tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-84738894347547580952024-02-21T14:38:48.323+05:30Mahim JunctionSohaila Kapurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15635655982878308942noreply@blogger.comBlogger27125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8473889434754758095.post-88384332257183497712012-04-11T21:03:00.004+05:302012-04-22T13:10:33.338+05:30Mahim Junction World Tour<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><embed flashvars="host=picasaweb.google.com&hl=en_US&feat=flashalbum&RGB=0x000000&feed=https%3A%2F%2Fpicasaweb.google.com%2Fdata%2Ffeed%2Fapi%2Fuser%2Fmahimjunction%2Falbumid%2F5730163971704791537%3Falt%3Drss%26kind%3Dphoto%26hl%3Den_US" height="400" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" src="https://picasaweb.google.com/s/c/bin/slideshow.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="600"></embed><br />
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<h1 class="detail-title" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #1f57a5; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 24px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Have show, will go! <a href="http://www.thehindu.com/arts/theatre/article3287692.ece" target="_blank">click here</a></h1><h1 class="detail-title" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #1f57a5; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 24px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #7f7f7f; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 18px; text-transform: uppercase;">SOHAILA KAPUR</span> </h1></div>Sohaila Kapurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15635655982878308942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8473889434754758095.post-7747708813954266162012-03-02T10:26:00.003+05:302012-03-02T10:26:21.712+05:30CNN IBN<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sK-MU4zVrHY&feature=player_embedded"></a>Sohaila Kapurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15635655982878308942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8473889434754758095.post-83503427565881456892011-10-29T17:38:00.000+05:302011-10-29T17:38:38.390+05:30FESTIVALS<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><b>PARTICIPATED IN :</b><br />
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<li>Bharangam (National School of Drama), New Delhi</li>
<li> Dubai Community Theatre & Arts Centre (DUCTAC), Dubai</li>
<li>The Original Theatre Festival, Oman </li>
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<b>INVITED TO :</b><br />
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The Amman International Theatre Festival, Jordan<br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><b>ABOUT FESTIVALS</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>The Qadir Ali Baig Festival Hyderabad, </b>is an initiative to revive theatre culture in Hyderabad. 2009 saw performances by renowned theatre practitioners. There was Naseeruddin Shah's <i>Katha Collage </i>and<i> Ismat Aapa Ke Naam, Resham Ki Dor,</i> by Qadir Ali Baig, <i>Life, Love & Madness </i>by Alyque Padamsee, <i>Chehre, </i>by Usha Ganguly, <i>Maya Bazaar</i> by Surabhi Theatre, <i>Begum Barve </i>by Satish Alekar, <i>Else </i>by Hauke and Reinecke from Germany and <i>Mahim Junction, </i>by Sohaila Kapur. <i>MJ </i>was the only invitee from Delhi. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Bharat Rang Mahotsav, or The National School of Drama Festival, </b>is today acknowledged as the largest theatre festival of Asia dedicated solely to theatre. In addition to the national and international productions/ performances that are staged during the Festival, the fare also includes exhibitions, conferring of awards/tributes, interactive sessions with directors and performers for the general public and professionals, Photographic exhibitions featuring landmark productions, Open forums and meetings and a shorter festival in another city to which some of the productions travel. The last Bharat Rang Mahotsav, organized from 6-22 January 2010, hosted 76 performances drawn from across 13 countries. Special features of BRM XII were Natya Manthan – a two day round table, with participation by theatre scholars and practitioners from across India and abroad; and Natya Naad - special evenings of theatre music and song featuring the music of stalwarts and groups who have been integral to the theatre tradition of India. <i>Mahim Junction </i>was </div><div style="text-align: justify;">one of the selected few from Delhi.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>The Dubai Community Theatre & Arts Centre Festival, Dubai </b>officially launched the UAE's first multi-disciplinary arts festival on its 2009/10 season agenda.The season saw the hosting of a number of international artists and performers of music, dance, drama and film. <i>Jasmine & The Devil, The Tales of Peter Rabbit, Maz Jobrani, Horrible Histories, Animal Farm, Almost Maine, One Small Step </i>and <i>Mahim Junction </i>were invited under the drama category. <i>Mahim Junction </i>was the only Indian entry. . </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>The Original Theatre Festival in Muscat, Oman, </b>celebrated its third anniversary in 2010, with a series of six Indian plays by "highly renowned directors and actors", as the festival director, Dr. Sathish Nambiar, put it. The plays that performed were Rahul da Cunha’s <i>Chaos Theory, </i>Q Productions' <i>The President is Coming,</i> Manav Kaul's <i>Shakkar Ke Paanch Daane,</i> Dinyar Contractor's <i>Tere Bhi Chup Mere Bhi Chup,</i> Akash Khurana's <i>Jake’s Women </i>and Sohaila Kapur's <i>Mahim Junction, </i>which had the distinction of being the only play from Delhi. </div></div>Sohaila Kapurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15635655982878308942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8473889434754758095.post-79083008489874371492011-10-29T17:37:00.000+05:302011-10-29T17:37:04.850+05:30Celebrations<b>Jyotsna Sharma's Birthday celebrated during the show for The Indian Navy, in 2010<br />
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<b>Aviekal's birthday celebrations during rehearsals of MJ for the upcoming World Tour end of October. Included are the cast from MJ and Gaslight<br />
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<b>Celebrating Nandini Hoon and Abhimanyu Sharma's birthdays while rehearsing for MJ's World Tour in Oct 2011<br />
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<a href="http://www.bfm.my/mahim-junction-bollywood-musical.html?searched=mahim+junction&advsearch=exactphrase&highlight=ajaxSearch_highlight+ajaxSearch_highlight1">Radio Interview : Kuala Lumpur.</a><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Mahim Junction Brings Back Bollywood of the 70s </b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">Shafaat Ahmed <br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">DUBAI - Drama, love, passion, sleaze and foot-tapping music.Suhaila Kapur’s musical ‘Mahim Junction’ has every element that a successful Bollywood masala flick of the 70s had.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin: 8pt 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">A true tribute to the Bollywood of the 70s, the play premiered with a red carpet gala at DUCTAC, Mall of the Emirates on Thursday.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin: 8pt 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">Award-winning Hollywood-Bollywood director of films like ‘Elizabeth’ and ‘Mr. India’, Shekhar Kapur presented the play as a mark of support to his younger sister Suhaila.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin: 8pt 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">“I wish you well, it’s good for you to beat your elder brother at everything he does,” quipped the elder Kapur, in his opening remarks of the show.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin: 8pt 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">Set in a 70s’ slum adjacent to a Mumbai railway station, the play tries to tackle today’s burning issues in Bollywood’s own comical style with songs, dance and melodrama.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin: 8pt 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">A limp tea-seller willing to “sacrifice everything for his sister’s love”, a loveable drunk whose steps might be unsteady but not his conscience, a trans-dressing sex-worker who is a darling of many hearts, a greedy mother ready to sell off her daughter, a conniving police officer, a sleazy film producer who traps young girls promising them movie roles and most importantly two star-struck lovebirds — the characters of the play — not only seemed real but aptly portrayed Mumbai life at its filthy best.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin: 8pt 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">Writer-director Suhaila Kapur, who has hit plays like ‘Yeh Hai Mumbai Meri Jaan’ and ‘A Club of Her Own’ to her credit, brings out the essence and nuisance of Mumbai with every act, and ably puts her message of peace and communal harmony across.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin: 8pt 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">‘Mahim Junction’ was first performed to critical acclaim as part of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2002, where it ran to packed houses in one of the most prestigious venues in the city, the Traverse Theatre. It also recently premiered to a full house at the Ashok Theatre in New Delhi.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin: 8pt 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">The play, which has been well received by the theatre-lovers in Dubai, is part of DUCTAC’s Season 09/10 – the four-month arts extravaganza that features a host of high-calibre artists and performers from around the globe.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin: 8pt 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">The Season is the UAE’s very first multi-disciplinary festival, with arts, music and dance, drama and film events giving the community a rich cultural programme throughout the winter. For tickets or more information one can log on to <a href="http://www.ductac.org/"><span style="color: blue; letter-spacing: -0.1pt;">www.ductac.org</span></a> or call 04-3414777.</span></div></m:defjc></m:rmargin></m:lmargin></m:dispdef></m:smallfrac></div>Sohaila Kapurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15635655982878308942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8473889434754758095.post-55531197978836010212011-03-12T22:46:00.000+05:302011-03-12T22:46:00.378+05:30The National, Dubai<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUrbBQqUOWWAj_ms6GVSbFAVcYTJEmJ8fHECLplrOh0FFLvrLnqRLqzgIM3sUeYncPMCYbVLP1NkKLRYqEG84tOFXstuGMfgJWeLDj3OoKmAo2oHUa60camKOB-SST19kTFBz-BOMFAt0/s1600/logo-the-national.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="32" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUrbBQqUOWWAj_ms6GVSbFAVcYTJEmJ8fHECLplrOh0FFLvrLnqRLqzgIM3sUeYncPMCYbVLP1NkKLRYqEG84tOFXstuGMfgJWeLDj3OoKmAo2oHUa60camKOB-SST19kTFBz-BOMFAt0/s200/logo-the-national.png" width="200" /></a></div><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves/> <w:TrackFormatting/> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:DoNotPromoteQF/> <w:LidThemeOther>EN-US</w:LidThemeOther> <w:LidThemeAsian>X-NONE</w:LidThemeAsian> <w:LidThemeComplexScript>X-NONE</w:LidThemeComplexScript> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> <w:SplitPgBreakAndParaMark/> <w:DontVertAlignCellWithSp/> <w:DontBreakConstrainedForcedTables/> <w:DontVertAlignInTxbx/> <w:Word11KerningPairs/> <w:CachedColBalance/> </w:Compatibility> <w:BrowserLevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> <m:mathPr> <m:mathFont m:val="Cambria Math"/> <m:brkBin m:val="before"/> <m:brkBinSub m:val="--> <m:smallfrac m:val="off"> <m:dispdef> <m:lmargin m:val="0"> <m:rmargin m:val="0"> <m:defjc m:val="centerGroup"> <m:wrapindent m:val="1440"> <m:intlim m:val="subSup"> <m:narylim m:val="undOvr"> </m:narylim></m:intlim> </m:wrapindent><!--[endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" DefUnhideWhenUsed="true"
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span>The brother and sister act of Sohaila and Shekhar Kapur brings a touch of Bollywood glamour to Ductac – and a few family secrets, too</span></b></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span>Shekhar Kapur is so chic. In his dark suit that screamed “stylish label” and those lumpy trainers that are supposed to exercise your calf muscles he ambled into the foyer at Dubai Community Theatre and Arts Centre (Ductac) unannounced and clearly impressed by the buzz of activity.<br />
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Mothers collecting their offspring from dance classes and workshops at the centre were picking their way around workmen frantically securing the red carpet for a VIP event before the first night of Mahim Junction, the burlesque-style satire directed by Kapur’s younger sister Sohaila.<br />
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In a conspicuous act of brotherly affection, the charismatic director of Academy Award-winning movies such as Elizabeth and Elizabeth: The Golden Age flew in from Mumbai that morning to support Sohaila and to help drum up interest for potential sponsors of Ductac.<br />
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“As far as she’s concerned I’m just a marketing tool,” he laughed in his laid-back and self-effacing way. And market he did, skilfully working a room full of sponsors and potential sponsors, shaking hands, having his picture taken and stressing to everyone how important it is for the local community and business people to put their hands in their pockets and fund offbeat and unusual productions that you wouldn’t see in mainstream theatres. “It’s difficult to equate finance with theatre but you have to. <br />
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You need financial support if you have ambitions for this sort of centre,” he said.<br />
Mahim Junction, written and produced by Sohaila Kapur, is a satirical look at life through the prism of the 1970s Bollywood movies that the brother and sister adored as youngsters. The director, who started his working life as an accountant because his parents wanted him to have a “proper job”, was happy to talk up his little sister at his own expense and told an anecdote about how she took her show to the Edinburgh Fringe around the same time as he was co-producing the musical Bombay Dreams with Andrew Lloyd Webber in London’s West End. “She sent me a review from The Scotsman, a highly respected newspaper, that said, ‘Never mind that awful thing produced by Lloyd Webber, this is the one you should go and see’. <br />
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When I saw Andrew at breakfast later that morning the newspaper was on his table and he had noticed the name Kapur and asked me if we were related. Of course I said ‘absolutely not’,” he said to gales of laughter in the packed Centrepoint Theatre.<br />
Kapur, who is eight years older than Sohaila, said their relationship when they were growing up was typical older brother and younger sister. “Older brothers tend to be protective of their sisters and think they know what’s best for them but very quickly she got the measure of me and used to blackmail me, threatening to tell our parents if I was seeing a girl, if I didn’t do what she wanted,” Kapur explained.<br />
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“She did show me the script of Mahim Junction but I soon realised that a theatrical experience was completely different from a cinema experience and she knows how to do that much better than I do. But I think it was important to her that I saw it. The format is not a bit like the original village folk theatre, called nautanki, with its singers and storytellers. Hindi cinema was based on that and it’s the only form of cinema that fought off Hollywood.”<br />
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Sohaila herself just smiled when told of her brother’s recollections of her childhood blackmailing techniques. “It was just the opposite. He used to try to make me give him my pocket money so he could spend it on girlfriends and he would put dolls and my toys on the overhead fan and threaten to scatter them all over the place and break them so I would get into trouble.”<br />
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Nevertheless she clearly adores her big brother, of whom she is extremely proud. “I think he has attained what very few people in the world could. His imagination is amazingly fertile. He comes up with the darndest of ideas and he makes them work. He has the courage of his convictions and he has proved himself right.<br />
“I think it’s very sweet of him to come here tonight and I’m truly touched.”</span></span></div></m:defjc></m:rmargin></m:lmargin></m:dispdef></m:smallfrac></div>Sohaila Kapurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15635655982878308942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8473889434754758095.post-1631390446493189312011-03-02T17:28:00.003+05:302011-03-02T17:29:28.695+05:30TRAILER - MAHIM JUNCTION<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />
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</div>Sohaila Kapurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15635655982878308942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8473889434754758095.post-56906598158969504362011-03-01T11:05:00.005+05:302011-03-08T22:37:42.988+05:30Mahim Junction in a short presentation<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />
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</div>Sohaila Kapurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15635655982878308942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8473889434754758095.post-67548110333108284422011-02-25T15:22:00.000+05:302011-02-25T15:22:35.638+05:30Mirror, Mumbai<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-8pIj0DxYR7B13zFKC5qd9JmcTsTy4kqILsa5huo2OUc_IKqybmO2qQaVZItepyfn41mEftXBt3486Od4CYsUNRznrd8atvcNY9IaDgwWI6nLOn8JSF069d2uxgIiw4vVZHp5fzlpKks/s1600/IMG_0004.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-8pIj0DxYR7B13zFKC5qd9JmcTsTy4kqILsa5huo2OUc_IKqybmO2qQaVZItepyfn41mEftXBt3486Od4CYsUNRznrd8atvcNY9IaDgwWI6nLOn8JSF069d2uxgIiw4vVZHp5fzlpKks/s640/IMG_0004.jpg" width="427" /></a></div><br />
</div>Sohaila Kapurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15635655982878308942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8473889434754758095.post-27127774057501283332011-02-25T15:19:00.000+05:302011-02-25T15:19:20.785+05:30Midday, Mumbai<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5YiFj0fTerWlsY6HUBYzuhz5NSDzCgI-uimwce0pjxCgN65UpE1RHyJpfir3ixhe88KtGVNAMFRosQ2QD4DjuMqzfpgRmIFBXCbLnB-eSIv4PPFQvV-pVMNGMEoFMucgQpkl9BZJld08/s1600/News+MJ+Midday+23+July.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5YiFj0fTerWlsY6HUBYzuhz5NSDzCgI-uimwce0pjxCgN65UpE1RHyJpfir3ixhe88KtGVNAMFRosQ2QD4DjuMqzfpgRmIFBXCbLnB-eSIv4PPFQvV-pVMNGMEoFMucgQpkl9BZJld08/s640/News+MJ+Midday+23+July.jpg" width="590" /></a></div><br />
</div>Sohaila Kapurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15635655982878308942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8473889434754758095.post-79471755016722622582011-02-25T14:03:00.002+05:302011-03-12T21:58:55.607+05:30Malay Mail, Malaysia<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div><b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;"></span></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivJN3yzupiTCcTkThFMQIir1K9d9w6GK5JxKH0gI96VjWdSM-AA9VSKpLddfq7WmgcXQZlxitiuv8s5vgxElJn3NdtBOCg_9WKISqrRstPK3J6_9Ma7WnHxnMiL1PbPiGVvznYr-s942w/s1600/image001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivJN3yzupiTCcTkThFMQIir1K9d9w6GK5JxKH0gI96VjWdSM-AA9VSKpLddfq7WmgcXQZlxitiuv8s5vgxElJn3NdtBOCg_9WKISqrRstPK3J6_9Ma7WnHxnMiL1PbPiGVvznYr-s942w/s1600/image001.jpg" /></a></div><h2 style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b><i><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: 20pt; font-style: italic;"> </span></span></i></b></h2><h2 style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b><i><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: 20pt; font-style: italic;"> </span></span></i></b></h2><h2 style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b><i><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: 20pt; font-style: italic;"> </span></span></i></b></h2><h2 style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b><i><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: 20pt; font-style: italic;">Get ready to laugh!</span></span></i></b></h2><h2 style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b><i><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: 20pt; font-style: italic;"> </span></span></i></b></h2><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;">Thursday, December 16th, 2010 | by Anu Venugopal</span></span></b><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"></span></span></b></div><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">BOLLYWOOD fans had reveled in the spicy treat dished out by Sohalia Kapur and friends at Kuala Lumpur Performing Arts Centre (KLPac) recently.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Performed the bonafide cast from the land of <i><i><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">laddus </span></span></i></i>and Shah Rukh Khan, the energetic actors gave the audience a whole lot of <i><i><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">masala </span></span></i></i>and laughs from start to finish in the musical <i><i><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Mahim Junction.</span></span></i></i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Written and directed by Kapur, the story is set in a local train platform in suburban Mumbai. Rahim (Rachit Bahal), is a local <i><i><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">dada </span></span></i></i>(big brother-leader), a good guy with a heart of gold who is in love with Radha (Jyotsna Sharma), the beauty who has many men vying for her attention and affections.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Coming from different faiths, they fear their respective families will not accept their love as they meet secretly and profess their undying love for one another. Their fears are not unrealistic, as Radha's ruthless mother Bai (Kaveri Ganguly), would rather sell her daughter to the highest bidder than help her marry the man she loves.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Luckily, Radha's physically-challenged brother Ramu (Shivam Pradhan) is ready to sacrifice anything for his sister and hopes for her happiness with Rahim.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Together with a host of other charismatic slum dwellers, the star-crossed lovers have to get themselves into sticky situations - whether landing in jail or being cajoled into being the new face of film by an unscrupulous producer, as one would expect in Hindi films.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">The difference in <i><i><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Mahim Junction </span></span></i></i>and other typical Bollywood films that it is a production that combines story, cinema and nostalgia with singing and dancing snapshots of Bollywood films in the 1970's.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Entertaining right from the start, the show started even before the actors stepped up on stage, with Flower Girl (Shifali Kumar) and Paan Wallah or vendor (Sandeep Bhardwaj) offering unsuspecting theatre goers a chance to buy their wares outside the doors of Pentas 2.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Performed in English with bits of Hindi thrown in, it combines a love story with a political slant - resulting in a captivating plot. Intercepted by snippets of old Hindi hits from the golden era, the historically-themed performance got the audience attention throughout the two-hour show.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">The beauty of Kapur's updated version of <i><i><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Yeh Hai Mumbai Meri Jaan</span></span></i></i>, which was first performed in 2008, lies in the rich, deep and likeable characters of Mumbai's slums. Not only do Bahal and Sharma play the part of lovers with finesse, the supporting actors too shine in their efforts to create a likeable, Bollywood production.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Film producer DDLJ (Neeraj Yaadav) was oozing deviousness in every scene so easily, it was not difficult to believe that he was the heroine's adversary. His fondness for speaking English with a Punjabi accent was pure entertainment while the cross dressing eunuch Aisha (Aviekal Kakkar) brought down the house with her infectious sense of humour and mannerisms.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Wannabe politician, terrorist and slum dweller Randy (Ssumier S. Pasricha) played his three parts credibly, so too drunkard Johnny (Anand Roopak Kathpalia) and tea-stall owner Ramu (Shivam Pradhan).</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Although it was not the traditional musical where performers burst into song and dance throughout the show, <i><i><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Mahim Junction </span></span></i></i>captured the hearts of classic Bollywood fans with its old songs, entertaining dialogue and energy from the entire cast.</span></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8473889434754758095.post-66994833305442120762011-02-25T13:55:00.000+05:302011-02-25T13:55:44.333+05:30Khaleej Times, Dubai<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFFkA3sb438H4MVXQM7lmFdVYFg4UsJITfdOOSqd0-ML_hVXtXu8V4Q50VBEVlbCV27vAqaWhFVlkW3yCtbd5GuQk8_ij9QePf9HIKk-oZq64hCKq1qTZlUBxvbdH5aL7y8zs63mLdsVw2/s1600/KhaleejTimesLogonew.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFFkA3sb438H4MVXQM7lmFdVYFg4UsJITfdOOSqd0-ML_hVXtXu8V4Q50VBEVlbCV27vAqaWhFVlkW3yCtbd5GuQk8_ij9QePf9HIKk-oZq64hCKq1qTZlUBxvbdH5aL7y8zs63mLdsVw2/s1600/KhaleejTimesLogonew.jpg" /></a></div><div class="KtStoryHdl" id="KTStoryBox" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Theatrical junction </b></span></div><div class="ktblue9" id="KTSourcedate">Davina Raisinghani <br />
<strong><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.1pt; line-height: 115%;"><em><span style="color: blue;"></span></em></span></span></strong><u><strong><em><b><a href="http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticleNew.asp?section=citytimes&xfile=data/citytimes/2010/february/citytimes_february145.xml"><u style="color: black; font-weight: normal;">Link of article in Khaleej Times Online Portal</u></a></b></em></strong></u><b><u><strong><em></em></strong></u></b><em><b><u></u></b></em></div><div class="ktblue9" id="KTSourcedate"><em><b><u><strong></strong></u></b></em><br />
17 February 2010 </div><div class="KtGray10" id="KTStorydtl"> <span class="blkin10"> After showcasing their tribute to “Bollywood in the 70s” in India, Sohaila Kapur and her crew are quite excited to bring their production, Mahim Junction, to Dubai. </span><h1 style="margin: 13pt 0in;"><em><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><img alt="" src="http://www.khaleejtimes.com/images/pg6_16feb10.jpg" style="float: right; margin: 4px;" />City Times</span></em><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"> caught up with the playwright-turned-director and her actors as they prepare to ‘wow’ local audiences<em></em></span></h1><div class="MsoBodyText" style="margin: 13pt 0in;"><strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">THERE WAS A</span></strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"> time, when Sohaila Kapur’s sole claim to fame was being Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Shekhar Kapur’s sister. But the uber successful premiere of her play <em>Mahim Junction</em> at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2002 changed all that – now she is hailed as the creator of a critically acclaimed and equally lucrative theatrical production.</span></div><div class="MsoBodyTextFirstIndent" style="margin: 13pt 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Post touring with the show in parts of Europe and Delhi and Hyderabad in India, the playwright-turned-director has finally decided to brings her musical to the city; “This will mark our first time in the Middle East,” noted Kapur, from her residence in Delhi, when we caught up with her over the phone.</span></div><div class="MsoBodyTextFirstIndent" style="margin: 13pt 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">“The reason we decided to bring <em>Mahim Junction</em> to Dubai is because of the extremely large expatriate population living there. The first generation of Indians there mostly grew up watching Hindi films in the 70s. And since the play is a tribute to Bollywood in the 70s, it’s the perfect place to present the show.”</span></div><div class="MsoBodyTextFirstIndent" style="margin: 13pt 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">The director further claimed that the production is also intended to start up a dialogue on the subject of putting Indian film of this generation on stage.</span></div><div class="MsoBodyTextFirstIndent" style="margin: 13pt 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">“Therefore it is part of a whole new genre of theatre. Our story is simple: we’ve got the standard hero, heroine and villain. But essentially it pays tribute to the values that existed in old Mumbai and Bollywood; that of communal harmony and an egalitarian society.”</span></div><div class="MsoBodyTextFirstIndent" style="margin: 13pt 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">The feature tells the tale of a young couple – a Hindu girl and a Muslim boy – residing in the slums of Mumbai on the platform of well-known railway station Mahim Junction. </span></div><div class="MsoBodyTextFirstIndent" style="margin: 13pt 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">The duo want to get married, however, their elders want nothing more than to discourage this inter-communal union with the covert reason being the classic, ‘he’s just too poor for our daughter’ argument.</span></div><div class="MsoBodyTextFirstIndent" style="margin: 13pt 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">“What makes it different is the fact that it is an affectionate spoof of vintage Bollywood. When I sat down to write this play in Canada, I was low because I was away from my husband. I thought about my happiest moments, and the Hindi movies I watched while growing up immediately came to mind. They were fantasy films that helped you escape. That was what inspired <em>Mahim Junction</em>.”</span></div><div class="MsoBodyTextFirstIndent" style="margin: 13pt 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">So if you fancy a night of theatre and are a patron of classic Indian cinema from the 70s decade, then head down to DUCTAC this weekend for a fantasy-filled, musical extravaganza.</span></div><h3 style="margin: 13pt 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Do a little jig at </span></h3><div class="MsoBodyText" style="margin: 13pt 0in;"><strong><em><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">the theatre</span></em></strong><strong><em><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: -0.1pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></em></strong></div><div class="MsoBodyText" style="margin: 13pt 0in;"><em><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Mahim Junction</span></em><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"> contains multiple, but brief, song-and-dance sequences. Most of them are medleys of old songs from Hindi movies and are orchestrated by renowned Bollywood choreographer Vikram Samsung, who runs his very own dance classes in Delhi.</span></div><h4 style="margin: 13pt 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Lending brotherly support</span></h4><div class="MsoBodyText" style="margin: 13pt 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Attending the red carpet event of <em>Mahim Junction</em>’s Dubai premiere will be Sohaila Kapur’s sibling – the director of the Oscar-nominated <em>Elizabeth</em> - Shekhar Kapur. On the show’s opening night VIP ticket holders will enjoy a pre-show reception in DUCTAC’s Gallery of Light, where they will have the opportunity to meet and greet the evening’s guest of honour.</span></div><h5 style="margin: 13pt 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><em>Hide, a ‘sleazy villain’ is on his way…</em></span></h5><div class="MsoBodyText" style="margin: 13pt 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">No story is ever complete without the injection of a nefarious, underhanded scheme hatched by a despicable, villainous personality. In <em>Mahim Junction</em> this task falls into the capable hands of theatre actor Neeraj Yadav.</span></div><div class="MsoBodyTextFirstIndent" style="margin: 13pt 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">“I play the sleazy villain you generally got to see in Hindi movies in the 70s. And like in those days, the real structure comes into the story with his entrance. His character is such that he strongly believes in the concept of the casting couch and uses his power and money to lure women into his bed,” elucidated Yadav over the phone.</span></div><div class="MsoBodyTextFirstIndent" style="margin: 13pt 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">The actor joined director Sohaila Kapur’s production in early 2009 and has been working with the crew ever since. So far he has toured with the show to different cities in India, but this weekend will be his first performance out of the country.</span></div><div class="MsoBodyTextFirstIndent" style="margin: 13pt 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">“It’s been great – it’s a hilarious play and audiences respond with uncontrollable laughter, cheering, whistling and even dancing. We’re hoping to get the same sort of reaction from people in Dubai.”</span></div><div class="MsoBodyTextFirstIndent" style="margin: 13pt 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">At the time, Yadav was occupied with making last-minute preparations before getting on an early morning flight to the city. </span></div><div class="MsoBodyTextFirstIndent" style="margin: 13pt 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">“Things are a little hectic right now, because we’re hoping we don’t forget any costumes or props. As soon as we land there, we’ll drop our bags at the hotel, head down to the auditorium, set up and start rehearsing. After all, we want to justify being invited to perform in Dubai.”</span></div><div class="MsoBodyTextFirstIndent" style="margin: 13pt 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Lastly, Yadav explained that his future plans were to remain in Delhi whilst working with as many theatrical productions as possible - moving to Mumbai city is currently just not a part of his plans.</span></div><h6 style="margin: 13pt 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">The making of a hero</span></h6><div class="MsoBodyTextFirstIndent" style="margin: 13pt 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Actor Rachit Behl had to work rather hard to perfect his role in<em> Mahim Junction</em> – he had to have the trademark attitude that made the heroes in the 70s likeable and had to work on imitating their dance styles flawlessly. </span></div><div class="MsoBodyTextFirstIndent" style="margin: 13pt 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">“But the hardest thing to do were to get the gestures just right. Back in the 70s the heroes were larger than life and so were their talks, walks and hand gestures. So getting my actions to be as loud as theirs used to be took a lot of hard work.”</span></div><div class="MsoBodyTextFirstIndent" style="margin: 13pt 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">The actor plays a typical slum-dweller who is in love with a girl and will do anything to end up with her. Unfortunately for this honest fellow, him being Muslim proves a deterrent to his union with the Hindu girl.</span></div><div class="MsoBodyTextFirstIndent" style="margin: 13pt 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">“Things are not necessarily as bad as they used to be back then. Times and people have changed. Communal problems still exist but not on the same level. <em>Mahim Junction</em> explores that,” continued Behl.</span></div><div class="MsoBodyTextFirstIndent" style="margin: 13pt 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">The artist has been part of the production since last year and has toured with it in Delhi and Hyderabad.</span></div><div class="MsoBodyTextFirstIndent" style="margin: 13pt 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">“We are a little nervous about bringing the performance to Dubai. Of course we’re also excited, but, very honestly, we don’t know how the audiences there will react because we’re unaware of the theatre scene there. We’re hoping they enjoy seeing the story unfold on stage as much as those in other places have.”</span></div><div class="MsoListCxSpFirst" style="margin: 13pt 0in 13pt 0.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">EVENT DETAILS:</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: -0.1pt; line-height: 115%;"></span><strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></strong></b></div><div class="MsoListCxSpFirst" style="margin: 13pt 0in 13pt 0.25in;"><strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">What: </span></strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Musical Mahim Junction</span></div><div class="MsoListCxSpLast" style="margin: 13pt 0in 13pt 0.25in;"><strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">When: </span></strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">8pm, Thursday to Saturday, February 18 to 20</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 10pt; margin: 13pt 158pt 13pt 0in;"><strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: -0.1pt;">Where: </span></strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: -0.1pt;">Centrepoint Theatre, DUCTAC, Level 2, Mall of the Emirates</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 10pt; margin: 13pt 158pt 13pt 0in;"><strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: -0.1pt;">Tickets: </span></strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: -0.1pt;">VIP with access to special red carpet screening – Dhs500</span></div><div class="MsoBodyTextFirstIndent" style="margin: 13pt 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Normal – Dhs150</span></div><div class="MsoBodyText" style="margin: 13pt 0in;"><em><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">For further information, please contact 04 - 3414777</span></em> </div><em><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></em><br />
<div class="MsoBodyText" style="margin: 13pt 0in;"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="mailto:davina@khaleejtimes.com"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.1pt; line-height: 115%;"><em><span style="color: blue;">davina@khaleejtimes.com</span></em></span></a></span></strong></div><div class="MsoBodyText" style="margin: 13pt 0in;"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.1pt; line-height: 115%;"><em><span style="color: blue;"><b><a href="http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticleNew.asp?section=citytimes&xfile=data/citytimes/2010/february/citytimes_february145.xml"><u style="color: black; font-weight: normal;">Link of article in Khaleej Times Online Portal</u></a></b> </span></em></span></span></strong></div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8473889434754758095.post-47490525302912991052011-02-13T11:14:00.003+05:302011-02-22T23:05:08.475+05:30Performance at the National Centre for the Performing Arts, Mumbai<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">National Centre for the Performing Arts <br />
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</a></div></div>Sohaila Kapurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15635655982878308942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8473889434754758095.post-1504530492328894222010-11-28T23:05:00.007+05:302016-11-08T12:30:23.035+05:30MAHIM JUNCTION<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
A RETRO - BOLLYWOOD PLAY<br />
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`Mahim Junction’, written and directed by Sohaila Kapur, tells the tale of India’s diverse people, with their differing religions, languages and cultural habits, and how, despite these differences, they are united and fight any attempt to divide or exploit them. Set in a period which flaunted larger than life heroes like Rajesh Khanna, Amitabh Bachchan, Indira Gandhi, Datta Samant and the godfather-like dons, Haji Mastaan and Karim Lala… the story harks back to a time when Bollywood heroes wore their hearts on their sleeves and the villains paved the mean streets of Mumbai with gold. Yes, it was the suave seventies. <br />
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Focusing on the love story between a Muslim boy and a Hindu girl, the play spans a vast canvas in the joie de vivre style of Hindi cinema of the 70s, tackling contemporary issues through its traditional epic style. Replete with bell-bottomed slumdogs, shimmying heroines, kaleidoscopic dancers, corny comedians and horny villains, the musical draws a portrait of a city that was and still is, India’s commercial hub. . In fact, as a film unraveling on stage, it is perhaps the first attempt in India to marry Bollywood to the stage. <br />
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The musical comedy first opened at the Edinburgh fringe as `Yeh Hai Mumbai Meri Jaan’, and won the Herald Devil Award. It was subsequently invited for a five city tour of the UK by the UK Arts Council. It then went on to perform in Singapore, Hyderabad, Delhi, Dubai, Muscat, Mumbai, and is slated to travel to China and Malaysia this winter, apart from performing again in Mumbai.<br />
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<b>SYNOPSIS </b> <br />
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It is an affectionate spoof on Bollywood films of the 70s.The story is set in a slum that has encroached on a disused local train platform in suburban Mumbai. The motley crowd that inhabits the slum are Rahim, the local dada, a good Samaritan, in love with Radha, the local belle who dreams of becoming a film star. There is Ma, her harridan mother, who would rather sell her daughter to a lascivious old priest than allow her to marry the love of her life, who is poor. Greed is concealed under the garb of communal differences. There is Ramu, Radha’s physically challenged brother, who is ready to sacrifice his life for his sister. Adding colour is Johnny the drunk, Rahim’s friend, who nurses a bottle while dissipating his trials and tribulations in an alcoholic stupor. He eyes Ayesha, the sharp-witted cross dresser, who is a street walker with a golden heart. <br />
Who can forget the feisty villain of the piece, the film producer, DDLJ Kaladhanda, who uses Randy Bhai, a relatively innocent Harvard graduate and an NRI raring to do his bit for the country, to further his diabolical schemes. <br />
The musical sings and dances its way through two stories, a love tale between a Hindu girl and a Muslim boy and that of Kaladhanda, who provides the political sub text and brings the two together in true Bollywood fashion for a happy ending. A retro film-- stirred, mixed and spiced up with contemporary sensibility.<br />
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For more info, pics & <b>updates </b>visit <a href="http://www.mahimjunction.in/">www.mahimjunction.in</a><br />
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<b>PRESS</b> <br />
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<b>U.K. </b>(In its previous incarnation as `Yeh Hai Mumbai Meri Jaan’ in 2002-3) <br />
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If you are about to purchase a ticket for Andrew Lloyd Webber’s latest assault on culture, `Bombay Dreams’, then please don’t: the real action is in Edinburgh this August. Fringe shows do not come bigger than Sohaila Kapur’s Yeh Hai… <br />
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---Glasgow & Edinburgh Events Guide <br />
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What Kapur and Roy have achieved is an engagingly vivid evocation of how life in India connects with Bollywood Films in more ways than just watching on screen escapist romance & adventure… the sheer energy of the musical numbers and its unexpected edge of political home truths might well surprise and delight you. <br />
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----- The Herald (Edinburgh)<br />
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The Traverse is the venue for the show that won this year’s Herald Devil awarded for embracing the spirit of the Fringe ……it went to….a celebration of Bollywood, `Yeh Hai Mumbai Meri Jaan…’ <br />
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----- The Herald (Edinburgh)<br />
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All the passion and cheesy plot devices of classic Bollywood musical cinema has come to the Traverse in a production that sings, dances and even has a political edge….at every turn of the plot, the cast breaks out into song. Big allegorical numbers that turn the city’s dusty streets into paths by rivers of gold.<br />
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----- Edinburgh Evening News <br />
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The bald headed energy with which `Yeh Hai Mumbai…’ tackles this key subject of corruption in Indian politics, its links with the huge cash machine that is Bollywood and its connection with the deliberate incitement of tensions between the Hindu and Muslim Communities, that make the show well worth seeing.<br />
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-----The Scotsman (Edinburgh) <br />
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<b>INDIA:</b> <br />
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Projecting the lives of slum-dwellers living next to railway tracks as a window to the state of the nation, Sohaila Kapur's musical Mahim Junction draws a portrait of Mumbai with a whirlwind resonance of the golden era of Indian cinema.<br />
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----Indo Asian News Service (Delhi)<br />
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The lead actors do a fine job in endearing themselves to the audience. This is to the credit of their histrionics and the director’s instructions. Tariq Vasudeva, who plays Johnny the alcoholic, benefits through some smart lines, but more so, because of his own convincing performance. Pallav Chander, not only makes Ayesha the cross-dresser his own, but makes her ours as well. Having donned the sari with grace and the provocative blouse with ease he sails through the show on a wave of talent. Karam and Jyotsana make a convincing couple in difficult love. With a large cast of nearly 20 actors, the stage is always a flurry of movement helping to create a Bombay platform.<br />
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--The Hindu (Delhi)<br />
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Mahim Junction is an amalgam of film and theatre. …..it showcases a time when heroes wore their hearts on their sleeves and rich villains puffed cigars on the mean streets of Mumbai…!<br />
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--Asian Age (Delhi)<br />
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Bollywood and theatre are regarded as old foes…..Director Sohaila Kapur, in a surprising turn of events.. is…peacemaker in what reviews have called `an entertaining mix of nostalgia and cinema’. Her much lauded play Mahim Junction has finally made its way to the city that inspired it.<br />
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----DNA (Mumbai)<br />
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True to its time, the characterization is loud with amplified expression. Re-enacting the 70s meant going beyond the floral shirts, orange bell bottoms and pointy white shoes. So, the friendly neighbourhood chaiwallah is handicapped, and greets people with a Bhojpuri song, and also has an opinion on everthing…Sohaila Kapur’s Mahim Junction captures Hindi cinema of the 70s in all its over-the-top glory.<br />
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----Mumbai Mirror (Mumbai)<br />
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If you are a 70s Bollywood buff, we suggest you head to the Mahim Junction. Well that is the name of Suhaila Kapur’s new play….Having wowed audiences in the UK, Dubai, Muscat and in parts of India, the play is all set to bring the glitz, glamour and issues of the 70s back to the stage.<br />
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--Mid Day (Mumbai)<br />
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The play in English lovingly spoofs the stereotypes of the 70s and recalls the nostalgia. Complete with song and dance, coy women, lecherous villains, comic cops and kitschy morality, the story is set in a slum in suburban Mumbai.<br />
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----Hindustan Times (Mumbai)<br />
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<b>UAE:</b><br />
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Drama, love, passion, sleaze and foot tapping music. Suhaila Kapur’s musical, Mahim Junction has every element that a successful Bollywood masala flick of the 70s had. …Writer, director Suhaila Kapur …brings out the essence and nuisance of Mumbai with every act, and ably puts her message of peace and communal harmony across…the characters of the play – not only seemed real but aptly portrayed Mumbai life.<br />
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----Khaleej Times (Dubai)<br />
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An entertaining mix of nostalgia and cinema, Mahim Junction is a tribute to the city of dreams Mumbai and its favourite child, Bollywood.<br />
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----Times of Oman (Muscat)<br />
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<b>MALAYSIA</b><br />
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Bollywood fans had reveled in the spicy treat dished out by Sohalia Kapur and friends at Kuala Lumpur Performing Arts Centre (KLPac) recently.<br />
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Performed the bonafide cast from the land of laddus and Shah Rukh Khan, the energetic actors gave the audience a whole lot of masala and laughs from start to finish in the musical Mahim Junction... The beauty of Kapur's updated version of Yeh Hai Mumbai Meri Jaan, which was first performed in 2008, lies in the rich, deep and likeable characters of Mumbai's slums. ....<br />
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.....Although it was not the traditional musical where performers burst into song and dance throughout the show, Mahim Junction captured the hearts of classic Bollywood fans with its old songs, entertaining dialogue and energy from the entire cast.<br />
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---- Malay Mail (Kuala Lumpur)</div>
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