Me, Kash & Cruise
Me, Kash & Cruise – A Competent and Cleverly Crafted Production of Significance A Review by Manohar Khushalani (Left) Rajit Kapoor as many faces of “Bombay” (Right) Amit Mistry & Neil Bhoopalam As a...
Category: Performing Arts
Arunima – a dancer who educates as she performs
I first saw Arunima dance before a TV camera in Lodhi Gardens. The effortles ease with which she glided through her steps almost simulated levitation. She is one of the India’s most versatile leading...
A Young Dancer’s First Solo
A Young Dancer’s First Solo -Manohar Khushalani An Arangetram in dance is like an airplane pilots first solo flight – an announcement to the worldthat you have arrived and can now go it alone. Shruti...
The Owl and the Pussy Cat – Art review by Seema Bawa
“The Owl and the pussy cat went to sea in a beautiful pea green boat…” Thrown together in a low-rent bachelor’s flat instead of a ‘pea-green boat’, the odd couple in this highly amusing...
Pulling Strings – A review of the Ishara International Puppet Theatre Festival by Divya Raina
It doesn’t quite matter whether one pulls strings or uses larger than life marionettes, glove or rod puppets, its pure theatre that one is watching. Quite distinct from a puppet or the kathputli show...
Burqavaganza – Banned in Pakistan staged in BHARANGAM – Compiled by Manohar Khushalani
At the recently concluded BHARANGAM, the Theatre Fest organized by the National School of Drama, a Pakistani play, Burqavaganza, produced by Ajoka Theatre Group, was staged at Kamani Auditorium, New Delhi. The play had...
NATI BINODINI steals the show at Bharat Rang Mahotsav
Nati Binodini, presented at Kamani in January 2008 in the NSD Theatre Utsav 2008 by Theatre and Television Associates, New Delhi, Directed by Amal Allana received a standing ovation and was one of the...
The partition play, YATRA, moves Bharangam audiences
One has been a great admirer of Kewal Dhaliwal’s work and when Madiha Gauhar, the theatre director and actor from Pakistan recommended it to me I realized that it would definitely be a momentous...
