Ek Akhari Baar, Anonymous Theatre Group, Bharat Natya Mandir

The quality and substance in the drama making process has quadrupled in the city; in terms of the story, sets and actors.Experimentation is the flavour of the season and the audience love it. Ek Akhari Baar, presented by Anonymous theatre group made wondeful use of music to create a dramatic element, it did feel like drama-come-alive.The props and the set looked ingenious with the use of a doll’s house, swords, the box and Greeco-looking-pillars. If you have seen the film, “The Illusionist” casting Edward Norton, yesterday’s play may leave the film behind. Tricks like, when a doll is put in a box and a girl appears in it after the snap of a finger. One of the actor pull’sup a volunteer, puts her in a box, uses swords through the box, and lo, the girl appears on the other end of the auditorium, standing at the gate is unbelievable! The play is a story about a magician who wants to become someone and is in search of true magic. The backdrop of the story is magic but asks you not to give up even if something goes wrong. The actor also made one of the cast sit in the audience and waved at him making full use of the dramatic space. Such techniques blur the lines between the artist and the audience. For example, one of the character comes strutting behind from the other end in a stick. The use of soundtrack is just awesome. The stunts when the character puts a sword in his throat is surreal but real, it gave me goosebump while watching it. The playmakers want to leave the audience guessing about ” how to transport a man”. The group used a unique drama making process, after writing the plays a year and half back, the directors did not hold any audition but handpicked the actors after watching most plays of Puruhsottam Karandak and Firodiya Karandak.ou do not want to miss more of the featival and theatre group! The directors and script writers: Shriniwas Patwardhan, Soumitra Thorat

Year 2012 has been the worst year of my life.
While on one hand, my biggest prayer went unanswered, on the other, I suffered terrible maximum pain, the kind that I hope no one has to bear.
Yet, there was a ay of hope in my job. The much-awaited raise happened in October & I realized that I was getting better at my job and getting the necessary intrinsic encouragement and motivation. 
While things did getter better on the job front and I embraced the practice of Buddhism that did answer a couple of my payers and gave me peace from within and also helped me be stronger, my life condition on the personal front degraded. Some of my best friends, whose company I enjoy, are no more there to talk to or hang out with or have fun with.    
The person I so deeply loved & was attached to committed himself to someone else. Yes, that hurts. Especially in the mornings when I wake up with thoughts of him on my mind. Ain't easy, until you send someone into my life. Someone who can love me again, who i can love back too.
 

Monty Python And The Holy Grail

"If life seems jolly rotten
There's something you've forgotten
And that's to laugh and smile ans dance and sing.....
When you're feeling in the dumps
Don't be silly chumps
Just purse your lips and whistle--that's the thing"

The Thin Red Line

" Do you ever feel lonely?
Only among people"

Babo

A very sweet movie ! A boy who loses his father in an accident at home, is affected by the incident and becomes mentally challenged. His mother also dies and leaves to his care his sister. She tells him , we do not have anything to leave to her but you. So love her and take care of her. This talisman becomes his sole religion in life and he works hard to collect money so that his sister might need it in the future.
His girlfriend/friends in the movie is very sweet too!

Karthik Calling Karthik

A good story where a man who is burdened by life and his confidence is crushed, has a resurrection when he begins to receive phone calls in the morning which turn out to be his own self. I like this film because the story is made for the Indian audience and is provoking. How a man's life is resurrected only to discover that all good that's been happening was his own self and was never true. This film shows courage is not revealed in miracles and himalayan fights but in weakness also. An inspiring film!

Mystic river

A simple story told very powerfully.A small childhood incident can linger in our minds for long and comes to affect all characters in the story.