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Vijay Varma in ‘Gustaakh Ishq’ | Photo Credit: Stage5 Production/YouTube An ageing poet, his stoic daughter and a cunning publisher make the subjects of filmmaker Vibhu Puri’s student film, Chabiwali Pocket Watch (2006). Set in the ruins of old Delhi at an unspecified time, there are signs of an impressionistic, young mind in its eerie…
Kathak dancer Ashimbandhu Bhattacharjee’s performance highlighted the guru-sishya bond between Ramakrishna Pramahamsa and Swami Vivekananda. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Ashimbandhu Bhattacharjee (Kathak), Deepak Majumdar (Bharatanatyam) and Aruna Mohanty (Odissi), who performed at the festival, showed how poetry finds diverse interpretations in dance. It was an evening meant to celebrate the contributions of three veteran…
Listen here: Jeet Thayil’s Journey Through Rhythm and Reflection Excerpts from the interview:Q: This latest volume, which is so slim but packs quite a punch, is quite a distillation of your work, isn’t it?A: Yeah, I think it is. And I think it’s also a kind of departure from earlier books in a sense that…
Mandala had Chandana Bala Kalyan’s music and Amrita Lahiri’s dance in equal measure. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Song and dance were inseparable in Mandala, which depicted the journey from seeking outside to finding within. Directed and choreographed by Leela Samson, and set to poetry by Kabir, Annamacharya, Meera Bai, Kshetrayya, Soyarabai and Kanakadasa, among…
Social media has spawned a class of so-called influencers who make it a point to visit every art gallery, fair and museum here and abroad, and thereafter very generously share their experience of viewing the latest exhibitions with “friends”. However, there is a catch. The influencers in their glad rags invariably pose in front of…
