Sahitya O Alochona : Barnomoy Jibanananda

Sahitya O Alochana will be held on Friday, February 19, 2010, 8.00pm at Ananda Mandir. Topic for this session is “Barnomay Jibananda” featuring a discussion on Jibananda Das’s works including, poem, short stories, fictions, etc. Ms. Dhriti Bagchi will be the discussion leader for this session. Active participation from the attendees in the discussion including reading of Jibabananda’s poetry or prose is highly encouraged.

Please also note that the topics for the next two sessions (March and April) will likely be the following:

1) Jhumpa Lahiri’s work – discussion leader (To Be Declared)
2) Bengali Drama in North America – discussion leader Sudipta Bhawmik

RON to be Staged by Natyabharati of Maryland

Natyabharati presents

“RON”

(in Hindi and English)

a play by Sudipta Bhawmik

Hindi translation by Kaushik Datta and Stuti Banerjee

Directed by Suma Muralidhar

April 3, 2010

at F. Scott Fitzgerald Auditorium, Rockville Civic Center, Rockville, MD.

Cast: Jay Tipnis, Suresh Kodolikar, Meera Narasimhan, Rajiv Paul, Madhuri Subramaniam, Subhojit Sen, Pranav Pandya and Chetna Gola

Raag-Rang Presents Violin Lec-Dem

Date : 5th December, Saturday. Time: 4 p.m. to 6 p.m.

Raag-Rang is presenting a lecture-Demonstration by Arun Rammurthy

(Violin) and Suresh Ramachandran (Mrudangam).

Suchishmita Dutta is going to start the afternoon with her short

rendition of hindustani vocal. Amod Dandawate And Indrani Chakraborty

Khare is going to accompany her on Tabla & Harmonium.

Venue: Upadhyay Residence.

42 Walter Brook Drive, Bridgewater, NJ 08807.

Donation: $ 5.00 for members and $7.00 for non-members.

RSVP will be appreciated as seats are limited.

Contact: (908)-429-1120. (908)-707-8582, (609)-890-4890.

email: bhawmikm@gmail.com, mayuresh.khare@gmail.com

NJISACF 2009: Day 3

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 11
ALL SCREENINGS AT BUSCH CAMPUS CENTER
604 Bartholomew Rd, Piscataway, NJ

Time MPR Center Hall
12:00 PM
Pura Handa Kaluwara / Death on a Full Moon Day (Narrative Feature/Sri Lanka/ 1999/ 74min/ Sinhala)
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Barah Aana / Short-changed

(Narrative Feature/India/ 2009/ 97min/ English-Hindi)
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2:15 PM
A Bristol Pilgrimage

(Docu Feature/UK-USA-INDIA/ 2008/ 60min/ English)
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Shared Look – Theatre Life in Kabul

(Docu Short/Germany-Afghanistan/ 2006/ 43min/ Dari-English)
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Oru Pennum Randaanum / Climate for Crime(Narrative Feature/India/ 2008/ 115min/ Malayalam)
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Shared Look – Theatre Life in Kabul

(Docu Short/Germany-Afghanistan/ 2006/ 43min/ Dari-English)
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5:15 PM
Mohandas

(Narrative Feature/India/ 2008/ 117min/ Hindi-English)

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Chaturanga / 4 Chapters

(Narrative Feature/India/ 2008/ 125min/ Bengali-English)
Sponsored by Mrittika of New Jersey

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NJISACF 2009: Day 2

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 10
ALL SCREENINGS AT LOREE IN DOUGLASS COLLEGE
72 Lipman Dr., New Brunswick, New Jersey, 08901

Time LOR 022 LOR 024 LOR 020
12:00 PM
Boomerang

(Narrative Short/USA/ 2009/ 12min/ English)
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Karma Calling

(Narrative Feature/India/ 2008/ 90min/ English-Hindi)
Sponsored by Sukh Sagar Cuisine of Piscataway

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Certain Chapters

(Narrative Short/Singapore/ 2008/28min/ Tamil-Hokkien-Malay)
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Dinner for Four

(Narrative Short/Germany/ 2008/ 14min/ English)
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Malaamee / Funeral

(Narrative Short/France-Nepal/ 2008/ 20min/ Nepali)
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Small Voices

(Narrative Short/Pakistan/ 2008/16min/ Urdu-English)
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Who Am I Ek Zindagi

(Narrative Short/India/ 2009/20min/ Hindi)
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Banshi

(Narrative Feature/Bangladesh/ 2007/ 76min/ Bengali)
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Chinese Whispers

(Narrative Silent Short/India/ 2007/ 28min/ English-Hindi)
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2:15 PM
Sarpanaah / Shelter

(Animated Short/Afghanistan/ 2007/ 6min/ Silent)
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Loori

(Narrative Feature/USA/ 2008/ 90min/ Dari-English )
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7 Days in Slow Motion

(Narrative Feature/India/ 2009/ 101min/ English-Hindi)
Sponsored by The Indian Institute of Performing Arts (IIPA)

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4:30 PM
Barah Aana / Short-changed

(Narrative Feature/India/ 2009/ 97min/ English-Hindi)
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THE DAMNED RAIN (Gabhricha Paus)

Narrative Feature/India/ 2008/ 100min/ Marathi
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7:15 PM
Akasa Kusum / Flowers of the Sky

(Narrative Feature/Sri Lanka/ 2008/ 90min/ Sinhala)
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Gulabi Talkies

(Narrative Feature/India/ 2008/ 122min/ Kannada)
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9:30 PM
Swapnodanay / On the Wings of Dreams

(Narrative FeatureIBangladesh/ 2008/ 88min/ Bengali)
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Ghosht Story

(Narrative Short/USA/ 2009/ 19min/ English-Marathi-Hindi)
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Kala Pul / The Black Bridge

(Narrative Short/US-Pakistan/ 2008/ 42min/ Urdu-English)
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Hungry God

(Narrative Short/India/ 2009/ 8min/ Marathi)
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Pura Handa Kaluwara / Death on a Full Moon Day

(Narrative Feature/Sri Lanka/ 1999/ 74min/ Sinhala)
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B2B Legends : A Unique Concert from Que Zara Productions

New Jersey based Que Zara Productions has announced that they are hosting a concert which will showcase the melodies of the 50s era down to the jingles of the 90s. The show is aptly called B2B Legends or Burman to Burman (S.D.Burman to R.D.Burman), which will be led by original yesteryear super musicians like Ajit Pachegaokar (electric and acoustic guitar) and Inder Singh (I.P.Singh) on the piano/keyboards. They will be supported by nine other famous musicians, including Sanjay Shah (keyboards and vocals), Kumar Majmudar (accordion), Atish Mitra (bass guitar), Sripad Jail (dholak, tabla), Deepak Gundani (rhythm), Pappoo (octopad), Harish B (mandolin), Kalpesh Patel (drums) and Ramesh Maraj (saxophone) of IndiaSax.

The show will focus on the genius instrumentation behind the melodies and will feature vocal renditions from Shweta Ranade and Abhijit Pachegaokar.

Celebrated talent Dan Skye (formerly with Bon Jovi) will provide the sound engineering for the show. Additionally, it will feature melodies of other legendary music composers from Khaiyyam, Laxmikant – Pyarelal, Kalyanji Anandji to disco king Bappi Lahiri.

Speaking on the occasion Kousik Bhowal and Prabir Mitra, Board Advisors for Que Zara agreed, “It is like a Yanni show of Indian music, an Indian instrument-lead concert to savor and learn how the blockbuster hits were created, meet these great musicians in person, enjoy world class audio and go home humming your favorite tunes.”

Aparna Tandon, Prajee chief who will manage the event, said, “I am simply excited to be a part of all this. Five musical decades in one night, eleven expert musicians on one stage, what else can a music lover want?”

Que Zara has plans to replicate the show in the tri-state area in future months.

Dolna Banerjee, Que Zara founder partner, said, “We chose this facility for the excellent acoustics and people capacity. We sincerely hope we can replicate this in other music-loving cities in the US. New Jersey will now experience this unique collage of musicians playing together.”

Que Zara has ambitious plans to bring other unique blockbuster shows to the tri-state area.

Tickets, Show Details are available from: http://cities.sulekha.com/new-jersey/events/Social/2009/09/b-to-b-legends.htm

NJPA Kali Puja 2009

NJPA cordially invites you to celebrate Kali Puja on October 10th at CrossRoads Middle School.Puja will start at 3:00 PM which will be followed by Prasad and Dinner. Nirmalya Roy of Zee-TV, Tara TV, ETV, Saregama fame will present semi-calssical and ghazals and Moumita Chatterjee of Calcutta Door Darshan, ETV, Tara Music and aAkash Bangla Fame and will present variety songs,. For more information, please visit http://njpa.net.

Raag-Rang presents – Kal Ke Kalakar

For the first time Raag-Rang presents Kal Ke Kalakar (Budding Artists of Future), providing a platform to promising young talents, featuring,
Rohan Prabhudesai (Harmonium Solo),
Tejas Tope (Tabla Solo),
Rohan Misra( Sarangi solo),
Charmie Mehta(Hindustani Vocal),
Veena Bhagavathi, Shiv Nadkarni & Ruchita Zaparde (Kathak T
rio).

Date: Sunday, October 11th, 2009
Time: 3:00 to 5:30 (Sharp)
Venue: Universal Unitarian Congregation of Princeton (Fahs Theater).
50 Cherry Hill Road, Princeton, NJ 08540.
Admission: Non-Members: $12.00 (kids below 10 years: &7.00)
Raag-Rang Members: $10.00 (Kids below 10 years: $5.00).
Contact: 908-429-1120, 609-890-4890, 908-240-8289. RSVP appreciated due to limited seating.

Email: bhawmikm@gmail.commayuresh.khare@gmail.comdhu92@optonline.net