The fifth edition of World Theatre Day in Chennai 

featuring KICHADI THEATRE performances 

at

Elliot's Beach, Besant Nagar

Tuesday, March 31, @ 7.30 pm

Entry FREE

Meet for the Visually Impaired

Rotaract Club of Dhristi and KVTC

[Empowerment through Employment for the Visually Impaired]

Invite you for their

Annual Get-together on

Sunday, 29 March 2015 at 3 pm

Contact

Mr.Raghu, (alumnus of MCC)

Coordinator, Karna Vidya Technology Centre

RR Towers III, Thiru-Vi-Ka Industrial Estate, Guindy, Chennai – 32

Ph: 98400 18012

Dr.Nirmal Rocks in Delhi..!

Dr. Nirmal Selvamony, [formerly with MCC] currently Professor with Central University of Tiruvarur, gave a talk on "Performability of CAGKAM Compositions" at the famous Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, on 19 March 2015 at 5.30 pm.

The essence of his talk is as follows: 

Although regarded as 'literature' per se, cagkam compositions, according to Dr. Selvamony, are performable musical compositions. He dwelt on their compositions, their performing practice and some basic conventions governing them. Dividing the composition into two basic domains, the akam (Inner) and puRam (Outer), he classified the former based on a master 'home narrative', and the latter, based on the various stages of combat, praise of patrons and the transience of life. 

The presentation brought out the dramatic nature of the Inner texts, by dwelling on two things—emoting, and addressorial conventions. 

The next segment of his presentation discussed the types of performers, dance, drama and music, and the musical modes. 

For more details, and for the rules & regulations, click HERE

Congrats Manoj...!

The MCC family joins me in congratulating Mr. R. Manoj, of II BA Tamil, for having achieved a stupendous success in the World Silambam Championship 2015.

The third World Silambam Championship was held at Johor Bahru, Malaysia between 5 and 9 February 2015. The Indian contingent won more than 200 medals at the championship. 

Mr.R.Manoj, (II yr BA Tamil) of MCC, won a total of 7 medals [4 Gold, 2 Silver, 1 Bronze]. He is the disciple of Mr.Power Pandian, a renowned Silambam exponent and stunt master who has trained many celebrity actors in the film industry.

We take pride in congratulating Mr. R. Manoj, for having accomplished this feat, and we also wish him many more laurels in the years to come.

Viva la MCC...!!!

Francophonie Day @ AF, Chennai

You are invited for a special screening of the famous comedy-drama Mobile Home

on the eve of Francophonie Day, @ AF, Chennai

on 20 March 2015 at 7 pm

Venue: Edouard Michelin Auditorium, Alliance Francaise of Madras

Mobile Home

 1 hr 35 min.

Leaving his job and girlfriend behind in the city, Simon returns to his native village where he reconnects with Julien, his old friend. The two unemployed thirty-year olds decide to revive an adolescent dream: set out on the road and take up seasonal jobs. They buy a caravan and are ready to set out but end up not leaving after all.  Yet somehow, a journey takes place even as they stay in one place, a journey that leads them to different destinations.!!!

World Storytelling Day in Chennai

World Storytelling Institute, Chennai

Invites you for 

A Storytelling Session

on 

World Storytelling Day

Friday, 20 March 2015 6pm to 7.30 pm

Venue: University of Madras (Campus at Wallajah Road and Marina)

Hall – F-50

Theme for this year: "Wishes"

Over 15 stories by Chennai Storytellers

- For people of all ages - 

Admission is free!

About World Storytelling Institute: Dr. Eric Miller, Director & co-founder of the World Storytelling 

Spring Fever 2015 - Event Line-up..!

MIDS INSTITUTE SEMINAR SERIES, MARCH 2015

Invites you for a lecture on The Political Ecology of Palk Bay Fisheries: Geographies of Capital, Fisher Conflict, Ethnicity, and the Nation State

By Ajit Menon, Associate Professor, MIDS

On 09 March 2015, 3:30 pm @ Adiseshiah Auditorium, MIDS.

'What Will People Say?' - A (P)review..:

When the lights were switched off at 7:15 pm this evening at the Museum Theatre, the announcer (who also happens to be the director Vaishwath Shankar), asked the audience to keep their mobiles in silent mode, and to laugh their hearts out!!!

Indeed, he really had meant what he said!!! The play was a laugh riot, by all means. The guy who got the most laughs was obviously Kamal Bose, who is mistaken for a producer by the kids in the apartment. Janaki Sabesh, a well-known name in Tamil and Telugu movies, plays Janu Aunty, and her English with the Tamil lingo intact, left the audience in splits. For once, almost all the characters played their own namesakes in the comedy too, making it much easier to gel at ease with the cast. While Vaidhya Sundar plays Vaidhya, Prasanna Venkatesh plays Prasanna, Shevaun Da Costa as Shevaun herself, (who performed her role with gusto), Amrithavarshini as Amritha also has a key role in the comedy and did it with elan! The guys literally gave us all huge belly cramps, by making us laugh our hearts out!!!

Choose the 'Right Fit' University...

The United States – India Educational Foundation is organising an informative session on “Choosing the ‘Right Fit’ Universities” On Saturday, 14 March 2015. 

This session will help aspiring students to understand the process of selecting universities that best fit them. 

Register HERE on or before 11 March 2015. 

Rendezvous with Nalan..!

There are movies that make us forget reality. Movies that live in our minds forever. Movies that we can describe shot by shot. Movies we can term as eye-openers. There are film makers who have stolen our hearts. Directors who have changed our ways of thinking and expressions. There are silver screen moments that define our day for us and shake our faith in reality. There are scenes that words fail to help us express.

Cinema Rendezvous is a date! A date to share such personal experiences, to debate our likes & dislikes and to stoke our romance with cinema.

Cinema Rendezvous also has workshops on Film Appreciation.  Prominent film personalities like Suhasini Maniratnam, Rohini, Sripriya, K.S.Ravikumar, Vettrimaran, Ram, Atlee, Samuthirakani, Bijoy Nambiar, Hariharan, Naga, Sudhish Kamath, Baradwaj Rangan, Anuradha Sriram and others are some of the special invitees for the Dates..!

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Eshareh - Fusion Music

On 06 March 2015 @ The Ballroom – THE PARK, CHENNAI, 7 pm

Eshareh, (meaning allusion in Farsi – Persian Language), combines Indian sounds, chants of the Arab world and the Persian percussions, re-interpreting the musical and linguistic heritage of oral traditional songs from the Upper Brittany Countryside. Using the cultural heritage of an oral tradition, the group re-establishes a possible link between the Eastern and Western cultures.

Essay Writing Contest - 2015

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Janani in and as 'Amrapali'

Theatre Nisha presents Janani Narasimhan in and as Amrapali. Directed, designed and scripted by V. Balakrishnan, the show narrates the story of Amrapali, one of the most famous women of her times. She was a state’s courtesan who entertained men at her house with dance, music and poetry. The story is based at a time when Magadha, Vaishali, Kaushambi, Gandhara and Kosala were fighting for supremacy while Gautama Buddha and Mahavira were advocating a fresh path of life. 

Tickets are priced at Rs.150/- 

Contact info: 9677172897

Laugh-out-Loud...:-) :-) :-)

“What will people say?” is a situational comedy set in Mumbai, revolving around the lives of six young aspiring actors living together in a studio apartment. In all innocence, they are doing this for economic security. They believe their apartment is immediately above that of an influential producer Kamal Bose, who, they believe, is about to cast a road company. They rehearse the play but how can they get him upstairs to see it? It happens that the so-called producer is a chef, and, right in the middle of  a culinary concoction, he runs out of oil. He comes upstairs to borrow some. At last the kids have him and they aren’t going to let him go until he sees some evidence of their ability so they stage a M**der. Having a knack for improvisation, they will stop at no end to convince him. It is so realistic that police swarm into the scene with hilarious results. A clean, bristling and outright laugh-out-loud comedy that has the kids asking themselves that very Indian question, “What will people say?!”

About ‘The Madras Players’

The oldest theatre group in India, The Madras Players celebrates its 60^th anniversary this year. Having staged more than 250 productions, they have performed the works of playwrights from India & abroad. The focus of the group is now more on Indian writing & Indian playwrights.

For more info, contact: Gopi Nair: 93819 11977