King of the silver screen Perhaps the only superstar of Bengali cinema and the most popular Bengali film actor ever, Uttam Kumar continues to captivate the imagination of Bengali movie-lovers even today, nearly three decades since he passed away. Uttam Kumar’s hypnotic screen presence, mellow voice, unique charisma and dazzling smile made him not just a heartthrob, a legend of Bengali cinema as well. For the Bengali fraternity, he is undoubtedly a mahanayak (the great hero), the undisputed king of the Bengali silver screen. To mark the matinee idol’s 83rd birth anniversary, Shilpi Samsad presents a programme in aid of needy artistes. Veteran actor Deepti Ray and music great Biman Mukhopadhyay will be felicitated. Also, Mahanayak Uttam Mancha hosts an evening of music and reminiscences in celebration of the evergreen hero’s birthday. Participants in both programmes include his grandchildren along with Supriya Devi, Goutam Ghose, Madhabi Mukhopadhyay, Tapas Paul, Nirmala Misra, Banasree Sengupta, Shatabdi Roy, Chinmoy Roy, Alpana Bandyopadhyay, Sabitri Chattopadhyay, Ramkumar Chattopadhyay, Madhuri Chattopadhyay, Srikanto Acharya, Sreela Majumder, Sreeradha Bandyopadhyay, Kalyani Mondal, Haimanti Shukla, Swagatalakshmi Dasgupta and a host of other actors, playback singers and artistes connected with the Bengali film industry. Event: Uttam Kumar’s birth anniversary programmes When: Today at 5 pm Where: Rabindra Sadan and Uttam Mancha

art

Till September 3 at Gallery Exposure, 54B Mahanirban Road, #4003 1668; 3 pm - 8 pm: The Monsoon Show — an exhibition of paintings by Anirban Khamaru, Bijoy Basak, Chandranath Saha (Tilak),Dwijen Gupta, Diptajit Das, Dipankar Pahari,Gautam Sarkar, Madhumati, Nirmalendu Mandal, Pratyusha Mukherjee, Sudipta Dutta, Sujata Kar Saha, Subhabrata Bose, Tohidul Islam and others. Till September 4 at Academy of Fine Arts, South gallery; 3 pm - 8 pm: Silpam presents an exhibition of paintings by its young members of the age group three-and-a-half years to 18 years. Till September 4 at Ganges Art Gallery, 33A Jatin Das Road, #2465 3212; 11 am - 7 pm: Constructing the Present — featuring the works by Manjari Chakravarti, Tapati Chowdhury, Chhatrapati Dutta, S. Gopinath, Jehangir Jani, Mahbubur Rahman, Rajeswara Rao, Partha Shaw, Deepak Tandon, Tanmoy Samanta and Babu Xavier. Till September 7 at Artists Circle, 46 Circus Avenue, #2283 3176; 2 pm - 7 pm: View from the Edge, an exhibition celebrating Independence Day. Featuring works by Alok Bhattacharya, Animesh Nandi, Bijon Chowdhury, Biswapathi Maity, Chanchal Mukherjee, G.A. Dandekar, M. Senathipathy, Nilesh Kinkale, Partha Pratim Deb, Partha Bhattacharya, Prafulla Dhanuka, Prakash Karmakar, R.M. Palaniappan, Ram Lal Dhar, S.G. Vasudev, Sam Adaikalaswami, Suhas Roy, Sunil Das and Yusuf Arakkal. Till September 7 at Birla Academy of Art & Culture, 2nd floor; 4 pm - 8 pm: Entourage de Color, a show by young contemporaries Somit Gupta, Nobina Gupta, Saumik, Piyali, Santanu, Jayshree, Ritabrata and Pradeep. Till September 8 at Academy of Fine Arts, New South Gallery-A; 3 pm - 8 pm: An exhibition of paintings and sculptures by Krishnapratim Sahu, Avedananda Goswami, Dipankar Roy, Arindam Debnath, Shib Sankar Das, Sanjoy Kumar Das and Hemanta Sur. Till September 8 at Angan Art Gallery, 11 Fern Place , #2460 8899; 2 pm - 8 pm: Forms and Feelings, an exhibition of paintings and sculptures. Till September 10 (except Sunday) at Gallery Kanishka’s, 2/1 Hindustan Road, #2463 0465; 11 am - 8 pm: Occupying Silence, an exhibition of graphic verse by Devashish Makhija. Till September 10 (except Sunday) at Tejas Art Gallery, 11 Mayfair Road, #98300 49825; 1 pm - 7.30 pm: Krishna Katha, a solo show of drawings and paintings of Krishna by Siddhartha SenGupta. Till September 13 (except Sundays & public holidays) at CIMA Gallery; 3 pm - 7 pm (Mondays) and 2 pm - 7 pm (Tuesdays to Saturdays): An exhibition titled Concepts & Ideas 2008. Till September 13 (weekdays) at Masters Collection Art Gallery, G7 Malayalay Apts, 3 Woodburn Park Road, #30534053; 11 am - 7 pm: 4th Dimension, an exhibition of sculptures by Bipin Goswami, Shankar Ghosh, Niranjan Pradhan, Manik Talukdar, Anil Sen, Tapas Sarkar, Gopinath Roy, Bimal Kundu, Chandan Roy, Sudarson Pal, Somnath Chakraborty, Kinkar Saha, Banamali Sharma, Koushik Pal, Ruma Sharma and Subhamita Dinda.

DRAMA

September 3 at Madhusudan Mancha; 7 pm: Rangakarmee will stage Kashinama. Direction & acting: Usha Ganguli. September 4 at Academy of Fine Arts; 6.30 pm: Nandipat presents Kah, directed by Bimal Chakraborty.

TALK

September 3 at Ramakrishna Mission Saradapitha, Belur Math; 6 pm: Swami Shastrajnananda will speak on Vivek Chudamoni. September 3 at Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, Shivananda Hall; 6.15 pm: Swami Somatmananda will speak in Bengali on Sri Sri Mayer Katha. September 3 at Ramakrishna Vedanta Math, 19B Raja Rajkrishna Street; 7 pm: Swami Buddhatmananda will speak in Bengali on Bani O Bichar. September 3 at Ramakrishna Math, Baranagar; 7 pm: Manicklal Dey will speak on Sri Ramakrishna Sangeet.

PERFORMING ARTS

September 3 at Purbashree, Bharatiyam Cultural Multiplex, IB 201 Salt Lake; 6 pm: EZCC hosts Monsoon Voices: Rhum, Jhum Ke Barsan Lagi Badariya — an interdisciplinary dance-theatre featuring a collage of classical and contemporary Kathak dances, along with Rabindrasangeet, pure classical music (khayal), light classical music (thumri, kajri, jhoola) and poetry, defining the various characteristics and emotions of the monssons. Conceptualised, directed and choreographed by Anurekha Ghosh. September 4 - 7 at G.D. Birla Sabhagar; 6 pm: 100 Pipers, Showhouse and Sanskriti Sagar present a four-day Indian classical music soiree in tribute to the tabla exponent, Ustad Karamatullah Khan. Participants: Sept. 4: Ustad Ayaan Ali Khan, Partho Bose and Begum Parween Sultana. Sep. 5: Ustad Shujaat Khan, Ustad Rashid Khan and Pandit Satish Vyas. Sept. 6: Pandit Chitresh Das, Pandit Ulhas Kashalkar and Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia. Sept. 7: Arshad Ali Khan, Ustad Sultan Khan, Taufiq Qureshi and Ustad Sabir Khan.

FESTIVAL

Till September 7 at 3/1/1A Nakuleshwar Bhattacharjee Lane, #2463 3859; 6.30 am - 9.15 am, 9.45 am - 12 noon, 2 pm - 4 pm, 4.30 pm, - 6.15 pm: The 30th Sreemad Bhagavatha Sapthaham orgainsed by Sree Guruvayurappan Samajam, Calcutta. Discourse on Sreemad Bhagavatham by the well-known personality from Karnataka, Swami Chaitanyaji, assisted by Kallamvally Jayan Nambudiri, and Puja by Narayan Murthy. Today’s topic: Bharatha Charitham, Bhoogola Varnana, Naraka Varnana, Ajamila Moksham, Vrithrasura Vadham, Chitrakethu Charitham, Prahlada Charitham, Narasimhavatharam.

PHOTOGRAPHS

Till September 3 at Akar Prakar, P 238 Hindustan Park, #2464 2617; 2 pm - 7 pm: The Camera with the Third Eye, an exhibition of recent photographs taken by Nikhil Bhandari. Till September 7 at Photographers’ Gallery, 59A Southend Park, ground floor; 3 pm - 8 pm: Visual Play: A Journey from Colour to Black-and-White — photographs by Atanu Paul and members of Third Eye.

BIRTH ANNIVERSARY

September 3 at Uttam Udyan (opp. Howrah Station, adjacent ferryghat) at 10 am; at Calcutta Press Club; 4 pm: Jhumur Kala Sangam remembers Uttam Kumar on his birth anniversary with a memorial programme and garlanding of the legendary actor’s mural, at 10 am; presentation of Uttam Ratna and Uttam Lekhani awards, at 4 pm.

SEMINAR

Till September 4 at Sahitya Akademi Auditorium: A national seminar marking the birth centenary of Manik Bandyopadhyay. Today: First session (10 am): Genre: Novel; Speakers: C. Naganna (Kannada), Sandeep Bandyopadhyay, Selina Hossain and Subrata Mukhopadhyay. Second session (12 noon): Genre: Short Story; Speakers: Bipul Das, Sara Joseph (Malayalam), Rabisankar Bal, and Uday Prakash (Hindi). Third session (2 pm): Genre: Translation; Speakers: Jyotsna Raut Ray (Oriya), Pradip Acharya (Assamese), Prabodh Parekh (Gujarati) and Ramlochan Thakur (Maithili). Fourth session (4 pm): Genre: Children’s Literature and Juvenilia; Speakers: Debasis Bandyopadhyay, Hayat Mamud, Manabendra Bandyopadhyay and Parthajit Gangopadhyay.

WORKSHOP

September 3 at Big Bazaar, Lee Road & Pantaloons, Camac Street; 4.30 pm: Greeting-card making workshop for children. Organised by Depot. Details at #98305 48802.

EXHIBITION

Till September 4 at Anusthan Bhawan, 132 Rashebhari Avenue, #98302 23455: Best Friendz organises an exhibition of sarees, accessories, gift item and jewellery. Till September 6 at 10 Dr Sarat Banerjee Road, #2466 1111; 10 am - 7 pm: Kundahar’s exhibition of choicest handloom sarees. Till September 6 at Sushree, 4RA2/4 Purbachal II, Salt Lake; 12 noon - 8 pm: Sushree showcases its Puja collection of trendy dresses. Till September 7 at Sravasti, 14/97 Golf Club Road, Tollygunge, #24734546; 2 pm - 8 pm: KeyaChaitali’s exclusive fair of t-shirts, photuas, short kurtas, kurtas, salwar-kurtas, wrap-around sets, mekhalas, saradins, nakshikantha, batik, appliqued, block-printed cotton and silk sarees, blouse pieces, costume jewellery and bags. Till September 8 at Sreemayee, P-58 Dr Sarat Banerjee Road, #2466-2238, 24632369; 4 pm - 9 pm: Exhibition of festival collection of designer sarees from tant, silk, tasar to Gujarati silk, batik prints, khari print, kantha stitch, etc. Till September 8 at Artisana, 13 Chowringhee Terrace, 1st floor; 10 am - 7.30 pm: Crafts Council of West Bengal presents Aagomoni, a collection of exquisite textiles from across India: Southern waeves (Karnataka), cotton weaves (Chettinad), kalamkari prints (Masulipattam), tussar (Bhagalpur and Vidharba) tribal weaves (Kotpad), among others.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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Fax: 2234-8244