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Get a ‘Vitamin’ shot at the NCPA

The internationally-acclaimed comedy play featuring solo performer Carlo Jacucci is on at the NCPA tomorrow. Do not miss this one.
by The Editors | editor@themetrognome.in

This is good theatre – and it’s on in Mumbai, at the NCPA, at 7 pm.

Tomorrow, the internationally-acclaimed ‘physical comedy’ Vitamin will play at the NCPA. It combines mime, puppetry, live accordion and surreal storytelling. The show has won great critical praise, five-star reviews and wide audience acclaim.

The British Comedy Guide describes the play thus: ‘Preaching from a book he never read, he (Jacucci) transforms himself into many characters, creatures and things, from a captain to a dancer, a marathon runner, an accordionist, a caterpillar…

Created in cabarets and variety shows across Europe, Vitamin is an internationally acclaimed physical comedy that combines different styles of contemporary comic theatre into a hilarious and moving performance. It plays with our imagination in fun and surprising ways, through mime, storytelling, dance, puppetry, and the unconventional use of live accordion.

In this physical and musical performance, our host Carlo Jaucci takes us to a fantastic world where inanimate objects are injected with vitality and the normal world becomes a lot less normal. Here he shows us completely unrelated but consistently brilliant sketches that range from the bizarre – ‘The Saddest Song in the World’ – to the sublime: the existential caterpillar.

A visually inspiring solo show, Vitamin is created and performed by Philippe Gaulier trained clown Carlo Jacucci, with a free and spectacular imagination and an incisive physical language.

Carlo Jacucci trained at École Philippe Gaulier, where he has taught three months a year since 2011. Founder of Artimmediate (2003), with whom he devised and toured internationally seven solo and collective shows, including Baitman, Beesquit,L’Accordeon-eon-eon, Boxette and Losing Venice, Carlo has been employed as actor and clown by many companies, circuses and theatres, including the Théâtre de l’Opprimé of Paris (2002-05) directed by Rui Frati, with whom he performed all over Europe and in Burundi.

(Picture courtesy ncpamumbai.com)

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Watch: Vikalp@Prithvi presents a ‘Green Tiger’

This film captures a valiant effort to stop a Chinese dam project; screening precedes Q&A with Jaitapur activist Girish Raut.
by Medha Kulkarni | @VeryMedha on Twitter

Waking the Green Tiger – The Rise of a Green Movement in China is a powerful film directed by Gary Marcuse, which will be presented by Vikalp@Prithvi this evening, Friday, December 26.

Following the screening, viewers can engage in a Q&A session with Girish Raut, environmental activist and advocate who has played a major role in protests against the Jaitapur Nuclear Power Plant and the Bandra-Worli Sea Link, among other projects.

The film is told through the point of view of activists, farmers, and journalists and follows the incredible campaign to stop a huge dam project on the upper Yangtze river in southwestern China. The film features rare and astonishing footage that has previously never been viewed outside of the country, along with interviews with a Government insider and witnesses. The documentary also analysis Chairman Mao’s campaigns to conquer nature in the name of progress.

The film has received rave reviews and is a must-see for film lovers and environmentalists alike.

“In this lushly filmed documentary, (the producers) beautifully captured the spirit of this grassroots movement in China with stunning images, superb writing and excellent use of strong, compelling personal stories,” says Susanne Reber, Grantham Prize Juror, about the film. Adds Brett Kessler, WABC 7, “Waking the Green Tiger manages the perfect balance between information and entertainment, condensing several decades of history into a rousing portrait of China’s emerging green movement. It’s a portrait of people, from the humblest of farmers to some of China’s biggest government players, coming together to shape a new socially-and eco-conscious paradigm.”

Head to Prithvi House, opposite Prithvi Theatre, Janki Kutir, Juhu Church road. The screening begins at 7 pm. Entry is free but on a first come-first-serve basis.

(Picture courtesy filmbalaya.com)

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Watch: ‘Kiss The Girls’

The 1997 thriller will be screened this afternoon at the US Consulate General, BKC, on a free-to-enter basis. Do not miss.
by The Editors | editor@themetrognome.in

This evening, Friday, December 19, the US Consulate General at Bandra Kurla Complex is hosting a screening of the hit American thriller, Kiss The Girls.

Based on a book by the same name penned by writer James Patterson, the film stars Morgan Freeman, Ashley Judd and Cary Elwes in lead roles. The film begins with forensic psychologist and detective Alex Cross (played by Morgan Freeman) going to North Carolina to investigate when his niece is reported missing from there. He finds out from the cops that his niece is one of several women recently reported missing. Soon, one of the missing women is discovered dead in a desolate forest. Almost immediately, police intern Kate (played by Ashley Judd) is kidnapped.

However, Kate is able to successfully escape from her kidnapper – she wakes up from a drugged state in a dwelling where a masked man is holding her, and probably several other women, prisoner. She sustains severe injuries while escaping, but when she recovers, she joins forces with Alex Cross to track down the kidnapper-killer.

The screening is part of the American Centre’s weekly film shows for Mumbai.

The screening is at 2 pm. Head to US Consulate General, C-49, G-Block, Bandra (East), Mumbai 400051. Call 022 26724231 for details.

(Picture courtesy www.thefancarpet.com)

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Watch: 3 films at the NCPA

Three documentaries – in English, Gujarati and Assamese – will be screened this evening at the NCPA. Don’t miss these films.
by The Editors | editor@themetrognome.in

The NCPA has been hosting some truly wonderful films recently. Today, too, Mumbaikars have three good documentaries to look forward to under the aegis of ‘NCPA Reality Check’.

In collaboration with the Indian Documentary Producers’ Association (IDPA), the NCPA will screen Qissa-e-Parsi: The Parsi Story, Rahashyar Bitchaku and Resonance Of Mother’s Melody.

Qissa-e-Parsi: The Parsi Story

The film is an English-Gujarati-Hindi language documentary that aims to understand the Zoroastrian faith, and the Parsi philosophy of love and laughter that makes it so unique and loved. It is a 30-minute film that is directed by Divya Cowasji and Shilpi Gulati.

Rahashyar Bitchaku (Seven Hundred Zero Zero Seven)
This is an Assamese Film with English Subtitles and is 29 minutes long. It is based on the life of Ranju Hazarika, a popular pulp fiction writer of Assam. He has published nearly 700 books. The film is an attempt to unfold the man in an unconventional way so as to engage the audience in the world of the writer. The film has been directed by Altaf Mazid.

Resonance of Mother’s Melody
This is a Khasi Film with English Subtitles, and is 23 minutes long. Kongthong, a remote Khasi village in Meghalaya, is characterised by an age-old practice of communication: whistling. A young researcher visits the place and interacts with the village headman. She discovers that every child is given their own special tune at the time of birth. This wonderful film is directed by Dip Bhuyan.

Head to the NCPA today at 6.30 pm. Admission is on a first-come-first-served basis. NCPA members will get preferential seating till 6.20 pm.

(Featured image courtesy www.delhievents.com)

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Attend: Rainer Fassbinder film festival

The Max Mueller Bhavan, Mumbai, is hosting a retrospective of films by the German filmmaker, actor, till December 19, 2014.
by The Editors | editor@themetrognome.in

Maverick German filmmaker and actor Rainer Werner Fassbinder, many say, died too soon. Born in 1945, Fassbinder breathed his last in 1982, at the age of 37. However, the prolific film personality and pioneer of the New German Film Movement made 43 films in 15 years.

The film director was synonymous with the German New Wave in cinema, and he made fascinating collages with truly colorful characters in his films.

Fassbinder film festivalAll this week, the Goethe-Institut/Max Mueller Bhavan, Mumbai is hosting a seven-day retrospective of Fassbinder’s select films on specified dates (see image on left) designed to acquaint the viewer with the political complexities of his films. His work is known to challenge the viewer to continuously re-orient himself owing to the films’ constantly changing cinematic structure.

This retrospective is not to be missed.

(Pictures courtesy theredlist.com and Max Mueller Bhavan Mumbai)

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Watch: ‘A streetcar named Desire’

Starring noted actor Gillian Anderson, the Tennessee Williams masterpiece is on today at the NCPA. Don’t miss it for anything.
by The Editors | editor@themetrognome.in

The play received rave reviews in the late 1940s and it won its writer – Tennessee Williams – the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1948. A Streetcar Named Desire was also brought to life on Broadway and in a London production by the stars of the day, Marlon Brando and Vivien Liegh, also to high praise.

Mumbai can watch the acclaimed production today at the NCPA. Starring Gillian Anderson, Vanessa Kirby, Ben Foster, Clare Burt and Lachele Carl, the story is of Blanche duBois, a fading but still attractive Southern woman with high-toned pretensions to decorum. As Blanche’s fragile world crumbles, she turns to her sister Stella for solace – but her downward spiral brings her face to face with the brutal, unforgiving Stanley Kowalski, her sister’s husband. Slowly Blanche’s veneer of self-possession begins to slip.

The play is directed by Benedict Andrews.

Head to the NCPA today, November 17, 2014 at 6.30 pm.

(Picture courtesy www.independent.co.uk)

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