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Actress Urvashi Rautela is spotted taking a selfie at the launch of her mobile app at a Juhu five star, yesterday. Pic/Nimesh Dave
An Indo-Welsh jugalbandi
We love creative collaborations, and this one sounds particularly promising. Sisters, a collaborative project between Junoon and National Theatre Wales, is a contemporary work by a group of artists from Wales and India, whose cultural roots and histories are linked to the Indian sub-continent. The project is in its research and development stage currently, and the Indian team includes Junoon's Sameera Iyengar (in pic), actor and writer Sushama Deshpande, object theatre practitioner Choiti Ghosh, playwright Sapan Saran and visual artist Tejashree Ingawale. The collaboration seeks to explore questions like what it means to be a woman in today's India and the UK, and what defines home. Artists from Wales will arrive in India later this month, and the efforts are directed at a full-fledged theatre production.
Let's hear it for the Lipstick rappers
The movie is set to release this week, but the female cast of Lipstick Under my Burkha is already making headlines. Recently, we came across the rap song, Ain't no Stoppin' by the Lipstick Crew. The fun track has them talking about breaking the glass ceiling, discussions on marital status, and putting women on the map. Each of the actresses has a separate rapping section, with their own rap names. Ratna Pathak Shah aka Rhyming Pathak Shah raps about, 'Made a career, stood proud and tall. And all they want to know is who is the man behind it all?' and Ahana Kumra aka Ahana KumRap gives us the slogan, 'Once you go feminist, you never go back'. Then there's Konkona Sen Sharma aka Hip Hopna Sen Sharma and Plabita Borthakur as MC FlowBetta. It's a fun rap and whets our appetite to watch these rockstars light up the screen.
Mush finds a new audience
Lovers of mush and fans of romance novelist Durjoy Datta have a reason to cheer. Datta's book, World's Best Boyfriend, is set to be adapted into a web series by FremantleMedia in collaboration with Penguin Random House India. The book is about the teenage love story of Dhruv and Aranya. It follows the now popular trope — the duo start out hating each other and eventually fall in love.
But, fans will have to wait till December for the series to launch. While you wait, you can keep busy reading Datta's latest work, The Boy Who Loved.
On air with Gary Mehigan
As you count down the wait for the new season of Masterchef Australia to air in India, and if you miss the dashing judges and learning about new and innovative cooking, then Gary Mehigan is here to help. Plate to call Home is his new podcast on food, which features foodie conversations with people who love what they do as it follows the path of ingredients from farm to plate. The celebrated chef and host had spoken to this diarist on his last visit to Mumbai in May for the World on a Plate event. “What I was looking for was an opportunity to dig down deep into food. These are foodie conversations with a people who are really passionate and dedicate their lives to rearing the most beautiful organic chickens, or with someone who has made a change and moved to the country side and has a self-sustaining farm, or the noisy
guys who are in charge of an urban winery in Melbourne, and are stomping and making their own wine right in the heart of the city,” he had said. The podcast went live on Tuesday on podcastone.com. We can't wait to hear more from you, chef.
Saying goodbye to 'high' fun
Bring on the fun, leave out the high. The concept of high fun needs to be punctured, as the 'high' refers to substance abuse and has, for long, been a factor across gay dating websites, Recently, queer support groups from the city, Umang and Yaariyan, in association with Suasth One Step, held a workshop on substance abuse and de-addiction. The rise of drug use among the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and the Queer community is alarming, say youth leaders. With the increased use of MDMA, gay men are at greater risk of sexually transmitted infections and diseases. Most of the community was concerned with how one can identify addictions and what are the remedies. Substance abuse cuts across barriers and is not specific to the queer community. However, there are certain factors associated with the group, like isolation, rejection and staying in the closet, that may make queer persons more susceptible to substance abuse. More power to such workshops.
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