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Attend: Sawani Shende performs in Mumbai

Vocalist Sawani Shende will lend her rich voice to rain themed ragas this evening at the NCPA. Do not miss.
by The Editors | editor@themetrognome.in

The rainy season is richly celebrated in Hindustani music. While there are ragas specific to the monsoon, semi-classical genres of thumri and allied forms such as kajri, sawan, jhoola also express myriad shades of emotions, from pain of separation to the joy of union with the beloved, in the months of Sawan and Bhadon.

Born in a musical family, Sawani Shende has trained in classical and semi-classical music under Kusum and Sanjeev Shende, her grandmother and father, respectively. She also received guidance from vocalist Veena Sahasrabuddhe. Sawani’s music is an aesthetic blend of Kirana and the Gwalior Gharanas. Having made a debut at the age of 10, her musical journey is replete with performances and awards. She has a number of commercial albums to her credit, and has sung for several Marathi films and TV serials.

This evening, she performs in ‘Meghranjani’, with a song selection picked from traditional repertories of classical and semi-classical compositions celebrating the splendour of the rains.

Head to the NCPA at 6.30 pm. 

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Attend: 20th European Film Festival comes to Mumbai

21 award-winning European films will be showcased at two south Mumbai venues starting today, courtesy the 20th European Film Festival.
by The Editors | editor@themetrognome.in

The 20th European Union Film Festival starts in Mumbai today, and everyone’s invited.

The Age of CannibalsHead to the NCPA and Alliance Francaise Auditorium to watch the films of your choice. As many as 21 award-winning latest European films will showcase different genres of European cinema over 10 days. The event is presented by the Delegation of the European Union to India, embassies of member states of the European Union, presented in Mumbai by the German Consulate, Goethe-Institut/Max Mueller Bhavan Mumbai and Alliance Fracaise.

The festival will open today at the Little Theatre at NCPA, in collaboration with NCPA. Refer to the schedule below for timings and films.

Film schedule: Little Theatre, NCPA (May 8, 2015 to May 12, 2015)

8.5.2015 5.00 pm – 5.45 pm
Reception and Opening		 5.45 pm
Germany – The Age of Cannibals (Zeit der Kannibalen) (93 min)		 8.00 pm
Latvia-Pizzas(63 m)
9.5.2015 3.30 pm
Greece-A Palace Called Home (108  m)		 6.00 pm
Bulgaria-The Foreigner (94 m)		 8.00 pm
Cyprus-Committed (85 m)
10.5.2015 3.30 pm
Belgium-Go, Eddy!  (97 m)		 6.00 pm
Czech-The Don Juans (102 m)		 8.00 pm
Finland-The Boy Upside Down (130 m)
11.5.2015 6.00 pm
Denmark-The Keeper of Lost Causes (100 m)		 8.00 pm
Croatia-Vis-A-Vis (77 m)
12.5.2015 6.00 pm
Portugal-A Woman’s revenge (140 m)

Alliance Francaise Auditorium (May 13 to May 17, 2015)

13.5.2015 6.30 pm
France- Jappeloup (130 m)
14.5.2015 6.30 pm
Estonia – Living Images (135 m)
15.5.2015 3.30 pm
Sweden-The Last Sentence (124 m)		 6.30 pm
Poland  – Ida – (82 m)
16.5.2015 12.00 pm
Republic of Slovakia:  Candidate (106 m)		 3.00 pm
Hungary-The Ambassador To Bern (76 m)		 6.00 pm
Spain: Balcanieves(Snowhite)(105 m)
17.5.2015 12.00 pm
Luxembourg-The Symmetry of Butterfly(100 m)		 3.00 pm
Slovenia-Shanghai Gypsy (124 m)		 6.00 pm
Netherlands-Soof (96 m)

All films are in original language with English subtitles. Entry is free, first-come-first-served.

(Pictures courtesy

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Engage your child this summer

The NCPA hosts a range of activities for children in Mumbai to spend their vacations learning various arts and crafts.
by The Editors | editor@themetrognome.in

Wondering what to do with your restless, bored child this summer? Channel his or her inner creativity through a series of fun activities at the NCPA.

Since 2010, the NCPA decided to initiate a ‘Summer Fiesta’ as a means to reach out to children and offer them an exciting way to spend their vacations.
Over the years, children have enjoyed a series of plays and films picked for them, as well as a range of engaging and creativity-enhancing workshops in theatre, dance, photography, puppetry, art, craft, creative writing, poetry, animation film-making and many others with masters in their fields.

This year…

The 2015 edition of Summer Fiesta offers children an exciting way to spend their holidays. It is a month long festival that encourages their development through the performing arts. (See the event schedule here).

Children can look forward to workshops on acting, photography and craft, among others, apart from participating in singing, dancing and debate contests.

Look up booking details here. The fiesta has started on May 1, 2015.

(Picture courtesy NCPA, Mumbai. Image used is a file picture)

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NGO children perform for live audiences

NCPA’s outreach initiative for NGO-supported children in Mumbai will feature various kids’ stage performances in front of a live audience.
by The Editors | editor@themetrognome.in

It is always a joy to see young children performing songs, dances and other acts. Today, you will get the chance to see a lot of great shows put up by children, at the NCPA.

This multi-genre,  multilingual event will feature performances by young children from different NGOs based in Mumbai. As a part of the NCPA’s outreach initiatives, these talented performers will get the opportunity to perform on a professional stage in front of a live audience. The event includes a range of wide performances from group singing, a puppet show featuring the Panchatantra tales, a Judo pyramid and dance performances in the styles of Bollywood, folk music, Odissi and Gotipua depicting the Dashavataar from Geet Govinda.

Talent from NGOs such as the Bal Jeevan Trust, Apun Ka Club, Mumbai Mobile Creches, E.A.R., Aseema and Seva Sadan and others will be showcased as a part of this show.

Admission for all on a first-come-first-served basis. Head to the Experimental Theatre, NCPA, at 3 pm.

(Picture courtesy ncpamumbai.com. Image is a file picture)

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Film screening: ‘My name is Salt’

Watch the critically acclaimed and multiple award winning documentary ‘My name is Salt’ this evening; being screened at the NCPA.
by The Editors | editor@themetrognome.in

A powerful story well told, has an impact like no other.

This evening, the critically-acclaimed and much-feted documentary film, My Name Is Salt, will be screened at the NCPA in collaboration with the Indian Documentary Producers’ Assocation (IDPA). The film is a sensitive, searing look at the many families who come to Kutch to extract salt, for a long eight months with the harsh sun beating down on them.

Describes a blurb on the film’s website, ‘The desert extends endlessly – flat, grey, relentless. There is not a tree or blade of grass or rock. But there is one thing in abundance: salt. Salt is everywhere, lying just beneath the cracked, baked surface of the earth. This is the Little Rann of Kutch, 5000 sq kms of saline desert. And for eight months of the year, the salt people live here – laboriously extracting salt from this desolate landscape. They have been doing this for generations.

Year after year, they migrate from their villages, 40,000 of them, to live on this bleak land without water, electricity or provisions. Arriving just after the monsoon, Sanabhai and his family will live here from September until April. Their nearest neighbour is a kilometre away. They communicate by flashing mirrors in the sunlight. Sanabhai’s wife Devuben walks across the bare, trackless desert to chop firewood. They buy the family’s water supply from a private tanker that comes once a week…’

Watch the trailer of the film here:

 

The film is the journey of Chhanabhai and his family who live without water, electricity or provisions for eight months of the year – tirelessly extracting salt from this desolate landscape. Under the blinding glare of the sun, they work on the salt fields until large crystals have formed. Their labour is rhythmic, a dance that mirrors the dance of the mirages on the burning horizon.

Written and directed by Farida Pacha, the film has won several awards at international film festivals.

Admission is on a first-come-first-served basis. NCPA members will get preferential seating till 6.20 pm. The film begins at 6.30 pm and is 92 minutes long.

(Picture courtesy mynameissalt.com)

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Watch: ‘Begin Again’

The 2013 film features Keira Knightley and Mark Ruffalo in leading roles; music and song writing form the film’s backdrop.
by The Editors | editor@themetrognome.in

PVR and NCPA are launching their ‘Director’s Rare’ programme from today, a new monthly series of films picked by PVR.

The 2013 film Begin Again, an American musical comedy-drama film written and directed by John Carney and starring Keira Knightley and Mark Ruffalo, will play tonight at the NCPA’s Little Theatre. In the film, Knightley plays a singer-songwriter who is discovered by a struggling record label executive (Ruffalo) and collaborates with him to produce an album recorded in public locations all over New York City. Gretta’s world takes a turn for the better when Dan, a disgraced record label executive, stumbles upon her performing on an East Village stage and is captivated by her raw talent.

After the success of his 2007 musical film Once, Carney wrote the script for Begin Again in 2010 and employed Gregg Alexander to compose most of the film’s music. With an US$8 million budget, production began in July 2012 with filming taking place in various locations around New York City. The film premiered in September 2013 at the Toronto International Film Festival and was released theatrically on June 27, 2014, in conjunction with the release of the film’s soundtrack. It has grossed over $63 million worldwide and received mostly positive reviews from critics. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song.

The screening is free and open to all on a first come first seated basis. The film begins at 6.30 pm.

(Picture courtesy tribecafilm.com)

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