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  1. The footpath opposite Cinemax

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    / February 4, 2012 / 4 Comments
    “Would you like to see Ra.one tonight?” texted my dad one evening last October. Of course I’d like to see Ra.one, I’d love to see Ra.one. There was a special screening at Prasad Labs in Hyderabad that night. So, my  sister and I, contrary to how we generally dress up for...

  2. Play on Mayawati not allowed

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    / January 25, 2012 / 2 Comments
    Uttar Pradesh elections do not cease to surprise. Now the District Magistrate of Lucknow, Anil Sagar has disallowed permission to stage a play `My sandals’ since according to him, it has references to the chief minister, Mayawati and her party’s symbol, the elephant. This he says, is a violation of...

  3. Gathering ‘Broken Images’

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    / December 10, 2011 / 3 Comments
    Girish Karnad is famous as a playwright among his other achievements. The title of his play ‘Broken Images’ has been inspired from T.S Eliot’s ‘The Wasteland.’ “What are these roots that clutch, what branches grow Out of this stony rubbish? Son of man, You cannot say, or guess, for you...

  4. Exploring Broadway

    Posted by kamal kamaraju
    / September 21, 2011 / Leave a comment
    By Kamal Kamaraju It takes a lot of effort to become part of a community. Broadway is something that I have heard or seen in movies and read a few books in school. Shakespeare’s plays that we played in school were part of such legacy. But I never got an...

  5. Who’s afraid of Virginia Woolf?

    Posted by kamal kamaraju
    / September 20, 2011 / 2 Comments
    By Kamal Kamaraju “I am… I am..” says Martha at the end of the play.  As I sign up and get on board of this massive production, `Who’s afraid of Virginia Woof?’ I too utter the same words, especially with Ilayaraaja sir on board and him personally composing as we...

  6. Once upon a time at Bangalore’s Plaza

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    / June 14, 2011 / 3 Comments
    Like many Bangaloreans, I have spent a sinful amount of time in the darkness of Plaza, one of Bangalore’s oldest movie theatres on MG Road, while our teachers and lecturers were busy shouting hoarse to an almost empty class. `Once upon a time at Bangalore’s Plaza’ is a photoblog of...

  7. An evening, all ears

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    / May 23, 2011 / 3 Comments
    By T S Sudhir   I am not an authority on theatre. Whatever little exposure and understanding I have had, has been courtesy my collegemate and dear friend Satyajit Sharma who joined the National School of Drama (NSD), the premier institution to learn theatre, in Delhi in 1991. This meant several...

  8. Rahi Masoom Raza, reborn

    Posted by vinay varma
    / November 21, 2010 / 2 Comments
    By Vinay Varma   It always happens. The butterflies in your tummy refuse to die down even after you have performed the play innumerable times. And each time, before the curtains go up, I remember a quote I read many years ago in the `Business Digest’: “A little bit of...

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