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A slice of the Diaspora
Udayan Prasad, whose ``Brothers In Trouble" was screened at the British Council film festival recently, considers himself lucky to have the benefit of two cultures. The director, as he tells CHITRA MAHESH, has a penchant for drama.
Cinema
Flirting with adolescence
THERE AREN'T many good coming-of-age Indian films out there, are there? Offhand, I can only think of: Satyajit Ray's "Aparajito", Adoor Gopalakrishnan's "Anantharam", Balu Mahendra's "Azhiyadha Kolangal", Monsoor Khan's "Jo Jeeta Wohi Sikander" ...


And now it's southward ho!
Amisha Patel enters South with the Vijay starrer, "Geethai". SREEDHAR PILLAI talks to her.

Film Review

  • Issue powerfully treated
  • Packaged with skill

    On Location
    When disaster strikes...
    HERE IS a film with the Gujarat earthquake as the backdrop. Woven around the disaster is a love story told by Kolliwood Creation Pvt. Ltd. The shooting for the film, ``Indru Mudhal" was held in the VGP Golden Beach resort. A marriage of the ...

    Music
    Mystical and melodious
    BAUL MUSIC from Bengal. Its rendering is most dream like in a smooth, unending motion. Bharatanatyam from Tamil Nadu a dance that is mathematical, precise and geometrical in its execution danced to visually interpret the lyrics sung in the clear ...
    Ruled by manodharma
    IN HER concert for Nadopasana, Gayatri Venkataraghavan's picturisation of Begada and Bhairavi brought out fully her vocal ability. The clever use of the gana-naya technique stimulated the direction of her manodharma. She transferred this quality ...
    Divine music of the Oothukkadu poet
    CHITRAVINA maestro N. Ravikiran has done a lot of research on Oothukkadu Venkata Kavi's kritis. In his vocal concert for Hamsadhwani, he brought to the fore the beauty and spiritualism of the great bilingual composer, and divine preceptor, whose ...

    Theatre
    Life in three dimensions
    The life of a 92-year old woman seen at three different stages — ELIZABETH ROY reviews ``Three Tall Women," an adaptation of Edward Albee's play.

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