 "A weekend of unexpected encounters and comic capers")
NEW DELHI
Stand-up Comedy
Comedy face-off: Fight Comic, Singapore’s most popular comedy competition, is now in India with a desi flavour. The performers for the evening are Sumit Anand, Manan Desai, Madhvendra Singh, Rohan Desai, Abhishek Upmanyu and Denny George.
Where: blueFROG, Meharauli, New Delhi
When: July 18, 8.30 pm
Info: Rs 500 per person
Where: The Stein Auditorium, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi
When: Saturday, 18th July, 7pm
Info: Rs 250-350
Music
Where: Hard Rock Café, Gurgaon
When: July 17, 8.30 pm
Info: Entry fee Rs 500
Where: Summer House Café, Aurobindo Market, New Delhi
When: July 18, 9 pm
Where: The Stein Auditorium, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi
When: July 20, 7.30 pm
Info: Tickets priced at Rs 300-400
Art
Amateur Photography: Nicefoto 2014 is one of a kind exhibition for celebrating amateur photography across the world. It will feature photos from over 135 enthusiasts aged between 7 years and 67 years from India and around the world
Where: Open Palm Court Gallery, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi
When: July 19 onwards, 11 am to 7.30 pm
Walks
Where: Old Delhi, meeting point at Chawri Bazaar metro station
When: July 19, 11 pm to 5 am
Info: RSVP at 9891121333, or email delhifoodwalks@gmail.com, Rs 700.
BANGALORE
Theatre
Broadway dreams: Bangalore-based theatre group Antardwand is commemorating 100 years of George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion with the staging of My Fair Lady, the Broadway musical and film version. The familiar story of Eliza Doolittle and Professor Henry Higgins is being brought to life by a 50-member cast with music, dancing and costumes from Britain of the 1940s.
Where: MLR Convention Centre, Dyvasandra Industrial Layout, Whitefield
When: July 20, 11 am and 5 pm,
Info: Passes (Rs 300-900) available on www.bookmyshow.com
Unexpected encounters: With women in the two lead roles, this is the female version of acclaimed playwright Neil Simon's The Odd Couple. In the play, Olive Madison is divorced and living in her apartment in New York. Madison invites the newly-divorced, suicidal Florence Unger to stay with her but the experiment has unexpected consequences. The play has been directed by Jagdish Raja.
Where: Jagriti, Varthur Road, Bangalore
When: At 8 pm on July 17-19, 3 pm and 6.30 pm on July 20
Music
Jamming it up: The Family Cheese may be a rock/fusion jam band, but their repertoire spans blues, funk, reggage, alternate rock, hip-hop and jazz. The three members of the Mumbai-based band are all alumni of the Swarnabhoomi Academy of Music, and their music is a culmination of their diverse interests.
Where: BFlat, 100 Feet Road, Indira Nagar, Bangalore
When: July 18, 9 pm
KOLKATA
Art
Radical traditions: Chitrakoot Art Gallery presents ‘Forms and Fables’, a contemporary art exhibition which will showcase the art works by eminent artists like Tapas Sarkar, Aditya Basak, Amitabha Dhar, Chanchal Mukherjee, Atin Basak, Sukanta Das, Ashoke Mullick, Pradip Rakshit and Arup Das. Brought together by Khushboo Kejriwal for this show, they celebrate traditional themes with forms of expression that are radically different from the past revealing deft individual touches.
Where: Chitrakoot Gallery, Gariahat Road, Kolkata
When: Until July 23, 3 pm to 8 pm
Music
Musical evening: Myriad Moments presents ‘Swarnali Sandhya’, a musical evening which will feature performances by various artists such as Haimanti Sukla, Pradip Dutta, Chandrabali Rudra Dutta and Deepa Dutta among others. So head to Children’s Little Theatre for an evening of delightful music.
Where: Children’s Little Theatre, Gariahat Road, Kolkata
When: July 20, 6 pm
MUMBAI
Film
Bimal Roy Retrospective: Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalay is hosting an exhibition on the life and times of eminent film director Bimal Roy. This will be accompanied by screenings of films including Do Bigha Zameen, the 1953 socialist film starring Balraj Sahni and Nirupa Roy. Also to be screened are Madhumati, one of the earliest films to talk of reincarnation; Parakh, a satirical look at Indian democracy and Usne Kaha Tha, which was produced by Roy.
Where: Curators’ Gallery, CSMVS, Fort, Mumbai
When: July 18, 19, 11 am & 2 pm
Where: Russian Centre for Science and Culture, Pedder Road, Mumbai
When: July 22, 25 & 29, 6 pm
Music
Tribute to Rabindranath Tagore: Eminent filmmaker-poet Gulzar and the doyen of the Patiala gharana Ajoy Chakrabarty will pay a tribute to Rabindranath Tagore. Gulzar will recite his Hindi translations of selected works of Rabindranath, while Chakrabarty will showcase some of Tagore’s compositions: dhrupad, khayal, thumri, geet and songs based on Western tunes. Tagore, the Nobel laureate, poet, novelist and composer has had a large-scale influence not only on Indian literature but music as well. His body of musical works boasts over 2,000 songs based on various ragas and talas.
Where: NCPA, Nariman Point, Mumbai
When: July 19, 6 pm
Tickets: Rs 300-1,000
Theatre
Where: NCPA, Nariman Point, Mumbai
When: July 19 & 20, 7 pm
Tickets: Rs 270-360
Stand-up Comedy
Comedy face-off: Fight Comic, Singapore’s most popular comedy competition, is now in India with a desi flavour. The performers for the evening are Sumit Anand, Manan Desai, Madhvendra Singh, Rohan Desai, Abhishek Upmanyu and Denny George.
Where: blueFROG, Meharauli, New Delhi
When: July 18, 8.30 pm
Info: Rs 500 per person
Where: The Stein Auditorium, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi
When: Saturday, 18th July, 7pm
Info: Rs 250-350
Music
Where: Hard Rock Café, Gurgaon
When: July 17, 8.30 pm
Info: Entry fee Rs 500
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Electro-funk night: Summer House Café will host performances by three of the most popular electro music artists in the country right now – DJ Arjun Vagale, experimental eletro-visual act BLOT and DJ Kohra.
Where: Summer House Café, Aurobindo Market, New Delhi
When: July 18, 9 pm
Where: The Stein Auditorium, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi
When: July 20, 7.30 pm
Info: Tickets priced at Rs 300-400
Art
Amateur Photography: Nicefoto 2014 is one of a kind exhibition for celebrating amateur photography across the world. It will feature photos from over 135 enthusiasts aged between 7 years and 67 years from India and around the world
Where: Open Palm Court Gallery, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi
When: July 19 onwards, 11 am to 7.30 pm
Walks
Where: Old Delhi, meeting point at Chawri Bazaar metro station
When: July 19, 11 pm to 5 am
Info: RSVP at 9891121333, or email delhifoodwalks@gmail.com, Rs 700.
BANGALORE
Theatre
Broadway dreams: Bangalore-based theatre group Antardwand is commemorating 100 years of George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion with the staging of My Fair Lady, the Broadway musical and film version. The familiar story of Eliza Doolittle and Professor Henry Higgins is being brought to life by a 50-member cast with music, dancing and costumes from Britain of the 1940s.
Where: MLR Convention Centre, Dyvasandra Industrial Layout, Whitefield
When: July 20, 11 am and 5 pm,
Info: Passes (Rs 300-900) available on www.bookmyshow.com
Unexpected encounters: With women in the two lead roles, this is the female version of acclaimed playwright Neil Simon's The Odd Couple. In the play, Olive Madison is divorced and living in her apartment in New York. Madison invites the newly-divorced, suicidal Florence Unger to stay with her but the experiment has unexpected consequences. The play has been directed by Jagdish Raja.
Where: Jagriti, Varthur Road, Bangalore
When: At 8 pm on July 17-19, 3 pm and 6.30 pm on July 20
Music
Jamming it up: The Family Cheese may be a rock/fusion jam band, but their repertoire spans blues, funk, reggage, alternate rock, hip-hop and jazz. The three members of the Mumbai-based band are all alumni of the Swarnabhoomi Academy of Music, and their music is a culmination of their diverse interests.
Where: BFlat, 100 Feet Road, Indira Nagar, Bangalore
When: July 18, 9 pm
KOLKATA
Art
Radical traditions: Chitrakoot Art Gallery presents ‘Forms and Fables’, a contemporary art exhibition which will showcase the art works by eminent artists like Tapas Sarkar, Aditya Basak, Amitabha Dhar, Chanchal Mukherjee, Atin Basak, Sukanta Das, Ashoke Mullick, Pradip Rakshit and Arup Das. Brought together by Khushboo Kejriwal for this show, they celebrate traditional themes with forms of expression that are radically different from the past revealing deft individual touches.
Where: Chitrakoot Gallery, Gariahat Road, Kolkata
When: Until July 23, 3 pm to 8 pm
Music
Musical evening: Myriad Moments presents ‘Swarnali Sandhya’, a musical evening which will feature performances by various artists such as Haimanti Sukla, Pradip Dutta, Chandrabali Rudra Dutta and Deepa Dutta among others. So head to Children’s Little Theatre for an evening of delightful music.
Where: Children’s Little Theatre, Gariahat Road, Kolkata
When: July 20, 6 pm
MUMBAI
Film
Bimal Roy Retrospective: Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalay is hosting an exhibition on the life and times of eminent film director Bimal Roy. This will be accompanied by screenings of films including Do Bigha Zameen, the 1953 socialist film starring Balraj Sahni and Nirupa Roy. Also to be screened are Madhumati, one of the earliest films to talk of reincarnation; Parakh, a satirical look at Indian democracy and Usne Kaha Tha, which was produced by Roy.
Where: Curators’ Gallery, CSMVS, Fort, Mumbai
When: July 18, 19, 11 am & 2 pm
Where: Russian Centre for Science and Culture, Pedder Road, Mumbai
When: July 22, 25 & 29, 6 pm
Music
Tribute to Rabindranath Tagore: Eminent filmmaker-poet Gulzar and the doyen of the Patiala gharana Ajoy Chakrabarty will pay a tribute to Rabindranath Tagore. Gulzar will recite his Hindi translations of selected works of Rabindranath, while Chakrabarty will showcase some of Tagore’s compositions: dhrupad, khayal, thumri, geet and songs based on Western tunes. Tagore, the Nobel laureate, poet, novelist and composer has had a large-scale influence not only on Indian literature but music as well. His body of musical works boasts over 2,000 songs based on various ragas and talas.
Where: NCPA, Nariman Point, Mumbai
When: July 19, 6 pm
Tickets: Rs 300-1,000
Theatre
Where: NCPA, Nariman Point, Mumbai
When: July 19 & 20, 7 pm
Tickets: Rs 270-360