Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Some very interesting reviews of Peepli Live-one by a woman who had seen Dastangoi in NY

http://www.smh.com.au/news/entertainment/film/peepli-live/2010/08/11/1281206315049.html?page=2

http://www.fullhyderabad.com/profile/movies/3734/2/peepli-live-movie-review

http://news.avstv.com/2010/07/23/peepli-live-satire-with-a-soul/

Friday, September 03, 2010

DASTANGOI TRAVELS IN SEPTEMBER

This month we travel to four cities with Dastangoi.
- 7th of September we perform at a school at Benaras, the details of which I shall post later.

BANARAS (jo maza banaras men, na paris men na faras men)

7th Sep, 6 pm. Auditorium, Rajghat Besant School, Rajghat Fort, Banaras.
Performers include Rasika Duggal and Rajesh Kumar.

- 12th we travel to Calcutta
- 19th Hyderabad [Prakriti Foundation, Chennai and Park Hotel]
- 25th at Bangalore as a fundraiser for the organisation, the India Foundation for the Arts, which has been funding some of Dastangoi's activities.

Calcutta
12th Sep, at 7 pm at Galaxy, The Park, 17 Park Street, Kolkatta.
For invites pl contact Mira at prakritifoundation@gmail.com

Hyderabad

19th Sep, at 7 pm at Trillion Ballroom, The Park, 22 Rajbhawan Road, Somajguda, Hyderabad
For invites pl contact Mira at prakritifoundation@gmail.com
Performers include Rana Senger and Sheikh Usman

Bangalore

Chowdiah Memorial Hall – 7.30 pm, Saturday, September 25, 2010
For entry for the performance through donations of Rs.1000/- and Rs.500/- call Joyce at 2341 4681/82/83 between 10 am to 5 pm Monday to Friday or email joyce@indiaifa.org

Friday, August 27, 2010

MAFA at Doon

Mahmood Farooqui returns to his alma matter, Doon School, Dehradun for a performance of Dastangoi on Saturday, August 28, 2010. We're in for some experience.

Cheers

Sunday, August 15, 2010

Bollywood and the middle class nation

Mahmood wrote this piece fours years ago for Himal.

http://www.himalmag.com/read.php?id=2358

Tuesday, August 03, 2010

DASTANGOI AT NATIONAL SCHOOL OF DRAMA, NEW DELHI

Performance of

Mehtab Jadu, the magical talking birds and Amar Aiyyyar

From, the Tilism-e Hoshruba,

by Danish Husain and Manu Sikander Dhingra

Thursday, the 5th August at 2.30 pm at NSD, Bahawalpur House, Bhagwan Das Road, N. Delhi.

Presented by Mahmood Farooqui

The Mentor and Founder of Dastangoi, S. R. Faruqi may attend.

All are welcome.