Rangmanch: Nirma Movie & Literature Club

AMBAA: Sankalp MICA, the theatre society at MICA presents its Annual Production to their beloved Ahmedabad audience. This year's Annual Production is a modern retelling of the story of Ambaa from the Mahabharata. It tries to explore how even in today's times these exceptional characters from the great Indian epic are relevant. Ambaa's quest for justice, her helplessness and her revenge gives shape to a fascinating story that shifts from the past world of Kings and kingdoms, to a future in midst of destruction and annihilation. It is a story of love, war and destiny, and the constant human struggle for identity and solace.

HK Auditorium | 11th and 12th November | 8 pm

Tickets-
VIP - 300
Gold - 200

Tickets are available on - https://in.bookmyshow.com/events/ambaa/ET00048847

For discount on bulk requirement, please contact:
Abhishek Khuranna - 9999997452
Mallika Yamdagni -
9873893120

World Theatre Day is celebrated annually on the 27th March by the International Theatre Institute. One of the most important event is the circulation of the World Theatre Day International Message through which at the invitation of ITI, a figure of world stature shares his or her reflections on the theme of Theatre and a Culture of Peace.The 2014 World Theatre Day Message Author is Brett Bailey!

"Wherever there is human society, the irrepressible Spirit of Performance manifests. Under trees in tiny villages, and on high tech stages in global metropolis; in school halls and in fields and in temples; in slums, in urban plazas, community centres and inner-city basements, people are drawn together to commune in the ephemeral theatrical worlds that we create to express our human complexity, our diversity, our vulnerability, in living flesh, and breath, and voice.

We gather to weep and to remember; to laugh and to contemplate; to learn and to affirm and to imagine. To wonder at technical dexterity, and to incarnate gods. To catch our collective breath at our capacity for beauty and compassion and monstrosity. We come to be energized, and to be empowered. To celebrate the wealth of our various cultures, and to dissolve the boundaries that divide us.

Wherever there is human society, the irrepressible Spirit of Performance manifests. Born of community, it wears the masks and the costumes of our varied traditions. It harnesses our languages and rhythms and gestures, and clears a space in our midst. And we, the artists that work with this ancient spirit, feel compelled to channel it through our hearts, our ideas and our bodies to reveal our realities in all their mundanity and glittering mystery.

But, in this era in which so many millions are struggling to survive, are suffering under oppressive regimes and predatory capitalism, are fleeing conflict and hardship; in which our privacy is invaded by secret services and our words are censored by intrusive governments; in which forests are being annihilated, species exterminated, and oceans poisoned: what do we feel compelled to reveal?

In this world of unequal power, in which various hegemonic orders try to convince us that one nation, one race, one gender, one sexual preference, one religion, one ideology, one cultural framework is superior to all others, is it really defensible to insist that the arts should be unshackled from social agendas?

Are we, the artists of arenas and stages, conforming to the sanitized demands of the market, or seizing the power that we have: to clear a space in the hearts and minds of society, to gather people around us, to inspire, enchant and inform, and to create a world of hope and open-hearted collaboration?"

The first ever rendezvous with a book happens when one reads the plot or summary of a book! Rangmanch presents to you first such rendezvous.

The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes

A book to think!!! The story's facade is simple, refined almost to monotony and dependent on the revelation of a secret towards the ending. But what is hidden between the lines is far more chaotic—and likely to leave the reader anxious for days after finishing the book. I loved that the book made me really think about regret, and repentance. It also made me think about the idea that we are always dishonest narrators of our own lives. And the book was very disturbing that it made me think about how easy it is to think you are one kind of person, when you are actually not and how universal human frailty is. The ending was excellent that it left me lost in the lines, sitting there, recollecting all the little pieces of story back together in my mind. And it left me chaotic and disturbed for days after finishing the book.

By Monica Chandil

Book Achievements-
Man Booker Prize (2011) - Nominated
Costa Book Awards (2011) - Nominated

Which movies would you like to see this January?

“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”
― Frederick Douglass
“Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope.”
― Kofi Annan

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RIP David Frost
We remembered him a couple of weeks back when we showcased Frost Nixon

RIP David Frost: The TV Host Who Captured a President | TIME.com David Frost, who died of a heart attack on Aug. 31, was an on-camera natural who gave President Richard Nixon an unofficial public trial

A collection of perfect and magnificent clicks by photographers around the globe !

Frost/Nixon is a 2008 Oscar nominated historical drama film which tells the story behind the Frost/Nixon interviews of 1977. The Watergate scandal was a political scandal in the US in the 1970s and the Nixon administration's attempted a cover-up of its involvement. The scandal eventually led to the resignation of Richard Nixon, the president of the US and was given a clean chit by the new president. David Frost, in a series of interviews, made him confess his involvement in the scandal.

Happy Independence Day :)

Yeh Dosti Hum Nahin Todenge - Todenge Dam Magar Teraa Saatha Naa Chhodenge

Wish you all a very very Happy Friendship day