Remembering Tapan Sinha T he quintessential Bengali filmmaker, both in spirit and world-view, Tapan Sinha is unquestionably one of India’s leading directors. In a long and prolific career spanning almost five decades, his works have varied in theme and genre, but his style and aesthetics have remained constant. A storyteller-par-excellence, his films are also brilliantly crafted in terms of structure and technique. Eschewing experimentation, he has striven to deliver films which have been commercially viable yet aesthetically pleasing, socially relevant and thought provoking. To be inaugurated today at 6 pm by Tarun Majumdar and Soumitra Chattopadhyay, Flash Back, Flash Forward: In Tribute to Tapan Sinha is a five-day festival on the legendary filmmaker. Besides the screening of some of Sinha’s landmark films, it features documentaries and discussions on him, along with an exhibition (till June 6, 3 pm - 7 pm) of memorabilia on the master’s life and works with rare photographs, film stills, film posters and personal belongings. To be screened today: A Noble Creator (documentary by Samir Banerjee) and Aarohi. June 3: Zindagi Zindagi; June 4: Louha Kapat; June 5: Aandhar Periye; June 6: Kshudhita Pashan, Jagadish Chandra Bose (documentary by Tapan Sinha) and Hansuli Bnaker Upakatha. Event: A festival of films, discussions and exhibition on Tapan Sinha When: June 2 - 6; 6 pm Where: Gorky Sadan

Art

Till August 1 (except Sundays and public holidays) at CIMA Gallery; Mondays: 3 pm - 7 pm, Tuesdays - Saturdays: 2 pm - 7 pm: Summer Show 2009. Featuring works by Rashmi Bagchi Sarkar, Sumitro Basak, Shreyasi Chatterjee, Jogen Chowdhury, Sougata Das, Anita Gopal, Farhad Hussain, Paresh Maity, Ganesh Pyne, Satyajit Roy, Suhas Roy, Lalu Prosad Shaw and many other artists from across India. June 2 - 7 at Birla Academy of Art & Culture; 3 pm - 8 pm: Chitri O Bhaskar Gosthi presents an exhibition of paintings and sculptures by Avnandan Barua, Biswanath Chanda, Chandrasekhar Basu Majumdar, Dilip Paul, Dinesh Gain, Goutam Sarma, Jiten Roy, Prithwis Sen, Subuddha Ghosh and Tusar Kanti Pradhan. Till June 5 at Academy of Fine Arts, South Gallery ‘A’; 3 pm - 8 pm: Identity — an exhibition of drawings and paintings by Sanjoy Ghosh, Sanjay Sen Gupta and Amit Kumar Dey. Till June 5 at Masters Collection Art Gallery; 11 am - 6 pm: Horizon: Inspiring future talents in Art! Showcasing works by Sarbani Ganguly, Joydeep Chatterjee, Supriyo Das, Bharat Das, Dipankar Chanda, Susanta Chowdhury, Polly Basu (Das), Jonaki Pal, Arup Lodh, Soumya Kishore Chakraborty and Subir Dey. Till June 6 at Akar Prakar, P 238 Hindustan Park, #2464 2617; 2 pm - 7 pm: Recent works by Shyamal Dutta Ray awardees Sandip Roy and Subir Dey. Till June 12 (except Sunday) at Ganges Art Gallery, 33 Jatin Das Road, #2465 3212; 11 am - 7 pm: Outsiders Within, recent works of Arghya Priya Majumdar and Mahjabin Majumdar. Till June 13 (except Sunday) at Galerie 88, 28B Shakespeare Sarani, 11 am - 7 pm, Mondays: 2 pm - 7 pm: Recent works by Mustak Khan Chowdhury. Till June 16 (except Mondays) at Shree Art Gallery, 11 Gurusaday Road, Kusum Apartment, Flat no. 61, #30222040, 30535982; 3 pm - 7 pm: An exhibition of the works by Bappa Halder. Till June 30 (except Sundays) at Tejas Gallery, 11 Mayfair Road, #98300 49825; 12.30 pm - 7.30 pm: Paintings by young, upcoming artists Atish Mukherjee, Arunava Mondal, Avijit Mukherjee, Ranjan Mukhopadhyay, Sanjay Kr Samanta, Tanay Paul, Bibek Pal, Goutam Sarkar and others.

TALK

June 2 at Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, Shivananda Hall; 6 pm: Pradyot Kumar Mukhopadhyay will speak in Bengali on Dharma, Darshan O Vijnan. June 2 at Ramakrishna Vedanta Math, 19B Raja Rajkrishna Street; 7 pm: Swami Atmabodhananda will discuss in Bengali Sri Sri Mayer Katha. June 2 at Ramakrishna Math, Baranagar; 7.15 pm: Discourse on Sri Sri Ramakrishna Punthi by Dr Bhupendra Nath Sil.

PERFORMING ARTS

June 2 at Jibanananda Sabhaghar; 6 pm: Muktak presents Rabindra-Nazrul Sandhya, an evening of recitation from Tagore and Nazrul by Shubhra Basu, Amitava Bagchi, Geeta Dey, Basudev Nandy, Pradip Das, Anwesha Bagchi, Samarendra Nath Choudhury, Sumit Chattopadhyay, Pranami Basak, Aloka Kundu, Roshni Bhowmick, Debjyoti Das, Aditya Basu, Poulami Ghosh, Arnab Dutta, Shatarupa Kundu and Dhrubajyoti Das. Also, songs by Sudeshna Das. June 3 at Rabindra Sadan; 5 pm: Darpani presents Nivedanam and Maayaa, a re-telling of Tagore’s Mayar Khela. Conceived and choreographed by Arnab Bandyopadhyay. June 3 at Girish Mancha; 6 pm: Nrittyangana presents an evening of Odissi dance along with a choreographic number, Swadesh - Mera Bapu Mera Desh. Direction: Maya Bhattacharya. June 4 at Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, Vivekananda Hall; 6 pm: A sursringar recital by Joydeep Ghosh, with Subhen Chatterjee on the tabla. June 6 at Weavers Studio Centre for the Arts, 94 Ballygunge Place, #2460 4245; 6.30 pm: Krishnamay — based on explanations and substantiated with dance renderings, from Geet Govindam, by Odissi danseuse Sanchita Bhattacharya.

BOOK LAUNCH

June 2 at Oxford Bookstore, 17 Park Street; 6.30 pm: Launch of Jesus of Calcutta by Nirendranath Chakravorty and All about Umbrellas by Prabal Kumar Basu. The books will be released by Sunil Gangopadhyay, to be followed by a panel discussion with media personalities Parnav Mukherjee and Rita Bhimani.

DRAMA

Till June 4 at Sisir Mancha; 6.30 pm: A festival of plays as part of Mukhomukhi 13. Featuring Gunadharer Asukh (today), Dharabahik (June 3) and Eai Ghum (June 4). June 2 at Academy of Fine Arts; 6.30 pm: Hattamela presents Hetamgarey Hoi Choi, directed by Gurudas Bandyopadhyay. June 2 at Madhusudan Mancha; 6.30 pm: Renaissance presents its latest production, Kaal Kothri (in Hindi), written by Swadesh Dipak and directed by Aloke Chakravorty. June 2 at Tapan Theatre; 6.30 pm: Niva Arts presents Astaraag. Direction & acting: Ashok Chattopadhyay. June 2 at Gyan Manch; 7 pm: Exit (in English, Hindi and Bengali), written and directed together by Safdar Rahman and Vikrant Dadawala, is a performance, partly on screen and partly on stage, by a group of young students. June 3 at Academy of Fine Arts; 6.30 pm: Gandhar will stage Kachher Manush, based on a play by Dr Shirish Atawala. Translated into Bengali by Kamal Sanyal and Bijoylakshmi Barman, who also play the lead along with Debshankar Haldar. Direction: Gautam Haldar, filmmaker. June 3 at Uttam Mancha; 6.30 pm: Rashbehari Srishti presents two short plays, Shimul O Balai and Aakashi Aakanksha. Drama & direction: Amit Sarkar. June 6 at Girish Mancha; 6.30 pm: Ajnatobass — Nandikar’s latest production, directed by Sumanta Gangopadhyay. Directorial adviser: Rudraprasad Sengupta. June 6 at Academy of Fine Arts; 3 pm: Rang Roop will stage Jalchhabi. Direction: Seema Mukhopadhyay. June 7 at Gyan Manch; 6.30 pm: Proscenium presents Badal Sircar’s Sari Raat (in Hindi). Translated into Hindi by Dr Pratibha Agarwal, the play is directed by Sheo Kr Jhunjhunwala.

WORKSHOP

June 2 - 12 at Minerva Theatre, Beadon Street; 9.30 am - 5 pm: Sayak, with financial support from the Union ministry of woman and child development, is organising a summer theatre camp for students (6 yrs to 14 yrs) where they learn to create and perform a play and develop skills in acting, dance, music, puppet, etc. from professional theatre personalities Manoj Mitra, Suresh Dutta, Niranjan Goswami, Bijoylakshmi Barman, Debasish Majumdar and others. There is no entry fee. Details at 9830716207, 9830503108, 25558413. n Till June 5 at Satyajit Ray Auditorium (ICCR), 10 am - 1.30 pm & at Padatik, 3 pm - 7 pm: Choreography workshop, organised by Padatik in collaboration with Sangeet Natak Akademi, under the guidance of experts Padmini Chettur (Chennai), Kumudini Lakhia (Ahmedabad), Madhavi Mudgal (Delhi), Anita Ratnam (Chennai), Ratan Thiyam (Imphal), Sadanand Menon (Chennai), Dasrath Patel (Ahmedabad), Dr Sunil Kothari (Delhi), Gautam Bhattacharya (Delhi), Ramli Ibrahim (Malaysia) and Uttara Asha Coorlawala (USA). June 2 - 5 at Nehru Children’s Museum; 2 pm - 5 pm: Workshop on human figure drawing (for the age group 7 yrs to 18 yrs) to be conducted by senior faculty members of the painting department of Nehru Children’s Museum. June 2 - 5 at Nehru Children’s Museum; 3 pm - 6 pm: Workshop on Bharata Natyam - Evolution of Mudra (for the age group 12 yrs to 18 yrs) to be conducted by Suvasish Dutta. June 3 - 5 at Nehru Children’s Museum; 2 pm - 5 pm: Workshop on craft & creation (for the age group 5 yrs to 8 yrs) to be conducted by Anindita Mitra and Moutushi Roy. June 3 - 6 at Nehru Children’s Museum; 3 pm - 7 pm: Workshop on folk and creative forms (for the age group 6 yrs to 18 yrs) to be conducted by Dhiman Sankar. Enrollment details at 2223 3517/6878/1551. June 4 - 13 at Rabindra Sadan terrace; 10 am - 5 pm: Shinjan Nrityalaya is organising workshops on Odissi dance (to be conducted by Aloka Kanungo, Sharmila Mukherjee and Arnab Bandopadhyaya), theatre (to be conducted by Usha Ganguli), mime (to be conducted by Niranjan Goswami) and light designing (to be conducted by Kanishka Sen). For further details, call 94330 38127 or 2464 4141. June 6 - 8 at 25 Hindusthan Road, 2nd floor: Nupurchhanda Ghosh will conduct workshops on songs of Atulprosad, Rajanikanto and Dwijendralal. For registration, call 9830873474, 32940041, 24641040.All those who wish events to be included in this column should write not less than a week ahead to: Time out, The Telegraph,6, Prafulla Sarkar Street, Calcutta-700 001; Fax: 2234-8244

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