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WITH SCIENCE: It feels like you are running with Marion Jones.
Last week when "Science of Sports"-an exhibition that shows
how science can enhance performance on the playfield-opened at Calcutta's
Birla Industrial and Technological Museum, young aspirants were busy clocking
themselves against Jones or trying to outpace Javagal Srinath's bowling.
The show, on till January 31, is a mix of interactive demos and trivia
like basketball nets, a putting green, a mini bowling alley, reflex testing
games and charts full of factoids. Perhaps winning can finally become
a little easier.
-Labonita
Ghosh
A
Tale of Two Women
Actor, theatre
critic or director? It's a "been there, done that" scene for
Kavita Nagpal who decided to direct a play in English after 20 years of
"I just couldn't find a script that excited me". Her absence
explains a lot. Held at Delhi's India Habitat Centre recently, Trumpets
of Death, translated from French by the original playwright Tilly himself,
is a poorly executed tale of two women from a hick town in France trying
to make it in Paris. Valium-addicted Anneck (played by Anila Singh Khosla)
becomes suicidal when her struggling actor friend (Radhika Singh) ridicules
her orderly, boring life and trashes her home with her coke-sniffing boyfriend
(played by Dalip Shankar). The play is on loneliness and mediocrity, but
when the main protagonist goes on a cleaning binge on stage (she makes
the bed thrice), it makes one think it's about an obsessive compulsive
disorder patient. What's interesting is Tilly's in-your-face realism-like
the too loud flushing of a toilet and a door that refuses to open. It
ends with Anneck plodding on bravely, despite her dreary existence. Good
performances and excellent sets prevented people from fleeing the theatre-but
just about.
-Leher
Kala
PREMIERES
PLEASE: No, this isn't about party poopers getting tight in
three-a-night dos. It's about them preferring the popcorn-and-Coke comfort
of English film premieres. So at the Charlie's Angels show at Regal Cinema
in Mumbai last week, off-screen star spotting became as much an event
as the movie itself with siblings Malaika and Amrita Arora (above, left),
Dino Morea, Marc Robinson and starlet Priya Gill hogging the limelight.
But the eyecatchers had to be Miss Universe Lara Dutta and her beau Star
Biz anchor Kelly Dorjee (above, right). Pity the Columbia Tristar hunt
for three desi angels fizzled out.
-Natasha
Israni
DANCE
FLOORED: Salvador Dali's paintings, Enigma's Carly's Song,
Kehna Hi Kya from the film Bombay and eight other songs featured in an
eclectic jazz ballet performance by choreographer-model-dancer 26-year-old
Terence Lewis (right) and his troupe (below) at St Andrews Auditorium
in Bandra, Mumbai, last week. His themes: love, longing, betrayal, sexuality,
ugliness and evil. The response: a deafening ovation. Lewis has also been
touted as the next Shiamak Davar by theatre man Alyque Padamsee. Poor
boy.
-Himanshi
Dhawan
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