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Hindi-English Theatre Review Johnson Thomas Play: Dad’s Girlfriend Cast: Satyendra Malik, Suman Vaidya, Anumeha Jain, Karishma Singh Director: Atul Satya Koushik Writer: Atul Satya Koushik, Rating: * * ½ Playtime: 130 mins After a successful opening in Delhi, Atul Satya Koushik’s new play, a sitcom, ‘Dad’s Girlfriend’ opens in Mumbai to decent crowds. Staged by one of Delhi’s leading theatre groups, The Films and Theatre Society, and promoted by Kaushik’s frequent marketing collaborator Coconut Theatre, ‘Dads Girlfriend’ is an urban family drama that hopes to get you cackling with it’s frequent resort to slapstick. Written and directed by Atul Satya Koushik, this play which is daringly different from his largely mythological ( Chakravyuh, Draupadi, Raavan Ki Ramayan) oeuvre hopes to grab the eyeballs of millennia’s facing similar situations on the home-front. The writing though is a little too heavy-duty to be credited as an out and out comedy. There’s neither dep...

#RaavanKiRamayan #EpicTheatreReview #TheatreCriticJohnsonThomas Rating: * * * 1/2 Coconut Theatre Takes the lead in presenting The Films and Theatre Society's relaunch of it's epic play “Raavan Ki Ramayan” in Mumbai on 5th may 2018. Director Atul Satya Koushik who has also written the script, delineates Raavan's viewpoint regarding the Ramayana.The Director who has always managed to get celebrities from films and TV to act in his plays manages to scoop out once famous cinema villain Punnet Issar from the obscurity of TV, to star in the titular role as the agonised and deeply pained Raavan who believes he has been wronged by Shiva, to whom he has been the most ardent devotee. The production may not have the lush majesty of the super successful #MughalEAzam but the emotive en-treatment cannot be denied. Raavan who most of us saw as the villain of the Ramayana, is the protagonist here.The play is his version of events that transpired and looks at why his ...

#GolmaalThePlay #ReviewByTheatreCriticJohnsonThomas Artists- #VinduDaraSingh, #RajeshPuri, #AkashdeepSabir, #SheebaSabir, #PayalGogaKapoor, #DeepshikhaNagpal, #LuckyHans, #SarthakJoshi Rating: * 1/2 Synopsis- As the very name suggests, a laugh riot, based on mistaken identities, is about an uneducated plumber who hits big time and upgrades his living style , but is unable to overcome his lower middle-class mindset. As a result the better educated servant of the house takes advantage of his unschooled behavior and makes merry in the household, resulting in chaos. The plumber's wife wants to admit her rogue son in an English medium School but the interview that the school teacher has scheduled with the family goes entirely haywire. The inquisitive neighbor adds to the GOLMAAL. Review A poorly scripted and shabbily constructed wannabe comedy drama, 'Golmaal The Play' has nothing much going for it. The acting is ridiculous, the acts are sloppy,Direction is inept, the...

‘KATHAK FOR  HIM ’ Mumbai:  A first-of-its kind workshop titled ‘Kathak For  Him ’ is set to storm Mumbai on   June 19 , Father’s Day and will see grown men dance to the tune of one woman - Kathak guru Aparna Mishra.  The danseuse, who has trained in the classical dance form for 16 years, has especially designed a 90-minute workshop for men because she wants to bust the myth that Indian classical dance is  predominantly the domain of women.  Through this unique Kathak workshop for men, Mishra will educate the audience that activity and emotions have nothing to do with gender. “If you want to smile or cry, there is nothing wrong. If you want to blush, go ahead and let the blush come to your cheeks irrespective of your gender,” says Aparna. While Aparna has been teaching Kathak to both men and women for many years, she now wants men to do away with the taboo they associate in their minds by taking up classical dance. The special w...

Vindu Dara Singh in Hilarious Comedy play 'Hello Darling!  Mumbai. The Hindi hilarious comedy play ‘Hello Darling’ will open on Sunday 8 th  May 2016 at 7.30 PM at Rang Sharda Auditorium, Bandra(west), Mumbai.  The play was first in Punjabi but now it will be premiered for the first time in Hindi at Rang Sharda auditorium.   It is produced and directed by Yogesh Sanghvi and the writer is Mir Muneer.  The play stars Sheeba, Payal Goga Kapoor, Vibha Bhagat.Manish Arora and Vindu Dara Singh. Vindu Dara Singh says, "It is a hilarious comedy drama. Husband and Wife must have trust on each other and should not be unfaithful to each other. This is the message given to the audience through this drama in a very comic way."

ENatya Shodh announces the third edition of its online one-act play competition. Take your play to a wider audience. Mumbaitheatreguide.com launched ENatya Shodh three years ago in collaboration with Astitva and the project has proved to be popular. ENatya Shodh  welcomes  one-act plays in Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati and English.  The entire process takes place online and the plays are judged by an informed jury. The winning plays are thus announced. This opportunity gives theatre groups and individuals a wider reach and audience. It is one of its kind of theatre competitions and the  only online theatre competition today. We have  more than 80 plays  available online, and which have been sourced from this project. You can visit  http://www.mumbaitheatreguide. com/enatyashodh/  to find out more about this unique e-initiative and to know the rules and regulations to submit your entries.

Sunil Khilnani, Ram Guha, Shilpa Shetty, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Shashi Tharoor, Twinkle Khanna, Hussain Haqqani, Emraan Hashmi, Gulzar, Sonali Bendre Behl and much, much more. A line-up like never before… Penguin Random House is delighted to bring back to you Delhi’s oldest literary and cultural festival Spring Fever 2016 In collaboration with  Visual Arts Gallery, India Habitat Centre , New Delhi (With an  open-air library  featuring Penguin Random House’s books from  15 March to 20 March 2016 ,  open to all between  11 a.m.  and  7 p.m.  daily; followed by sessions with highly acclaimed speakers from   7 p.m.   onwards, every evening) at the  Amphitheatre, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi Spring Fever —Delhi’s oldest literary and cultural festival hosted by Penguin Random House India—celebrates its 8 th anniversary this March with an outstanding selection of literary and cultural highlights that reflect...