Event Index — Love hurts

The play Made For Each Other is based on Harold Spinter's Betrayal. The protagonists are the husband, the wife and his best friend. The plo...

The play Made For Each Other is based on Harold Spinter’s Betrayal. The protagonists are the husband, the wife and his best friend. The plot revolves around the complications that set in when the wife falls in love with the friend.

While the theme of a love triangle has been around since the days of the Big Bang, director Naushil Mehta insists that the treatment of Made for… is different, and so is the direction. "It is a love story in reverse," he says. The play opens with the scene where the fatal affair is over and from there goes backwards to the beginning. The two-hour long two-act play uses crisp dialogue and "Indian English". Made for… has been performed twice before and the cast includes Seema Kapoor, Mahesh Thakur and Lalit Parimoo.At the Sophiya Auditorium, Breach Candy at 7:30 pm on December 25, 1997 and at Tejpal Hall, GowaliaTank at 8:00 pm on December 28, 1997.

Poet’s art

Narendra Rai’s paintings show that he is more than just a painter. Dewy rainbow colours are all over his canvases which have a dream-like quality to them. And Rai also translates these images into words through his poems. This is his third exhibition in the city and he has published four books of poetry till now. His current show, titled `Prakriti’ reveals his fascination with rocks. Says Padmashree Jagdish Mittal, "Narendra has full understanding of the materials he uses, a complete command over his pictorial elements and has a very different way of looking at the world, the latter quality probably because he is a very versatile poet too." His paintings are priced between Rs 8,000 to Rs 20,000.

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At the Taj Art Gallery, Taj Mahal Hotel. Till December 29, 1997. Time: 11.00 am to 7.00 pm.

Street life

Project training is a city-based body that works for street children. It trains and funds them for small enterprises. To generate the funds, it held a photography contest called, `The Wonderful World of Street Children’. More than 300 photographers from all over the country participated in it. Of the 1,000-odd photographs, an exhibition of about 150 to 200 is being held.At the Y B Chavan Art Gallery, from December 30, 1997 to January 05, 1998, between 10.30 am and 7.00 pm.

Net gains

Indian contemporary art might not exist at all as far as the world market is concerned. The high profile Sotheby’s and Christie’s auctions were high profile only in the small worlds of NRI’s and expatriates. But any effort on an international scale is welcome, said Anjolie Ela Menon at the launch of a virtual art gallery, last week. Called SPEAR (Skypak’s Project for Enhancement of Art Realisation) it is the brainchild of Dilip Kulkarni, chairman, Skypak Services Ltd. The site showcases important contemporary Indian artists at no cost to them.

Right now you can view the works and read up on M F Husain, Satish Gujral, Laxman Shreshta, Deepak Shinde, S H Raza, Sanjay Bhattacharya, Prabhakar Barwe, N S Bendre and Anjolie Ela Menon. Just a gallery right now, Skypak intends to make it a museum eventually with most Indian artists up on the net and a section on new artists as well. The site has been designed by Rohit Bafna of Cyberads Studios and has won the Asia Pacific Award, out of Singapore among others. A website that is only few months old, it already receives 770 hits a day.

You can check it out on skyserve.com/spear/.