Curator: Rajiv Mehrotra

Mission: Joy – Finding Happiness in Troubled Times (90 min; 2021)
A film by Louie Psihoyos & Peggy Callahan

The film gives unprecedented access to the unlikely friendship of two international Nobel Peace Prize laureates and global leaders who transcend religion: His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu. Featuring never-before-seen footage shot over 5 days at the Dalai Lama’s residence in Dharamsala, the film invites viewers to join these luminaries as they share their hard-won wisdom about a wide range of issues from love, karma, guilt, and forgiveness, to joy, faith, meditation, and reincarnation. Offering neuroscience-backed wisdom to help each of us live with more joy under any circumstance, the film is an antidote for our times

(Collaboration: The Foundation for Universal Responsibility of His Holiness the Dalai Lama)  

Play by Badal Sircar
Directed by Tarique Hameed

Presented by Wings Cultural Society

With Prince, Virika Solanki, Tarique Hameed, Rajguru Mohan, Danish Khan, Anupam Sharma, Sakshum Kapoor, Riya Banerjee, Sumit Kapoor, Moulshree, Sachin Agrawal, Harkirat Kaur, Vajid Ali, and Puja Bansal

Spartacus was the leader of the great slave revolt that began in 71 BC and shook the mighty Roman Empire. The play revolves around five actions – capturing of the people, selling of these captives in the market, slaves toiling, gladiator-slaves fighting in the arena, and the crucifixion of the slaves for acts of rebellion. Badal Sircar, the well-known playwright adapted this play from his favourite novel of the same title by Howard Fast. Wanting to dramatize the story, it is the first play by Sircar where he has used the human body to develop the action in the play. 

Launch of the book by Alyque Padamsee, co-authored with Vandana Saxena Poria (Viking: 2022)

Introduction & Moderator: Raell Padamsee who will speak about her father and about the book

A conversation with Ms Paro Anand, well-known author of children’s literature; Shri Feisal Alkazi, educationist, theatre director and activist; and Ms Vandana Saxena Poria OBE, Co-Author & Chief Alarmist, The Human Alarm Clock & Co.

The late Alyque Padamsee was India’s iconic advertising and theatre guru. Even after his death, he continues to live on and be controversial. The co-author Vandana Saxena Poria collaborated with Alyque Padamsee for three years prior to his death to put the book together from 175 hours of conversation with him. 

Yoga for Health & Global Harmony
(27 min; English)
A film by Benoy K. Behl

Benoy K. Behl will introduce the film before the screening

The filmmaker and photographer, Benoy K. Behl travelled across 10 countries and across 4 continents to shoot this film. Yoga is a the challenging study of consciousness itself, understanding one’s body, understanding one’s emotions, understanding one’s mind and beyond that, understanding one’s true self. This film is about the true meaning of yoga and how it can transform the world

Curated by Sunit Tandon and Samaresh Chatterji

Verdi: La Traviata | (132 min; 2005; dvd; English subtitles)

With Anna Netrebko (Violetta Valery); Rolando Villazón (Alfredo Germont); Thomas Hampson (Giorgio Germont)
Concert Association of the Vienna State Opera Chorus
Mozarteum Orchestra (Stage Music)
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor: Carlo Rizzi

A stellar opera event of 2005, the Salzburg Festival’s production of Verdi’s classic in a dramatic modern staging by Willy Decker. This is the thrilling production that prompted riotous ovations at its first presentation. The opera tells the story of the tragic love between the courtesan Violetta and the romantic Alfredo Germont. Played out against the hypocrisy of upper-class fashionable society, Alfredo and Violetta's love threatens to shame his family.

Introduced by Samaresh Chatterji

PIANO EXTRAVAGANZA
(100 min; 2004; dvd; English subtitles)

With Leif Ove Andsnes, Nicolas Angelich, Martha Argerich, Emmanuel Ax, Claude Frank, Evgeny Kissin, Lang Lang, James Levine, Mikhail Pletnev, Staffan Scheja.
Birthday Festival Orchestra

Every year, the idyllic village of Verbier in the Swiss Alps plays host to the international music elite. To celebrate the Verbier Festival & Academy’s tenth birthday in 2003, 23 fabulous soloists came together to honour this special spirit of Verbier with this exciting once-in-a-lifetime extravaganza of star pianists and as many as 8 pianos. Featuring music by Mozart, Smetana, Bach, Rossini, Wagner, Arthur Benjamin, Gottschalk, Rimsky-Korsakov and others.

Introduced by Sunit Tandon

Hindustani Flute Recital

By Rohit Prasanna from Delhi, disciple of Pt. Ravi Shankar Prasanna
Accompanied by Saptak Sharma on the tabla

At 19:00
 

Hindustani Vocal Recital
By Shashwati Mandal from Gwalior Gharana, disciple of Smt Kamal Umdekar Mandal, Pt Balasaheb Poochhwale

Accompanists:
Pt Vinod Lele on Tabla
Dr Mausam on Harmonium

The Artist will present  “Khayal and Tappa”

Sattriya Dance

By Anwesa Mahanta from Guwahati, disciple of Guru Bayanacharya Ghanakanta Bora

AT 19:00
 

Mohiniattam Recital

By Lavanya Nambissan from Delhi, disciple of Guru Shri Madhukumar, Smt Kalamandalam Swapna Nair and Dr. Deepti Omchery Bhalla
 

Curated by Sunit Tandon and Samaresh Chatterji

Adolphe Adam: Giselle
(108 min; 1983; dvd; English subtitles)

With Galina Mezentseva (Giselle); Konstantin Zaklinsky (Albrecht); Gennadi Selyutsky (Hilarion); Tatyana Terekhova (Myrtha)
The Kirov Ballet
Orchestra of the Leningrad Theatre of Opera and Ballet
Conductor: Viktor Fedotov

The Kirov Ballet offers its unmatched interpretation of one of the finest of Parisian Romantic ballets, in which undying love triumphs over betrayal and death…

Introduced by Samaresh Chatterji
 

Curated by Sunit Tandon and Samaresh Chatterji

A MASTER AT WORK

Carlos Kleiber Conducts Mozart and Brahms
(72 min; 1992; dvd; English)

Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor: Carlos Kleiber

Carlos Kleiber was perhaps the most highly regarded conductor of the late 20th century but has left the musical world with a frustratingly small number of recordings. Hence this video recording of a concert given in 1991 in the famed Golden Hall of the Musikverein in Vienna is all the more to be treasured, capturing his minimal but poetic gestures, his utter command of the score and his hypnotic hold over the orchestra. Featuring Mozart’s Symphony No. 36 in C major, K. 425 “Linz” and Brahms’ lyrical Symphony No. 2 in D major.

Introduced by Sunit Tandon