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Awards / Theatre

Editor Manohar Khushalani got Natsamrat Best Critic Award this day in 2019

The Glittering night of Natsamrat Theatre Awards. This was the most memorable moment of that year for StageBuzz Ed, Manohar Khushalani To be Awarded The 2019 Natsamrat Best Theatre Critic Award. It was indeed a fulfilling moment and an acknowledgement of his decades of consistent and persistent work as a critic for Pioneer (Column: Foot Lights), Mid Day (Culture Cocktail) and of course StageBuzz (Editor).

Events / Theatre

Pierrot’s Troupe presents a new play on Sahir and it’s all time popular comedy on Ghalib

Sahir Ka Khayal Aaya (Urdu) – The play celebrated Sahir Ludhianvi’s  100th Birth Anniversary  on March 8 this year. It  is presented as a ‘Monologue’ (performed by Sharique Aziz) as it showcases young Sahir in the state of crafting  his long poem Parchhaiyan, arguably the best and definitely the longest  anti-war poem of the last 100 years.

Film

26th Kolkata International Film Festival opens on Jan 8th 2021.

This year, the inauguration of the Kolkata International Film Festival (KIFF) will be at Nabanna Sabhaghar. Chief minister Mamata Banerjee will inaugurate the festival only in the presence  Organizing committee members. However, attempts are being made to get outstation celebrities to join the inauguration virtually, but confirmation is still awaited from the celebrities

Bansi Kaul

Prose / Theatre

A Battle of Life That I Will Win| Bansi Kaul

I have been unwell and have been detected with cancer of the brain as well as the lungs. Yet I am sure I will pull through and that we will soon meet again. Your good wishes are my strength – Bansi Kaul

Theatre

Marathi Veteran Actress Lalita Kenkre no more

A popular actor of yester years, Lalita Kenkre, passed away in her sleep peacefully on 28th July 2020 morning. She was 86. Wife of noted theatre director, actor, designer Damoo Kenkre, mother of director...

Art

Renowned Sculptor, Jyotsna Bhatt, passes away

Known to be one of India’s best-known ceramic artists, Baroda-based Bhatt breathed her last on July 11, two days after she suffered a stroke. She was 80. “She was a gentle and generous person, who made wonderful work. A nodal figure for artists working in ceramics, her works received wide recognition and she would often travel to conduct workshops across the country,” says artist Nilima Sheikh.