Chimeras - a play based on the Shashi Deshpande's short stories

CHIMERAS

Chimeras is an adaptation of three of Shashi Deshpande's famous short stories. The stories revolve around three popular figures in mythology: Draupadi, Kunti and Sita. Interspersed with dance and live music the show is a lively look at the epics through the eyes of a woman.

The duration of the play is 90 mins . The performance will be followed by an open discussion with the audience.

Date : July 19th and July 20th
Time : 7:30pm
Venue : Alliance Francaise de Bangalore (Near Cant Railway station, Vasant Nagar).

Tickets available at the venue and at Landmark (Fourm).

Tickets : Rs 100
Donor passes: Rs 500
For Tickets:
call 98860 49998 / 98455 36182
email geteve.in@gmail.

CHIMERAS

Yay!! Its finally here... the play we've been waiting for sooo long!

A Thousand Dreams....

It continues to bother me and I guess it always will. Women portrayed in Indian Cinema. I've wondered why it continues to be so, why for easy laughs, the pretty woman with an active sex drive, is portrayed as a bimbette who flutters her eyelashes and goes oooh what are doing, but enjoys it all the same. And she'd be the woman in the movie who'll have to wear all the short skirts and deep necks, not the good heroine.

And then I found this gem of an insight. Sudhir Mishra, the creator of Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi was asked: So you believe that there’s still hope for intelligent cinema?

And he said:
"I do but most of our distributors don’t trust the audiences enough. There’s a latent obscene eve teaser in many of these traders who believes that all human beings are like him. Consequently, they are only interested in churning out crap."

Hmmmmm....