Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Dastan-e-Chouboli for the 1st Time in Gurgaon


On huge popular demand

The first formal Dastangoi show in Gurgaon

A repeat performance of

Dastan-e Chauboli

Adapted & Dir. Mahmood Farooqui.

Performed by - Danish Husain & Mahmood Farooqui.

Based on the version created by Vijaydan Detha.

Princess Chauboli has vowed that she will only marry a man who can make her speak four times in one night. Seventeen times twenty-four princes have tried and failed and are now rotting in the dungeon grinding fodder for horses. A brave and valiant Thakur, one who shoots 108 arrows through his wife's nose-ring every day, wishes to try his luck. What happens to him? How will Chouboli be won? Containing a story within a story within a story, some of them pan India favorites, Chouboli is a funny, bitter, sarcastic and lyrical take on Indian life. The repeat performance is happening after rave reviews and repeated requests from fans for the same. Tickets available at the Programme desk. An Old World Culture and Lata Bhasin presentation.

7.30pm Sunday, February 12, 2012
Epicentre, Apparel House
Sector 44, Gurgaon, Haryana
Tickets for INR 350.00 and INR 500.00


For online booking: http://in.bookmyshow.com/plays/Chouboli/ET00007630
For Program Desk please call: 0124 - 2715000 / 5100

Friday, January 20, 2012


It is with great pleasure that we invite you to a big milestone in the decade long modern journey of Dastangoi

The launch of DASTANGOI - The Book

in Urdu and Hindi,

by S. R. Faruqi and Shahid Amin

on 6th February, 2012

at Stein Auditorium, IHC at 7 pm,

compiled by Mahmood Farooqui and Mohammed Kazim,

In the chair, Binoo and P. C. Sen,

To be followed by a Dastangoi performance by two debutantes

And then farmaishes

Dastan-e-Sedition: An Audio Link of the Performance at IIC, Delhi


Panini Anand uploads an audio file of our performance at IIC, New Delhi on December 20, 2011 on his blog: Pratirodh

You'll find the link below the pic on the blog.

Thanks

Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Dastan-e-Ghare Baire



Maulana Azad Museum & Happenings
present

Dastan - E - Ghare Baire

presented in the inimitable style of Dastangoi

by Mahmood Farooqui & Danish Husain
Adapted & Directed by Mahmood Farooqui

on Tuesday : 31st January 2012, 6:30pm
at Maulana Azad Museum
5 Ashraf Mistry Lane, Off Ballygunge Circular Rd, Kolkata -19.


Contact :
Ruchira - 9831256730
Anjum - 9831022227

There are no entry tickets for the show.