Nov 30, 1998

This should cheer Mumbai's art world. A new art gallery, the Fine Art Company, opens in the city this week. The inaugural show has works of 42 artists such as Ganesh Pyne, Rajeev Lochan, Karl Antao and Edwin Joseph.

Where Man Meets God--Photo-Exhibition by Madhur Dhingra
(India International Centre, Delhi; Nov 25-Dec 1)

Naked Nagas, Buddhist monasteries, Varanasi's burning ghats form the theme of Dhingra's exhibition, light symbolising God and the dark, the blackness of the human soul.

THEATRE
Fiddler on the Roof
(Directed by George Pulinkala; Starring Nicholas Hoffland, Ruchika Castellino, Himaal Kak; Kamani, Delhi; Nov 27-30)

Delhi Music Theatre (DMT) reproduces yet another Broadway musical hit. Set in pre-revolutionary Russia, Fiddler on the Roof is about milkman Tevye's futile efforts to marry off his five daughters. Hopefully DMT's choreography won't be too repetitive.

The Women
(Directed by Feisal Alkazi; Starring Mona Chawla, Radhika Alkazi, Nandini Sra; Shri Ram Centre, Delhi; Nov 28 & 29)

Chilean playwright Ariel Dorfman's thought-provoking and poetic play, The Women, tells the story of a village inhabited only by women. So where have all the men gone? Find out in this 18-member cast production of Ruchika Theatre Group.

MOVIES
The X Files
(Directed by Rob Bowman; Starring David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Martin Landau)

This time agents fox Mulder and Dana Scully try to find the link between a Dallas building bombing and a mutant virus from the Ice Age. For die-hard X-philes, a disappointment.

DANCE
Atma Mukti--Dance by Reela Hota
(Shri Ram Centre, Delhi; Nov 30)

Yoga and dance? The twain meet in young artiste Reela Hota's Odissi recital whose theme is self-liberation. The age-old exercises are presented in the dance form. Choreographed by the legendary Kelucharan Mahapatra, the music is scored by Pandit Rajan Mishra.

ODD ENDS
The Other Festival
(Museum Theatre, Chennai; Nov 29-Dec 6)

Chennai witnesses new avant-garde works of playwrights, dancers (like Astad Deboo) and musicians. Veenapani Chawla's play, Brhanalla, and Renu Sethna's stage adaptation of Khalil Gibran's The Prophet also feature among "the others".

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