In the 2020 Netflix film Yeh Ballet, Nizamuddin J Shah played the brother of the ballet dancer who supported him in a big way. In real life too, he can be found training a bunch of slum kids in street theatre under the Vashi Flyover or the Wadala Park in Mumbai.
Street plays are powerful message amplifiers and 25-year-old Shah is gearing up with his team to perform in the villages around the metropolis to talk about vaccinations. “We mix local language, film songs, humour and social message to entertain audiences,” he says.
Maharashtra was in lockdown earlier this year, suspending street plays. Street theatre needs people coming together to watch. “We plan to recruit volunteers who will ensure that social distancing is followed. After all, we are trying to create awareness about Covid facts,” he adds.
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Two indie filmmakers from Hyderabad, Rohit Penumatsa and Camp Sasi, would like to turn the tables on OTT (Over The Top) streaming content. Their foil ATT aka Any Time Theatre. The response to ATT’s premiere on their theatrical platform avanticinema.com has convinced the two young men that their nine-month-old Avanti Cinema could become a successful mobile app soon; over 10,000 people are expected to buy tickets for the first official release, Story Discussion (s2), which had an audience retention and engagement of about 70 percent a dream debut. Avanti Cinema, the duo claim, has so far introduced over 40 actors in more than 10 films and series. “It was we who discovered Rahul Ramakrishna who had a role in our first (unreleased) film Sheesh Mahal. He is now in demand in Tollywood. Vivek Sagar was the music director and Gnana Shekar VS, the director of photography,” they say. In the past, Penumatsa and Sasi have made student films, short films, web series, and feature films with
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As India awaits the Third Wave, the lessons of the recent past could lay the groundwork for a new, caring world.
There is a Close Relationships Laboratory at the University of Georgia in the US that studies the development, maintenance and impact of close relationships on the health and well-being of people. Its director, the well-regarded American psychology professor Richard B Slatcher, has launched a biweekly study ‘Love in the Time of COVID’ (you can take it too; just log in) to examine the effects of the pandemic on human bonding.