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A tale of inordinate, unnatural desires, Pancham Vaidic?s latest production, Chandali, provides an insight into the hidden depths of the human psyche. Trying to uncover reasons for human obsession, it highlights the ruin and devastation that unbridled expression of extreme emotion and passion can bring. In the play, Prakriti, a young girl of humble origins, yearns for the love of Ananda, a Buddhist monk. In spite of being warned by her mother against stepping over the limits of sinfulness, she urges her mother to use her occult powers in order to win him over. Thus forced, the mother binds and drags the noble monk like a beast to her daughter. Yet, Prakriti?s desires remain far from being fulfilled. The play culminates with her self-realisation that her restlessness is in vain and her excessive thirst for love is insatiable. Performed and directed by Saoli Mitra.
Event: Play in Bengali, Chandali, produced by Pancham Vaidic
When: Tomorrow at 10.15 am
Where: Academy of Fine Arts
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Art
Till May 30 at Academy of Fine Arts; 3 pm - 8 pm: Exhibition of paintings and sculptures by members of Environmental Art, Calcutta.
Till May 31 at Academy of Fine Arts; 3 pm - 8 pm: Tryst With Existence, paintings and drawings by Sumana Ghosh.
Till May 31 (Sunday by appointment only) at Gallery Katayun, 4A Auckland Sq uare, Flat 21; 3 pm - 7 pm: Paintings by 39 artists of the sub-continent.
Till June 3 at Gallery Kanishka?s, 2/1 Hindustan Road; 11 am - 8 pm: Faces & Verses, sketches and poetry by Arthur Brendon Cardozo.
Till June 6 (except Sundays) at Akar Prakar, P 238 Hindustan Park; 3 pm - 8 pm: Steps That Seek, paintings by Ganesh Haloi.
Till June 13 (except Sundays) at Gallery Sanskriti; 11 am - 8 pm: Tribute, paintings by Shyamal Dutta Ray.
Till June 15 (weekdays only) at Masters Collection Art Gallery, G5/G7 Malayalay Apts, 3 Woodburn Park Road; 11 am - 7 pm: Touch of Art, featuring works of Suhas Roy, Prokash Karmakar, Sanatan Dinda, Subrata Gangopadhyay, Suman Roy, Sekhar Kar, Beena Pradhan and others.
drama
May 27 at Madhusudan Mancha; 5 pm: Choopkatha will stage Mrs Soriano. Dir: Dolly Basu.
May 27 at Academy of Fine Arts; 6.30 pm: Dwandwik presents Ekale Ekalabya. Drama and direction: Achintya Chowdhury.
May 28 at Girish Mancha; 6.30 pm: Nandikar presents Fyodor Dostoyevsky?s Maramiya Mon. Dir: Goutam Halder.
PERFORMING ARTS
May 27 at Sri Aurobindo Bhavan, 8 Shakespeare Sarani; 5.30 pm: An evening of reading, recitation and songs of Tagore.
May 27 at Gyan Manch; 6 pm: Mayur Lalit presents an Odissi recital and a dance ballet Raas Lila. Composition and choreography: Debomitra Sengupta.
photographs
Till May 29 at Kumar Ashutosh Institution (Main), Dum Dum; 5 pm - 9 pm: Srijan presents its 3rd annual exhibition of photographs.
talk
May 27 at Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, Shivananda Hall; 6 pm: Samiran Chandra Chakraborty will speak in Bengali on Veda Parikrama.
May 27 at Ramakrishna Vedanta Math, 19 A&B Raja Rajkrishna Street; 7 pm: Swami Paramatmananda will speak in Bengali on Yog O Tahar Abhyas.
EXHIBITION
Till May 27 at Finesse, 11/1B New Road, Alipore; 11 am - 7 pm: Sujata Sarawgi presents hand-woven sarees and suit-pieces of Bihar and Madhya Pradesh and block prints from Rajasthan and Bengal with surface embellishments.
panel discussion
May 27 at Oxford Bookstore; 6.30 pm: Oxford Bookstore hosts a panel discussion with eminent literary and film critics on Dan Brown?s bestseller, The Da Vinci Code.
quiz
June 3 at Mahatma Aswini Datta Memorial Centre, 94/2 Park Street; 3 pm: World Quiz Championship. Registration from 2 pm. For details, call Goutam Ghosh at #9830044093 or Souvik Basu at #9831445329. Or mail to gautam08@gmail.com.
kids? fest
Till May 28 at Bharatiyam, IB-201 Salt Lake; 3.30 pm: EZCC and Cine Central host the 6th International Children?s Film Festival, with daily screening of children?s films.
Till June 4 at Crossword Bookstore: Annual Children?s Summer Fest with 12 fun-filled events. For enquiries, call #22836501-5.
story-reading
May 28 at Emami Landmark; 5 pm: Katha Times, a story-reading session by Storytellers. A tale from Panchatantra ? The Crows and the Black Snake, will be read.
workshop
May 28 - June 5 at Sangeetangan, 50B Haldarpara Road; 11 am - 8 pm: Aloka Kanungo will conduct an Odissi dance workshop with theory and practical classes for professional dancers, advanced and intermediate students.
May 29 - June 2 at Ananda Shankar Centre for Performing Arts, 11F Palm Avenue; 5.30 pm - 7 pm: Tanusree Shankar will conduct a special workshop on Shankar technique of New Dance. For enquiries, call #22475997 (2 pm - 7 pm).
May 30 - June 3 at Emami Landmark; 10.30 am - 12.30 pm: Fun With Paper, a workshop to be conducted by Varsha Sheth and Jinny in which children will learn to make animals, flowers, toys and mosaic art with paper. For enrolment, contact #22822617-9.
reading
May 28 at G.D. Birla Sabhagar; 11 am: Professor P. Lal reads the chronicles of raja-rishis Yayati, Ambarisha, Satabindu, Gaya and Rantideva narrated by Vyasa to life Yudhisthira out of his profound depression over Abhimanyu?s slaughter, in the 329th weekly session of his sloka-by-sloka English transcreation of Vyasa?s Mahabharata.
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