Thursday, February 16, 2012

Dastangoi at LSR

Tales from the classic Tilism-e-Hoshruba as part of Dastangoi performance tomorrow Friday, February 17, 2012 at 4pm at Lady Shriram College, Kailash Colony, Delhi.

Directed by Mahmood Farooqui
Performers: Manu Sikander Dhingra & Nadeem Shah

Sunday, February 12, 2012

Dastangoi at Kala Ghoda Arts Festival 2012

A Dastangoi performance tonight at the Kala Ghoda Arts Festival:

9:00 to 10:00pm, Sun, Feb 12
David Sassoon Library Gardens
Kala Ghoda, Fort
Mumbai

Directed by: Mahmood Farooqui
Performed by: Usman Sheikh & Rana Pratap Senger

Be there and enjoy the tales from Tilism-e-Hoshruba!

Thursday, February 09, 2012

Dastan-e-Sedition in Jabalpur


Dastangoi revisits Jabalpur, MP. Dastan-e-Sedition and Aazar Jadoo's tale from Tilism-e-Hoshruba will be performed at:

Shaheed Smarak
Gol Bazaar, Jabalpur

at 7.00pm on Thursday, February 09, 2012.

Directed by: Mahmood Farooqui
Performers: Rana Pratap Singh, Usman Sheikh, Rajesh Kumar

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