man.

Theatrical Mushaira of famous Urdu poets of Deccan.

Justice to Bilkis Bano and other women subjected to violence

A 2002 Gujarat gangrape survivor Bilkis Bano who also lost 14 family members including a 3 years old daughter lives in the fear of 11 convicts who have been set free by the government with the consent of court. The rapists and murders were not only honoured but a BJP MLA, who was on the committee to decide remission of sentence, has described some of the convicts as sanskari Brahmins.
While Bilkis Bano clearly became a fodder for communal politics, especially in Gujarat, recent murders of Ankita Bhandari in Uttarakhand and Shraddha Walkar in Delhi and complaints and protest against sexual harassment of women wrestlers against the president of Wrestling Federation of India, a powerful member of Parliament of BJP, shows that patriarchy has a virtual stranglehold over our society.
Starting from 1848 school for girls by the Phule couple we have come a long way where women are formally not denied any position previously considered only male bastions but how long do we have to go before we can truly call ourselves a gender equal society inclusive of the now prominent and visible LGBTQIA+ community?


Date and day: 11 February, 2023, Saturday

Time: 11 am to 1 pm

Venue: Lamakaan, Off Road No. 1, Banjara Hills, Hyderabad

An event with Queer love stories and performances of queer love with queer art exhibition

Hyderabad Cinephiles is screening John Carpenter’s sci-fi movie “They Live” on Sunday, 12th February at 7:00 pm. Based on the short-story “Eight O'Clock in the Morning” by Ray Nelson, the movie follows the unnamed protagonist who, on a usual day of hardship, stumbles upon something that changes the course of his life - a pair of sunglasses that doesn’t let him not see anymore.

The screening will be followed by a discussion on various aspects of the movie.

February is more than the love month. It is the month to remember and celebrate one of the founders of French New Wave Cinema, Francois Truffaut.

About: Francois Truffaut: François Roland Truffaut 6 February 1932 – 21 October 1984) was a French film director, screenwriter, producer, actor, and film critic. He is widely regarded as one of the founders of the French New Wave. After more than 25 years of career, he remains an icon of the French film industry, having worked on over 25 films.

Truffaut's film The 400 Blows (1959) is a defining film of the French New Wave movement and has four sequels, Antoine et Colette (1962), Stolen Kisses (1968), Bed and Board (1970), and Love on the Run (1979). Truffaut's 1973 film Day for Night earned him critical acclaim and several awards, including the BAFTA Award for Best Film and the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. His other notable films include Shoot the Piano Player (1960), Jules and Jim (1962), The Soft Skin (1964), The Wild Child (1970), Two English Girls (1971), The Last Metro (1980), and The Woman Next Door (1981). He is also known for his supporting role in Steven Spielberg's science fiction film Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977).

Truffaut also wrote the notable book Hitchcock/Truffaut (1966), which detailed his interviews with the film director Alfred Hitchcock during the 1960s.

Film Title: Stolen Kisses | 1968 | 91 minutes | French language subtitled in English |


About the film: Stolen Kisses (French: Baisers volés) is a 1968 French romantic comedy-drama film directed by François Truffaut, starring Jean-Pierre Léaud, Delphine Seyrig and Claude Jade. It continues the story of the character Antoine Doinel, whom Truffaut had previously depicted in The 400 Blows (1959) and the short film Antoine and Colette (1962). In this film, Antoine begins his relationship with Christine Darbon, which is depicted further in the last two films in the series, Bed & Board (1970) and Love on the Run (1979).


Film Title: Day for Night | 1973 | 116 minutes | French language subtitled in English |


About the film: Day for Night is a 1973 romantic comedy-drama film co-written and directed by François Truffaut, starring Jacqueline Bisset, Jean-Pierre Léaud and Truffaut himself. The original French title, La Nuit américaine ("American Night"), refers to the French name for the filmmaking process whereby sequences filmed outdoors in daylight are shot with a filter over the camera lens (a technique described in the dialogue of Truffaut's film) or also using film stock balanced for tungsten (indoor) light and underexposed (or adjusted during post-production) to appear as if they are taking place at night. In English, the technique is called day for night.

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Urdu Shaahkaar: Masterpieces of Urdu Poetry
A conversation between S.M. Shahed and Mir Ali Husain

Shahed and Husain will talk about the works of great Urdu poets including Mirza Ghalib, Josh Malihabadi, Mohinder Singh Bedi, Balmukund Arsh Malsiani, Parveen Shakir, Brij Narayan Chakbast, Fahmida Riaz, Pandit Anand Mohan Gulzar Dehlavi, and Makhdoom Mohiuddin, among others.

S.M. Shahed is the force behind urdushahkar.org, one of the most important resources of Urdu poetry, with a rich and growing variety of content for both the rank beginner and the Urdu expert. Mir Ali Husain is an author, scriptwriter, and the lyricist of several songs including the super-hit "Ye Hausla" from the movie "Dor".

February is more than the love month. It is the month to remember and celebrate one of the founders of French New Wave Cinema, Francois Truffaut.

About: Francois Truffaut: François Roland Truffaut 6 February 1932 – 21 October 1984) was a French film director, screenwriter, producer, actor, and film critic. He is widely regarded as one of the founders of the French New Wave. After more than 25 years of career, he remains an icon of the French film industry, having worked on over 25 films.

Truffaut's film The 400 Blows (1959) is a defining film of the French New Wave movement and has four sequels, Antoine et Colette (1962), Stolen Kisses (1968), Bed and Board (1970), and Love on the Run (1979). Truffaut's 1973 film Day for Night earned him critical acclaim and several awards, including the BAFTA Award for Best Film and the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. His other notable films include Shoot the Piano Player (1960), Jules and Jim (1962), The Soft Skin (1964), The Wild Child (1970), Two English Girls (1971), The Last Metro (1980), and The Woman Next Door (1981). He is also known for his supporting role in Steven Spielberg's science fiction film Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977).

Truffaut also wrote the notable book Hitchcock/Truffaut (1966), which detailed his interviews with the film director Alfred Hitchcock during the 1960s.


Film Title: The Last Metro | 1980 | 131 minutes | French language subtitled in English |


The Last Metro (French: Le Dernier Métro) is a 1980 historical drama film, written and directed by François Truffaut, that stars Catherine Deneuve and Gérard Depardieu.

Opening in 1942 during the German occupation of France, it follows the fortunes of a small theatre in the Montmartre area of Paris which keeps up passive resistance by maintaining its cultural integrity, despite censorship, antisemitism and material shortages, to emerge triumphant at the war's end. The title evokes two salient facts about city life under the Germans: fuel shortages led people to spend their evenings in theatres and other places of entertainment, but the curfew meant they had to catch the last Métro train home.

Topic: Forgotten Muslim Empires of South India by Syed Ubaidur Rahman

Syed Ubaidur Rahman’s book 'Forgotten Muslim Empires of South India' is a thoroughgoing work of historical revisionism and excavation. It seeks to rehabilitate the Muslim Sultanates of medieval South India into mainstream historical discourse in India and thereby remedy its current marginal status. A major work of historiography, it delves into the Bahamani kingdom, the Adil Shahi Sultanate of Bijapur, the Nizam Shahi Sultanate of Ahmadnagar, the Qutub Shahi Sultanate of Golconda (Hyderabad), and the Sultanate of Madura (Ma’bar). Certain aspects of the political history of these sultanates, such as their rich cultural life, architectural achievements, and scholarly investments, are delved into.

They have all heavily contributed to the rich texture of Indian civilization. For instance, the Bahamani Sultanate collaborated with the neighboring Vijaynagar kingdom at the level of art and culture, thereby creating a syncretic nature of this medieval ethos.

This book is helpful to all scholars of medieval Indian history at an international level.

About the Author: Syed Ubaidur Rahman is a New Delhi-based author and columnist. His recent publications include 'Forgotten Muslim Empires of South India: Bahmani Empire, Madurai, Bijapur, Golconda & Mysore Sultanates' (2022), 'Biographical Encyclopaedia of Indian Muslim Freedom Fighters' (2021), and 'Ulema's Role in India's Freedom Movement with a Focus on Reshmi Rumal Tehrik' (2019).

Join us for the book launch of “The Forgotten Muslim Empires of South India.” Copies of the book will be available for sale at the event.

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Samahaara Workshop Productions
presents

A double bill of popular Telugu plays

Gollapudi Maruti Rao's
"KALLU"
&
Gandavaram Subbarami Reddy's
"AAGANDI NENU VASTUNNAA"

Directed by Rathna Shekar

24th Feb 2023
08.00pm
Lamakaan, Banjara Hills, Hydrabad.

Bookings at in.bookmyshow.com

KALLU (EYES), is a play about a group of people who are blind. They pool enough money by begging and for the collective good of the group they decide to get one of them eyes. What happens when one of them can see? Will the others be taken care of or exploited?

AAGANDI NENU VASTUNNAA is a play about Seetharamayya and his son Satyam. Seetharamayya is an orthodox middle class father who hates the creative field (Theatre/Acting). Satyam a very passionate and talented actor tries to change his fathers opinion. Will Satyam succeed?

Tired of your daily routine and eager to explore your hobbies? I'm starting a meet up group for hobbyists who are looking to start a new hobby or work on your existing hobby while chitchatting and interacting with likeminded individuals. Whether you enjoy crocheting, painting, designing, embroidery, tatting, drawing, photography, DIY projects, crafting, doll making, sewing, wood working or have any other hobbies, then this platform is for you. In light of current environmental issues, using sustainable and biodegradable materials for your projects is recommended, however not mandatory. Let's all do our part in protecting our environment while enjoying our hobbies.

'In Defense of Reason' invites you to a talk on
'One Year of Delhi Anganwadi Caregivers’ Heroic Strike: Prospects, Challenges and the Road Ahead'

Speaker:
Shivani Kaul
(President, Delhi State Anganwadi Workers and Helpers Union (DSAWHU), Political Analyst and Political Activist)

Dear Friends,

The Anganwadi caregivers of Delhi had led a historic strike for 38 days since 31st January 2022 under the leadership of Delhi State Anganwadi Workers and Helpers Union (DSAWHU). It was one of the major strikes in the recent history of working class movement in Delhi as well as India with three massive rallies in the heart of Delhi.

In those 38 days, this strike had not only become a challenge for the Delhi Kejriwal Government and the Central Modi Government, but at the same time exposed the entire capitalist system. Despite their relentess efforts, the BJP Government at the Centre and the AAP Government of Delhi failed to sabotage the strike. However, owing to their growing desperation and panic both these parties mutually agreed upon imposing draconian Essential Services Maintainance Act (ESMA).


In the current session, 'In defence of Reason' has invited Shivani Kaul, a political activist and president, DSAWHU to share her views on the events that led to strike, post-strike developments, the challenges that face the struggle of caregivers everywhere fighting for regularisation who are not identified as a government employees but are rather termed as "volunteers", the political economy of care work and how the capitalist system exploits these caregivers, the prospects, challenges and road ahead for these struggles.

We heartily extend our invitation to everyone to be part of this important talk and we hope this talk will be able to deal, though in a very limited and humble way, with some of these pertinent questions confronting the working class movement in India at present.

Samahaara Workshop Productions
presents

"PAAPAM URI TEESTHARU KABOLU"
(Telugu Play)
An adaptation of Reginald Rose's 12 Angry Men
Translated into Telugu by Chitta Shankar

Directed by Rathna Shekar

25th Feb 2023
08.00pm
Lamakaan, Banjara Hills, Hydrabad.

Bookings at in.bookmyshow.com

Twelve persons have been led into a jury room of a court of law. They are given final instructions about determining the verdict in a murder case whose defendant faces the death penalty if found guilty.They gather around a table to begin discussions about the case. The defendant, a young man, is accused of killing his father; and, after a preliminary vote, all but one of the jurors presume he is guilty. Juror #8 is the only one who feels differently. Because they must come to a unanimous decision, debates begin. Most of the men are upset and very vocal about the dissenting vote. It is agreed to go around the table and have each man explain why he believes the young man is guilty, in hopes of convincing Juror #8 to change his mind. They heatedly discuss the known facts of the case; and little by little the personalities, opinions, and biases of each juror become evident. Will the juror #8 stand his ground or can the others convince him otherwise?

The Hyderabad Fountain Pen Club is a group of Fountain Pen users, enthusiasts and collectors. Join us and share in the love for precious family legacies or recent purchases.

In February 2020, the National Capital witness a series of anti Muslim pogrom that continued unabated for almost a week. A total of 53 people lost their lives while thousand others were displaced. Speaker Aasif Mujtaba, lead one of the largest relief & rehabilitation projects in the affected area. The talk today will highlight his personal experience of working with the affected community.

The Navarasas are the nine expressions that humans show. these emotions are a part and parcel of any human being but also These are the nine emotions that are known to evoke an audience during an experience of art performance.

We all go through all of these emotions at various points of our lives. We all at some point experience the feeling of love, surprise, anger, sadness, fear, courage, aversion and peace.

as we feel these rasas, the way we emote comes from the places of privilege,space and time. for a queer community, the way we see these navarasa are far more different from a cis hetero lense.

As Drag an artfrom which evokes rasa(emotion) to its audience, its never seen as a nuaced way of expressing them. to bridge the diversity of drag and its performers, on how one can emote with art, the Navarasa in drag musicals is presented.

here there are 9 drag artists, performing the 9 navarasas, and traversing through the idea of queer politics, queer fears, queer love and the universe under a rainbow.

March brings the blooming flowers and the great joys of David Lean's films to Lamakaan.

About David Lean: Sir David Lean CBE (25 March 1908 – 16 April 1991) was an English film director, producer, screenwriter, and editor. Widely considered one of the most influential figures in British cinema, Lean directed the large-scale epics The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), Lawrence of Arabia (1962), Doctor Zhivago (1965), and A Passage to India (1984).[1] He also directed the film adaptations of two Charles Dickens novels, Great Expectations (1946) and Oliver Twist (1948), as well as the romantic drama Brief Encounter (1945).

Originally a film editor in the early 1930s, Lean made his directorial debut with 1942's In Which We Serve, the first of four collaborations with Noël Coward. Beginning in the Summertime of 1955, Lean started to make internationally co-produced films financed by the big Hollywood studios; in 1970, however, the critical failure of his film Ryan's Daughter led him to take a fourteen-year break from filmmaking, during which he planned many film projects which never came to fruition. In 1984 he had a career revival with A Passage to India, adapted from E. M. Forster's novel; it was an instant hit with critics but proved to be the last film Lean would direct.

Lean's affinity for pictorialism and inventive editing techniques has led him to be lauded by directors such as Steven Spielberg, Stanley Kubrick, Martin Scorsese, and Ridley Scott. Lean was voted 9th greatest film director of all time in the British Film Institute Sight & Sound "Directors' Top Directors" poll in 2002. Nominated seven times for the Academy Award for Best Director, which he won twice for The Bridge on the River Kwai and Lawrence of Arabia, he has seven films in the British Film Institute's Top 100 British Films (with three of them being in the top five) and was awarded the AFI Life Achievement Award in 1990.


Film Title: Great Expectations | 1946 | 118 minutes | English language |

About the film: Great Expectations is a 1946 British drama directed by David Lean, based on the 1861 novel by Charles Dickens and starring John Mills and Valerie Hobson. The supporting cast included Bernard Miles, Francis L. Sullivan, Anthony Wager, Jean Simmons, Finlay Currie, Martita Hunt, and Alec Guinness.

The script is based on a slimmed-down version of Dickens' novel. It was written by David Lean, Anthony Havelock-Allan, Cecil McGivern, Ronald Neame, and Kay Walsh after Lean had seen an abridged 1939 stage version of the novel written by Alec Guinness.


Film Title: Brief Encounter | 1945 | 87 minutes | English language |

About the film: Brief Encounter is a 1945 British romantic drama film directed by David Lean from a screenplay by Noël Coward, based on his 1936 one-act play Still Life.

Starring Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard, Stanley Holloway, and Joyce Carey, it follows a passionate extramarital affair in England shortly before World War II. The protagonist is Laura, a married woman with children whose conventional life becomes increasingly complicated after a chance meeting at a railway station with a married stranger with whom she subsequently falls in love.

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‘Stolen Shorelines,’ a powerful and visually stimulating documentary written and directed by KA Shaji, highlights the disappearance of shorelines, especially in and around Thiruvananthapuram city. Shaji is an environmental journalist with two decades of intense engagement with Kerala’s climatic and livelihood issues.

It serves as a reminder of how encroachments on the natural ecosystems can trigger a series of disruptions to an already ecologically fragile piece of land. It establishes how corporate greed and wrong development notions aggravate the climate crisis in Vizhinjam, Kovalam, Shanghumugham, Muthalapozhi and all other beaches in Thiruvananthapuram, some of which, like Kovalam, once remained sought after by global tourists.

The documentary leaves you in a state of shock. It presents bare facts and shocking information using extensively researched data and testimonials from local people. It researches the imminent threats posed to our shorelines even as we dream about the long-term benefits of developmental projects that aim to make Kerala a superpower.

SCREENING FOLLOWED BY DISCUSSION with the Director!

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Sutradhar celebrates International Womens Day with ‘Adhikaar’ – Two women belonging to different yugas take on a path to self-discovery to seek their identity and redefine their individuality.

Dushala:
The epic Mahabharat written since time immemorial has been told and retold. Even today verses from it are quoted for spiritual and other references. But while many of its primarily male characters are worshipped and celebrated, one woman was buried long ago in the epic mythology's pages.
While her mother Gandhari chose to blind herself from the world, her only daughter Dushala's identity, aspirations and concerns were forcefully muted for she was born after a 100 Kaurav brothers and lived merely as a shadow.
Even after many yugas, Dushala, the disregarded daughter is born and reborn, looking restlessly for her identity, her individuality. Was there more to her than being the only daughter born in the 'Kuruvansh' of Hastinapur, the only sister of Kauravas and Pandavas, the wife of King Jayadrath and mother of Prince Surath?

Weekend:
A part of Nirmal Verma’s famous trilogy ‘Teen Ekaant’, Weekend is the story of a woman bound by love and memories who finds herself caught between societal brackets of relationships and her quest for solitude. Her innermost thoughts linger on her mind as she finds herself in an unlabelled relationship with a divorced man who is also the father of a young girl. While she loves and wants to be loved, her ache for self-love and solitude seems above all.