Event Collections

The Cockroach Collector is a dark and witty play woven around three people of a doomed household; the mother referred to as Ma and her two daughters, Alka and Mano. Mano is the cockroach collector. Amit, Alka's beau, tries his best to enter the fabric of the family by dealing with the mother's quirky ways and forcing himself into cockroach-friendly gestures that are very much against his own nature. As the mystery of why Mano collects cockroaches slowly unravels, Amit is bewildered at first and then aghast. On the face of it, this is a story of a seriously dysfunctional family. But it is also essentially the story of a dysfunctional world, where horrendous violence and inhuman acts can exist in the crevices of ordinary life.Read More

"Dreamers” pulls us into the lives of Maddy and Sid as they clunkily, selfishly, and naively navigate the terms of their young marriage. Amidst loan sharks, ambition, and toxic masculinity Sid and Maddy are every Indian couple – behind closed doors. Peer into the Looking Glass of “Dreamers” and you might just see yourself.Read More

Natallia Kapylova and Patricia Wind-Smith will transport you to the French capital city featuring compositions by Paris- based masters like Debussy, Faure, Gaubert, Damare, Bizet, and a couple of extra Parisian surprises All proceeds from the concert will be donated to NGO JagrutiRead More

Gagan Damama Bajyo: The Legend of Bhagat Singh, written by Piyush Mishra and directed by Riyaz Usman with original music by Alok Kesarwani, is a musical drama based on real incidents taken from the life of freedom fighter Bhagat Singh and his contemporaries. It follows the events from the year of the Jallianwala Bagh massacre in 1919 to his hanging, along with Raj Guru and Sukhdev, in 1931. Far from wanting to cause any bloodshed or violence, his decision to throw a bomb in the assembly was motivated by the desire to draw attention to the questions of freedom and equality. The play also touches on the ideological differences between Bhagat Singh and Mahatma Gandhi.Read More

Kritarth Srinivasan - Kritarth Srinivasan, 50% Tamilian, 50% Malayali. In other words, 100% confused. Being a defence brat and not having a hometown or a steady school, threw him into the worst Identity Crisis. He found his calling and love for stand-up comedy after a brief stint with engineering. He brings energy and charisma to the stage and loves making fun of everything… especially himself.  Read More

Synopsis The very first is often accorded a larger than life proportion on many fronts; and so is a women's sexual experience. 'My Sacred Glass Bowl' looks at the concept of virginity as it is perceived by contrasting communities, from the vantage point of the filmmaker, sandwiched between two mothers bringing up their daughters in contemporary times, connected by a young lady caught in the cob webs. Virginity is premarital chastity and hence within the power equations with regard to men, like the expected post marital chastity, fidelity. It thus forms the first part of a women's life. The film is a document of how women made their sexual choices in the generation that just passed by.  Read More

  Kancheepuram To Koramangala is Praveen Kumar's second 1 hour special, where he will be sharing his life journey through 8 stories in the most hilarious way, that anyone can relate to. Apart from the content being clean, it is a one of a kind show with a mix of Stand-up comedy and storytelling, that will leave the audience in splits.Read More

A husband and wife, A doctor and a scientist, a mother and a baby and antibiotics that no longer work. The Vaidhya's Oath is a theatre project on anti-microbial resistance. Dr. Ajay has been demoted, a punishment transfer from his hospital in Allahabad to a Primary Health Centre in Katkoot, UP. Uma, his wife, is a Bangalore girl. She can't hack Katkoot. Then she finds out she's pregnant. Meanwhile, Kamala, a local girl, has a baby boy ill with sepsis. Can Dr. Ajay cure him? And then there's Rahul, a seismologist who wants to be a stand-up comedian. Will the marriage survive? Will the baby live? Will Rahul get a laugh? Find out in ‘The Vaidya’s Oath’ by Gautam Raja.   ‘You, and a lot of people in India, need to learn that money can no longer buy you protection from infection’. ‘You go about the Real India – you can’t handle two hours of the real India without totally losing it’! ‘Rarely does a health crisis come into your living-room like this’.   Director’s Note: Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a world problem but is especially an Indian one. In a land with more mobile phones than toilets trying to keep AMR at bay is hard. It may seem like someone else’s problem. Try telling that to Kamala and her new-born baby with sepsis… Read More

 9 Jakhoo Hill is set in the Simla of 1962. It explore a number of themes which continue to have as much relevance today as they did in the sixties: changing values;  conflicts between  old and new;  family relationships and attendant tensions that come to the surface when  skeletons in cupboards begin to tumble out… As love, laughter, loneliness and betrayal confront each other in this powerful drama,   a moment of truth compels each character to reckon with her/his personal demons and transforms their lives irrevocably.Read More

  Documentary : Water Business is Good Business Runtime: 28 mins Dierctor: Sanjay Barnela, Vasant Saberwal   Synopsis: India's water bottling industry today stands on an annual worth of about 1,800 crore rupees (1 crore = 10 million). If Lutyen's Delhi receives 400 litres per person per day, the slums of Najafgarh receive less than 30 litres per person per day.   This crisis is rooted not so much in the overall availability of water, as in the patterns of consumption and failure to regulate consumption through appropriate and equitable tariff structures. The urban mindset seeks to source water from the rural countryside, rather than focusing on its conservation.   This film travels from Delhi to Indore, Bombay to Chennai, exploring the politics and economics of urban water supplies. We come across the same solution - the construction of mega-projects to bring water from distant rivers to our various cities. Even as we source water from distant locations, with all the attendant problems of displacing rural people from their homes and livelihoods, upwardly mobile urban populations will simply ensure a continually growing need for more water. TED Talk: The ancient ingenuity of water harvesting, Anupam Mishra Runtime: 17.07 mins With wisdom and wit, Anupam Mishra talks about the amazing feats of engineering built centuries ago by the people of India's Golden Desert to harvest water. These ancient aqueducts and stepwells are still used today — and are often superior to modern water megaprojects.Read More