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Open Cast

D for Drama's

Venue:Prithvi Theatre

Date and Time: Thursday, 7th March and Friday, 8th March - 7 Pm and 9 Pm

Synopsis: "Open Cast" is a play about people displaced and how it affects them and their newly forged relationships with strange people and places. What do the displaced lose? Self-Identity and Autonomy or Freedom? What are their problems? Language, Food or being an Outsider? It's not just the people but their culture which also has to suffer the wrench. "Open Cast" is two parallel stories: one of the new arrivals in the affluent capital city of Delhi looking for a better life; the other of people forced to endure evacuation from the coal-mining town of Dhanbad.

Cast: Ghanshyam Lalsa, Avneesh Mishra, Shashie Vermaa, Serena Walia, Lisha Bajaj, Navendra Mishra, Vara Raturi, Vivan Karan Singh, Kuldeep Kushwaha, Deepali Garg, Geetika Lalwani, Amit Purohit, Sumit Raj Yadav and Aayush Tiwari

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Sandeep Mohan

After travelling to festivals like South Asian International Film Festival, New York and Mumbai Film Festival (Mami), Sandeep Mohan’s Love, Wrinkle-free released in theatres this Friday (Read review). The director talks about his film which rightly claims to be an ‘offbeat, light-hearted story about love going beyond cosmetic barriers’.

How did the idea for Love, Wrinkle-free originate?

While traveling and hanging out in cafes, I noticed that we Indians are getting extremely obsessed with the “external”. There are more Skin Clinics and Botox Centres and Hair transplant “dens” than Dustbins in cities. Also, this is a country that prided itself on the “internal” and gave the world Yoga and what not.

I felt that the pressure to retain youth for a longer period of time, with headlines like ‘40 is the new 30’ and ‘50 is the new 40’ does start to put a lot of pressure on families and I...

For those familiar with indie movies, Seema Rahmani is not a new name. Having started her acting career with television, Seema made an impression with her movie Sins (starring Shiny Ahuja) followed by Loins of Punjab Presents and Missed Call. The lovely actress in an exclusive with BollySpice:

How did acting happen to you? Is this something you always wanted to do or it happened by chance?

It happened by chance. I had performed in a musical and a play in school but didn’t know I would be an actor. I was in public relations for two years when I realized it wasn’t the career I wanted for the rest of my life. A couple of people suggested I go into modeling. I didn’t really want to do that, and so I took some time off, prayed intensely for direction, and the universe conspired, so to speak,...

A film by Mira Nair ‘Little Zizou’ wins yet another laurel. Director Sooni Taraporevala has been awarded the Best Director in the Experience section of the 7th edition of the Levante International Film Festival, recently held in Bari, Italy.

The film stars Boman Irani, Sohrab Ardeshir, Cyrus Broacha, Kunal Vijaykar, Kurush Deboo, Mahabanoo-Mody Kotwal, Dilshad Patel, Shernaz Patel, Kamaal Sidhu, among others film is also introducing Iyanah and Jahan Bativala. Last but not the least heartthrob John Abraham too has done a special appearance in the film.

‘Little Zizou’ is a fast-paced, exuberant, yet poignant comedy about how two battling Mumbai families finally come to terms. Seemingly, Sooni Taraporevala has attain an.

The Indian Films-Mira Nair presented Little Zizou has bagged another feather in its cap! Director Sooni Taraporevala was awarded the Best Director in the Experience section of the 7th edition of the Levante International Film Festival, recently concluded in Bari, Italy. Little Zizou stars Boman Irani, Sohrab Ardeshir, Cyrus Broacha, Kunal Vijaykar, Kurush Deboo, Mahabanoo-Mody Kotwal, Dilshad Patel, Shernaz Patel, Kamaal Sidhu, among others, and introduces Iyanah and Jahan...

As ‘Little Zizou’ unfolds, one gets to see a world as seen by the 11 year old protagonist – Xerxes (Jahan Bativala) – a boy who just loves his football and looks forward to meet his icon Zinedane Zidane – on whose name he got his nickname – Zizou.

A motherless child born Zizou is brought up in a typical Parsi surrounding. He is the son of Cyrus II Khodaiji (Sohrab Ardeshir) an extremist who proclaims to be a spiritual healer thereby misleading the Parsi community for his own sake.

Through the portrayal Cyrus II Khodaiji (Sohrab Ardeshir) and Boman Presswala (Boman Irani) of fundamental and liberal Parsis, Sooni Taraporevala, who makes her directorial debut with the flick, is successful in highlighting a long drawn dispute among the Parisis.

However, the film does not dwell much upon the origin of Parsis except for the fact that Parsis came to India when Persia was attacked by the Arabs.

Click above for more stills The Sooni Taraporevala-directed Little Zizou, selected as the closing film on November 9, 2008 at the 8th Mahindra Indo-American Arts Council Film Festival (Miaac), came trumps when it received the Best Director and Time Warner Best Screenplay awards. Little Zizou, a Mira Nair and Indian Films' presentation, has been produced by Jigri Dost Productions. Taraporevala's debut directorial feature is set amongst Mumbai's educated, eccentric and miniscule Parsi community. The fast-paced and exuberant yet poignant comedy, with a message of tolerance at its heart, is about a young boy whose only ardent wish is for his long-dead mother to bring his idol and French soccer star, Zinedine Zidane (Zizou), to Mumbai. Said Taraporevala, "I was overwhelmed by the warmth with which Little Zizou was received by the audience. I couldn't have asked for a better world premiere - for the film to be introduced and championed by...