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Second Coming
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Ocean at DV8 |
Damn. Why
don't they have a photograph of Delhi's vanguard disc in its heydays.
The Cellar, placed in the outer hoop of Connaught Place, had a sunbonnet
of a car in its wall, a bathtub suspended from the ceiling and graffiti
nicely blackened on the ochre paint. "It was a place for the flower
children," says 25-year-old Amira whose dad Satinder Singh first
started the nightclub way back in 1962. It was shut down in 1978 to make
space for a double-decker, tri-cuisine restaurant. Now a determined Amira,
who's quit her job as a TV hack, and her industrialist-husband Sukhdev,
have refurbished the space into a hangout /restaurant and rechristened
it DV8 'cause, as she says, "It can't go back to what it once was."
Toasting the new avatar of the capital's oldest nightclub at a launch
were fusion fellows Indian Ocean and heady musicians Shivamani and Louis
Banks. And wait, there's more here than just jazz, blues, rock, retro
(sorry, no postmodern jingles like trance) and valet parking - paintings
on the walls and sculpture in the corners ... the things Sukhdev wants
to be "the topic of conversation on every table". Wonder if
the hangout itself will be the talk of the town.
-Anshul
Avijit
Pleasure
Is Mime
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| Vidyarthi
and Malhotra |
What? Bollywood
baddie Ashish Vidyarthi turning Kathakali dancer? Well, temporarily ...
for nfdc film Mukabhinaya which will require him to master some Kathakali
rasas and some mime. And theatre person Shymanand Jalan, who's directing
the film wants to make sure his principals -Vidyarthi and actor Pawan
Malhotra know their moves.
Even though
it's being shot on a shoestring budget (Rs 24 lakh), the film-about a
mime troupe doing small skits in villages and based on a story by Bengali
writer Dibyendu Patit and with a script adapted by Vijay Tendulkar-has
a string of "challenges". "The most difficult thing about
the film," says Malhotra, "is that it combines a variety of
performing arts-dance, mime and some nuances of theatre." The cast
even had to take face-painting lessons from artist designer Ramesvar Broota.
"It's not a normal film film," says Vidyarthi groping for words.
That takes care of the box office at least.
-Labonita
Ghosh
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