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SOLO SHOW: Phool took on all eight roles in Tumko
Chahoon
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This is the story
that inspired Kundan Shah's Kya Kehna! On the Delhi stage last week, Tumko
Chahoon Ke Na Aao (based on Italian journalist Oriana Fallaci's novel
Letter to a Child Never Born) had actor Niti Phool playing eight male
and female characters, mainly an unwed mother conversing with her unborn
baby. "I'd seen an English production of this play with eight actors,"
says director Ashok Purang, "but somehow it seemed to take away some
of its power." So, in the hands of writer M. Sayeed Alam, it became
an Urdu monologue with the characters passing judgement not on the choices
the protagonist makes, but on whether she had a right to make them at
all.
—Anna M.M.Vetticad
Time To Roll
Maybe it was meant
to be a race against time. But one in which the race won, hands down.
At the Swiss Carrera Speed Time watch launch at Mumbai's Nariman Point
last week, the go-karting event that kick-started the evening had the
city's glam set showing up in full strength. MTV's Alex Kuruvilla, models
Dino Morea and Bipasha Basu, and vj Suchitra Pillai watched while the
others, models Sushma Reddy and Alison Kanuga, photographer Atul Kasbekar
and singer Sanjay Maroo, slid into the stuffy single-seaters for a bit
of the fast track-never mind that the real pro, star guest and Formula
3 racer Narain Karthikeyan, was also in the fray. Game points went to
industrialist Gautam Singhania who won the round against Karthikeyan (who
seemed to just let the former inch ahead at the turns), model Kelly Dorji
who grinned sheepishly after losing the "Glam Boys" round, and
ex-model Anu Ahuja who enthused about winning despite "karting in
Mumbai for the first time". The watches were launched at a fashion
show later that evening at the Oberoi as safety pins holding together
wacky James Ferreira evening gowns. But it was the outdoors that got the
invitees ticking.
—Natasha Israni
Coffee Days
 Till
the 1980s, the Delhi University Coffee House was where students bunking
classes and professors looking for a quiet place of their own headed for
hot, steaming coffee and animated discussions. The cafe's reopening on
May 1, enabled by Vice-Chancellor Deepak Nayyar to "revive the tradition",
has brought back some fond memories. Ruminates Professor V.B. Bhatia:
"Time was when much of our physics was discussed here." Turns
out it was not the only subject. A Delhi English newspaper editor is credited
with having penned a dissertation on a shaky, formula-scrawled table at
the cafe. Who knows, the intellectual juices just might start flowing
again.
—Gaurav Rai
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