New Sense

Story telling was one of the earliest forms of art I was introduced to. In it I found my first super star, my grandmother. I remember fondly how my sister and I would huddle up around her and insist that she tells us a story. She would sit down calmly and vividly explain to us the details of the scenes and characters that we ended up falling in love with.

One of my biggest influences from this part of my life was the story of “Chandrahasa”, the mythical south Indian king whose namesake I became. Considering the importance that stories had in my life, I always considered stories as a wonderful way to reach out to people.

Yesterday I had the wonderful opportunity to attend a single day workshop on story telling. The workshop was organized by Hippocampus as a part of the HOO’s Tales – Carnival of Stories. Conducted by professional story tellers, the event was a wonderful reminder about the power of stories.

Conducted by world renowned story tellers Jeeva Raghunath and Craig Jerkins, the workshop was a wonderful mix of learning an ancient art form, learning about how to communicate and reach out to children and taking a walk down memory lane listening to stories again.

With a diverse group which included teachers, parents, grand mothers and IT professionals, the workshop was wonderfully entertaining and enlightening. During its course we were ourselves made to perform and we had short discussions about what worked and why. During the course of the evening we had all woken up that hidden story teller within us and it simply felt great.

I personally believe that events like these are a must for young parents. The amount of experience and insight to be gained is enormous and who knows it might turn you into that cool parent

Ps: The Carnival of Stories continue in Chennai for the next couple of days, If you can attend the workshop. Details: Carnival Of Stories

There are four concerts I have always wanted to attend. Two are artists that I immensly appreciate and two are bands that I have listened to for years. The bands are Euphoria and Strings. The artists are Kailash Kher and KK. At different times in the last couple of years I have missed every single opportunity to attend their concerts but yesterday my luck took a lovely U turn…

I was informed about the concert by Chaithra thru this tweet announcing that she had won VIP passes to the concert. I was simply excited about the concert and replied to her asking when and where it was happening… I was hoping to get tickets online if they were available(they werent ). Anyway she replied back a while later asking if I wanted the tickets. And jumped at the opportunity…
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I dont like Multiplexes. I like the ability to get tickets without standing in long queues and to know that I can manage to get tickets for a movie even on its very first day, without taking a day off from office. I thank the multiplexes for that.

But multiplexes have slowly killed off the movie experience that I love and cherish so much. The feeling of being in a theater with 350 other people, the screams and the whistles, the hooting and the jeering… You know the whole feeling of “going to a movie”.

Thats why I cherish the few theaters that still have that magic. Rex, Urvashi and (to some extent) Fame Shankarnag (all in Bangalore) still have that feeling in them. All the other beautiful theaters are now malls with Multiplexes in them. I understand the competition is hard to keep up with and the population exploding movie going is a very popular thing… In a way, I am still happy that despite the rat race there are still a few real theaters out there.

Last evening when I went to watch Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani, that feeling came back and boy did it come back with a revenge. The crowd was the most awesome crowd I have watched a movie with. They were screaming for every joke and actually singing along with a few songs. The cheering when a guest star came was amazing and the laughter was addictive. Forget the movie, the crowd made my day

All that brought back memories of a long time back, before all the black tie multiplexes took over. I know its futile to live in the past but for one evening it felt nice to be back there

MISF!T is revealing its brand new play “Pancake Helen” to the public this weekend. The Satirical whodunit will truly leave you in splits…

This is one of the plays I have been looking forward to watch for a while now. Ever since I first read the play I have wanted to be a part of it but unforeseen circumstances kept me away from the play… But now the play is here! I am thrilled that it is going to be performed this weekend and the fact that a very dear friend of mine, Venky is directing it, is truly a bonus. The ensemble is some of the best actors I have seen and shared the stage with.

Trust me this is one play you wouldn’t want to miss…

Dates and Time
SATURDAY 24th OCTOBER – 7.30 PM
SUNDAY 25th OCTOBER – 4 PM & 7.30 PM

For details about how to get the tickets and Directions to the Venue Click Here.

A couple of weeks ago, I had been to Kanteerva Indoor Stadium in Bangalore to pick up my entry to the 10k run. Outside the stadium I was pleasantly surprised to find the 2008 Force India car.

The car didnt do great in the world championship but it looked gorgeous(as every F1 car looks). I spent a little time near the car snapping it in different angles.
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