A venomous passion An adaptation of Girish Karnad’s original, Nagmandal narrates an enchanting tale of romance centering around the complex nature of man-woman relationships. Rani was very unhappy as she was neglected by her husband Dharmadas. Kana-ma, an occult, gave her a magic potion to make her husband fall in love with her. When Dharmadas was administered the potion, he became unconscious for a while, but it did not have its desired effect. When Kana-ma gave Rani another potion, this time with greater power, she was afraid to try it on her husband once again. She dropped the potion into the lair of a king cobra, who swallowed it. Consequently Vasuki, the cobra, became attracted to Rani. Disguising himself as Dharmadas, Vasuki visited Rani, who was overjoyed with her husband’s remarkable change in attitude. Thus, unknown to her, Rani developed a relationship with both Vasuki and Dharmadas, leading to a strange turn of events that resulted in great confusion and dilemma in their lives. Direction: Tapas Singha. Event: Play Nagmandal, produced by Pratyay When: Today at 6.30 pm Where: Academy of Fine Arts

art

Till July 5 at CIMA Gallery, Sunny Towers, 43 Ashutosh Chowdhury Avenue, #2485 8717/8509; Mondays: 3 pm - 7 pm, Tuesdays - Saturdays: 2 pm - 7 pm: Summer Show featuring works by Jayasri Burman, Rashmi Bagchi Sarkar, Rameshwar Broota, Jogen Chowdhury, Rini Dhumal, Ramendra Nath Kastha, Paresh Maity, Uday Mondal, Santosh More, Rm. Palaniappan, Manu Parekh, Ganesh Pyne, Malay Saha, Dilip Kumar Samanta, Kingshuk Sarkar, Shambhavi, Lalu Prosad Shaw, Mayank Kumar Shyam, Sanjeev Sonpimpare and others. Till July 5 at Chemould Art Gallery, 12F Park Street; 2 pm - 7 pm: The sixth group exhibition of the works of Shekhar Biswas, Sujata Chakraborty, Pranab Roy Choudhury, Prabir Das and Debasish Poddar. Till July 6 at Birla Academy of Art & Culture; 4 pm - 8 pm: Oil paintings by F. Ali. Till July 6 at The Promenade Lounge, Taj Bengal; 10 am - 11 pm: An exhibition of recent works by Niladri Shekhar Majumder. The artist will be painting live from 3 pm to 6 pm. Till July 6 at Academy of Fine Arts, North Gallery; 3.30 pm - 8 pm: Artinox presents Creativity: Turning Imaginations into Reality, an exhibition of paintings and sculptures. Participating artists: Prabhat C. Sen, Anjan Sengupta, Goutam Kundu, Indranil Ghosh, Prasanta Basu, Sreejib Ganguly, Apurup Ukil, Arup Mukherjee, Anjan Chakraborty, Puja Sarkar and Manik Lal Seal. Till July 6 at Arti Visual Art Gallery, 1/1W Gariahat Road (South), #92318 51160; 3 pm - 8 pm: An exhibition of paintings by World Art Society. Participants: Sekhar Biswas, Mitali Dey, Joyanto Kumar Das, Hemanta Sur, Suparna Choudhury and Mantu Mondal. Till July 6 at Shree Art Gallery, 11 Gurusaday Road, Kusum Apartment, Flat no. 61, #30222040; 3 pm - 7 pm: Monsoon Collections — paintings by Ashok Mondal, Asimava Dutta, Chandidas Bhattacharya, Dhiren Sasmal, Pramathes Chandra, Ratan Acharya, Shilpi Acharya, Subrata Das and others. Till July 6 at Gallery Strokes, 9A Short Street, #2290 0009; 2 pm - 8 pm: An exhibition of the works of Ranit Dutta, Subir Dey, Pradip Sarkar. Gautam Sarkar and Srinjoy Gangopadhyay. Till July 7 at Academy of Fine Arts, West Gallery; 3 pm - 8 pm: Unlimited Lines, an exhibition of recent paintings by Nilmoni Chatterjee and Basudha Sarkar. Till July 7 at Academy of Fine Arts; 3 pm - 8 pm: An exhibition of paintings by Ramkrishna Malo. Till July 7 (except Sunday) at Gallery K2, Supra Court, 35 Lansdowne Terrace, #24651444; 11 am - 7 pm: Art and Industry, an exhibition of works by artists from West Bengal, Bihar, Orissa and Jharkhand. Till July 11 (except Sunday) at Emami Tower, ECA, EM Bypass, 687 Anandapur; 11 am - 7 pm: Emami Chisel Art presents the art expo, Art Now-a-Glimpse, featuring works by contemporary artists of Bengal. Till July 12 at Tejas Art Gallery, 11 Mayfair Road, #98300 49825; 1 pm - 7.30 pm: Summer Workshop: Acrylic and charcoal works, inspired by the Bengal countryside, by Dhiren Sasmal, Ashok Ganguly, Arunava Mondol, Biswarup Garai, Avijit Mukherjee, Tarun Chakravorty, Malay Chandan Saha, Debasish Sen Gupta and Subrata Sen. Till July 15 at Galerie Karma, P 505 Keyatola Road; 10 am - 7 pm: An exhibition of paintings and drawings by Abhijit Guja. Till July 25 (except Sundays) at Aakriti Art Gallery, Orbit Enclave, 1st floor, 12/3A Hungerford Street, #2289 3027/5041; 3 pm - 7 pm: An exhibition of paintings by various artists. Till July 26 at Gallery Exposure, 54B Mahanirban Road; 3 pm to 8 pm: Art Mela, an exhibition of affordable art featuring the works of about 50 artists from Calcutta and Santiniketan. Till July 30 (except Sundays) at Gallery Kanishka's , 2/1 Hindusthan Road, 11 am - 8 pm: Confronting Masters – an exhibition of paintings featuring the works of Paritosh Sen, F. N. Souza, Ram Kumar, Amit Ambalal, Ganesh Pyne, Kartick Pyne Ganesh Haloi, Rabin Mandal and Shyamal Datta Ray.

DRAMA

July 4 at Tapan Theatre; 6.30 pm: Blank Verse and Niva Arts present two plays, Juto Abishkar and Kanaichand Palwan. Drama & direction: Raja Bhattacharya. July 4 at Academy of Fine Arts; 6.30 pm: Pratyay presents Girish Karnad’s Nagmandal. Adaptation: Swapan Majumdar. Dir: Tapas Singha. July 4 at Rabindra Sadan; 6.30 pm: Natadha presents Tagore’s Rakta-Karabi, directed by Shib Mukhopadhyay. July 4 at Madhusudan Mancha; 6.45 pm: Ajantrik presents Bhusindir Mathey. Story: Parasuram. Direction: Sujit Chatterjee. July 5 at Academy of Fine Arts & July 6 at Rabindra Sadan; 6.45 pm: Gandhar presents Kachher Manush, a play by Dr Sirish Atawala, directed by Gautam Haldar. Translated by Kamal Sanyal and Bijoylakshmi Barman.

PERFORMING ARTS

July 4 at Kala Kunj; 5 pm: The students of Pankaj Mullick Academy of Music & Art present Tapur Tupur, celebrating monsoon with Rabindrasangeet, Bengali Adhunik, Bengali and Hindi film songs and melodies of Pankaj Mullick along with orchestral presentation and dances. July 4 at Birla Academy; 6 pm: Kishalaya presents a musical evening featuring Rabindrasangeet by Kishalaya Group and Khayal by Bharat Telang (Mumbai). July 4 at Tantra, 11 pm onwards: Vh1 Dance 101 presents an electrifying night with two of the top DJs, Paul Jackson and Paul Deighton from the Ministry of Sound. July 6 at G.D. Birla Sabhagar; 6 pm: Bhavna Records and cassettes presents an evening of Tagore songs and dance-drama. Participants: Chandana Chowdhury, Mrinmoy Roy and Enakshi Chattopadhyay in solo recitals, and chorus by the artistes of Sunandan. Also, dance-drama Shyama, to be presented by Madhuri (Santiniketan) under the direction of Swastika Mukhopadhyay.

TALK

July 4 at Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, Shivananda Hall; 6 pm: Ramaranjan Mukherji will speak in Sanskrit on Bhavabhutir Uttararamacharit. July 4 at Calcutta School of Music; 6.30 pm: Indranil Poddar carries on with the lecture series on Great Conductors: a talk on renowned British conductor Sir Thomas Beecham July 4 at Ramakrishna Vedanta Math, 19B Raja Rajkrishna Street; 7 pm: Dr Sasanka Bhusan Bandyopadhyay will speak on Chandogya Upanishad.

SEMINAR

July 4 at Press Club AC auditorium; 3 pm: A seminar on how to prevent osteoarthrosis and other degenerative changes of the knees. Participants: Dr Sunil Thakur and Dr Swarnendu Samanta.

PHOTOGRAPHS

Till July 19 at Galerie 88, 28B Shakespeare Sarani; #2290 2274: Mark Him (Second Half) — a project on Indian football by Riyas Komu.

EXHIBITION

Till July 6 at Shoppers Stop, Elgin Road, City Centre & South City Mall: Rims & Dials — the sunglasses and watches fest. Till August 15 at Starmark (3 Lord Sinha Road, G-202 City Centre, Salt Lake, and South City); 10.30 am - 8 pm: An exhibition of Penguin Classics Collection covering Greek and Roman works, and Victorian literature and modern classics.

WORKSHOP

July 5 onwards at Mad Science Activity Centre, B 184 Survey Park: Mad Science of Kolkata offers two after school science-enrichment programmes for children (6 yrs to 12 yrs). The programmes are in eight-week modules and will be held every Saturday. For details, call #2416 4342, 98306 27921 or visit www.madscienceofkolkata.com July 6 at South City Mall (375 Prince Anwar Shah Road); 11am – 1pm: South City Star Kids Workshop on terracotta for children between 7 years and 12 years. Organised by Starmark in association with South City Mall. To be conducted by Kaushik Biswas. For details and registration, call 99039 85097.

BIRTH ANNIVERSARY

July 5 at Vichitra Hall, Jorasanko Thakurbari; 1 pm: Rabindra Bharati Museum and Rabindra Charcha Kendra jointly host the 149th birthday celebration of Kadambari Devi with a discussion by Subhas Chowdhury, Prof. Tapati Mukhopadhyay and Prof. Kanan Bihari Goswami. July 5 at Weavers Studio Centre for the Arts, 94 Ballygunge Place; 6.30 pm: Shrimoti Hey — remembering Kadambari Devi, on her birth anniversary, with Tagore songs and poems. Readings by Chaitali Dasgupta and Agnimitra Ghosh. Songs by Debashis Raychaudhuri, Aniruddha Singha, Ranjini Mukherjee, Bidipta Chakraborty, Kamalini Mukherjee and Rohini Roychowdhury. Concept, script & direction: Chaitali Dasgupta.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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