Bazm e Sukhan

Bazm e Sukhan
Music
3.0 hrs

December 27, 2019 6:00 pm Friday

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Celebrating Bazm e Sukhan’s first anniversary.

Aao ke koi khwaab bunen :- Mir Ali Husain duration 90 min Husain is a writer and is currently working on a theatrical project based on the life of Sahir Ludhianvi.

Sameena Begum would speak on Dholak ke Geet Sameena Begum is researcher and published author with focus on Hyderabadi culture and Urdu. Her latest work “Hyderabadi Dholak Ke Geet” is a rigorous study of about 10 years. She studied MA, M.Phil in MANUU, and currently pursuing PhD in Urdu from Osmania University.

Reading Jeelani Bano’s short stories By Elahe Hiptoola , Rajaa Farhan and Ramsha Farhan.

Elahé Hiptoola is a Film Producer with award winning films like Iqbal, Dor and Dhanak to her credit. She is also one of the founders of Lamakaan.

Rajaa is a young photographer and Assistant Manager at Lamakaan.

Ramsha studies liberal arts at the Azim Premji University in Bangalore.

Ashhar Farhan will read from Anees Ayesha’s new book. “Main ne yeh jaana” – is an unprecedented transliterated introduction to Urdu poetry

The next edition of HLF is scheduled for 24-26th Jan 2020. Nearly 200 speakers, of whom 25-30% from outside India, are expected to participate in the Festival. HLF 2020 is the 10th Edition and is special. It is planned to further add to the scope and scale of the festival, increase in activities, and create interest across a wider target audiences.

To celebrate the 10th year, a new segment has been proposed to be introduced, starting ten weeks before. Every Friday the Festival itself – called Festival Fridays: Countdown to Ten Years of HLF

27th Dec 2019 is the 6th Festival Friday event in collaboration with Lamakaan.

Organizer
Lamakaan An Open Cultural Space

Badlav

Badlav
Play
1.0 hrs

December 26, 2019 8:00 pm Thursday

Badlav is an original Hindi play written and directed by Amaan Ahmad. Badlav revolves around Gayatri, Kalpana, Radha, and Bindya. Gayatri wants change but her hypocrisy surfaces all the time. Meanwhile, Kalpana, a carefree girl always brings nihilistic values of life. Radha is air-headed and her naivety mixes with intuition and she is lost in her absurd thoughts most of the time. The play takes various twists and turns and touches the element of the Theatre of Absurdity. This psychological and absurd play has multiple rises and falls.

Organizer
Amaan Ahmad (The Unknown Pen)

The Unknown Pen is a theatre group based in Hyderabad. It was initially founded as a content writing platform and also a platform where the artists could showcase their original and unique work, by Amaan Ahmad in the year 2009. We are the first theatre group in the city that works majorly on Original plays that belong to the genre of ‘Theatre of the Absurd’. The first play produced by The Unknown Pen is called ‘Skepticism’, a dark psychological play that involves the elements of Surrealism, Existentialism, and Absurdism. Our vision is to revive the theatre culture across the country. Our plays are known for the depth of their content. We aim to stir the minds of the people in terms of philosophy and art.

Potluck movie screening

Potluck movie screening
Movies
2.5 hrs

December 25, 2019 7:30 pm Wednesday

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The movie is about an economics graduate student studying for a year in Barcelona, Spain, as part of the Erasmus programme, where he learns from a group of students from all over Western Europe in a student share-house.

Organizer
Cinephiles Film Club

Cricket Country – Book Launch

Cricket Country – Book Launch
Discussion
2.0 hrs

December 24, 2019 7:30 pm Tuesday

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Cricket Country by Dr.Prashant Kidambi – Book Discussion.

Dr.Prashant Kidambi, the author of the book, will be discussing the book with Mr. Ram Manohar Reddy, Editor of “The India Forum”, a digital publication on contemporary issues. Tue Dec 24, 7:30 PM.

Lamakaan – An Open Cultural Space Cricket Country has won the Sportsbook of the year award at the Ekamra Sports Literature Festival and also been selected as one of FT’s best books of 2019. “On the morning of 6 May 1911, a large crowd gathered at Bombay’s Ballard Pier. They were there to bid farewell to a motley group of sixteen Indian men who were about to undertake a historic voyage to London. The persons whom the crowd cheered that sultry Saturday morning were members of the first All-India cricket team. Conceived by an unlikely coalition of imperial and Indian elites, it took twelve years and three failed attempts before an ‘Indian’ cricket team made its debut on the playing fields of imperial Britain in the blazing coronation summer of 1911. This is a capacious tale with an improbable cast of characters set against the backdrop of revolutionary protest and princely intrigue. The captain of the Indian team was nineteen-year old Bhupinder Singh, the embattled Maharaja of Patiala. The other cricketers were selected on the basis of their religious identity. Most remarkable, for the day, was the presence in the side of two Dalits: the Palwankar brothers, Baloo and Shivram. Drawing on an unparalleled range of original archival sources, Cricket Country is the untold story of how the idea of India was fashioned on the cricket pitch in the high noon of empire”.

Organizer
Lamakaan An Open Cultural Space

Bazm e Sukhan

Bazm e Sukhan
Music
3.0 hrs

December 27, 2019 6:00 pm Friday

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Celebrating Bazm e Sukhan’s first anniversary.

Aao ke koi khwaab bunen :- Mir Ali Husain duration 90 min Husain is a writer and is currently working on a theatrical project based on the life of Sahir Ludhianvi.

Sameena Begum would speak on Dholak ke Geet Sameena Begum is researcher and published author with focus on Hyderabadi culture and Urdu. Her latest work “Hyderabadi Dholak Ke Geet” is a rigorous study of about 10 years. She studied MA, M.Phil in MANUU, and currently pursuing PhD in Urdu from Osmania University.

Reading Jeelani Bano’s short stories By Elahe Hiptoola , Rajaa Farhan and Ramsha Farhan.

Elahé Hiptoola is a Film Producer with award winning films like Iqbal, Dor and Dhanak to her credit. She is also one of the founders of Lamakaan.

Rajaa is a young photographer and Assistant Manager at Lamakaan.

Ramsha studies liberal arts at the Azim Premji University in Bangalore.

Ashhar Farhan will read from Anees Ayesha’s new book. “Main ne yeh jaana” – is an unprecedented transliterated introduction to Urdu poetry

Organizer
Lamakaan An Open Cultural Space

Kisi Aur Ka Sapna Play

Kisi Aur Ka Sapna
Play
1.5 hrs

December 20, 2019 8:00 pm Friday

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Sutradhar presents ‘Kisi Aur Ka Sapna’- It is the story of five actors rehearsing a script found in a garbage bin. The play traverses through different eras in history and politics, using the journey to display the various shades of a theatre actor’s life. The conflict between acting and reality, different interpretations of an idea, ‘does a script really need an actor?’ etc are just some of the issues the play deals with.

Organizer
Sutradhar Theatre Group

TM POTLE

TM POTLE
Play
0.5 hrs

December 19, 2019 8:00 pm Thursday

TM POTLE stands for The Missing Pieces of Your Tiny Little Egos. The play revolves around a theatre actor who is frustrated about her director being very strict. In this monologue, Simran Kaur, who is playing the lead, will have various shifts of emotions. She is struggling with the dialogues that her director has thrown at her, which are entirely absurd. She is constantly dealing with her inner turmoil. As the play progresses, we see that Simran is losing her mind. She sits and a sudden shift into the inner mind would reveal that she is not only the actor but also the director who has issues with her other-self. The play has explicit content (profanity).

Organizer
Amaan Ahmad (The Unknown Pen)

The Unknown Pen is a theatre group based in Hyderabad. It was initially founded as a content writing platform and also a platform where the artists could showcase their original and unique work, by Amaan Ahmad in the year 2009. We are the first theatre group in the city that works majorly on Original plays that belong to the genre of ‘Theatre of the Absurd’. The first play produced by The Unknown Pen is called ‘Skepticism’, a dark psychological play that involves the elements of Surrealism, Existentialism, and Absurdism. Our vision is to revive the theatre culture across the country. Our plays are known for the depth of their content. We aim to stir the minds of the people in terms of philosophy and art.

Tracks movie screening

Tracks movie screening
Movies
2.5 hrs

December 18, 2019 7:30 pm Wednesday

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Accompanied only by her faithful dog and four camels, an Australian (Mia Wasikowska) satisfies her craving for solitude by embarking on a solo trip across the desert from Alice Springs to the Indian Ocean.

Organizer
Cinephiles Film Club

The Final Cut

The Final Cut
Play
1.5 hrs

December 17, 2019 8:00 pm Tuesday

The Final Cut, an original play written by Hyderabad based writer – Krishna Ahir, revolves around the theme of bullying as a student and its impact on the mental health of the student. The play is a unique blend of drama, poetry and live painting. This will be the Premiere show of the play. Cast: Harshad Fad, Devika Das, Arun Kumar, Kastury, Akanksha, Prajwal Playwright: Krishna Ahir Backstage: Sindhuja, Chandra

Organizer
Navarasa

Mentored by Devika Das, Navarasa is the theatre wing of a youth group in Hyderabad, The Nation’s Rock Beat. The team works towards promoting fresh creative talent and aims to perform experimental plays and educate the audience through powerful scripts

Barking Dog

Barking Dog
Play
1.0 hrs

December 15, 2019 8:00 pm Sunday

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Barking Dog is a Hindi sit-com written by Vishal Vijay, inspired by The Zoo Story by American playwright Edward Albee. The play explores themes of isolation, loneliness, miscommunication as anathematization, social disparity and dehumanization in a materialistic world. The story, in simplest terms, is about how a man who is consumed with loneliness starts up a conversation with another man on a bench in a Park and eventually forces him to participate in an act of violence.

Passes – 200/- Contact # 9700074079

Organizer
kissago Theatre

Kissago Theatre Kissago- The Storyteller, is an initiative that endevors to make the self meets the ‘otherself’ The stage is where, the group belives, the magic unfolds; a neutral territory where illusion meets reality and vice versa. Kissago was formed in september 2014 and since then the group has successfully staged more than 25 productions across India. Few of the most successful plays were Patkatha (Poetic Play), Sakharam Binder, Dakghar, Kale ghode ki naal ki Angoothi, Jee huzoor, Kamla, Ilhaam, Mandir mein Hadtaal, Gagan damama bajyo, Chuhal to name a few.Currently the group is led by Jay Jha who is an Actor,Director and Casting Director who aims to build, develop, inculcate and motivate the creative factor of his group members and revolutionize theatre not only in Hyderabad but also in other cities.