HELEN

A new play by Wings Theatre, designed, written and directed by Kismat Bano.

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I AM HELEN! 

(Written by Tinat Atifa Masood while watching the play HELEN at Rabindra Bhawan on 21st of September, 2014)


I am blind,
Blind to so many things
I can't see
I don't want to see!

But I want to see,
Please help me see
Why do I feel so blind?
I want to see the world,
I want love,
I want freedom from pain
I want to see the chains tying me
I want to open the knots around my eyes
I want to see
My eyes are brimming with the blood of my ancestors
But I couldn't see them
When they impaled me to the cross,
I bled but I couldn't see
I was blind then and I am blind now.

My love kissed me
But I couldn't see his brown eyes
I touched his tears but couldn't see the warmth of his heart and the sadness within.

I want to see
When he took me on a journey. I felt
Only his hands embracing me
He told me he would show me the way
I was scared at first.
I held his hands
But I couldn't see the tears in his eyes! I wondered why?

He took me to the hills to dance with the rain on my face
I could see the prayers in his temple
And the coloured ribbons he wove into my braid.
I could touch the waves and see the breeze of his Autumn love
The frenzy of his love
Made me see the horizon.
Like a sonnet in spring, he taught me words
Of love
To see the perfection of eternity.

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Helen, left me speechless! With acting par excellence, I can only say Guwahati needs more such out of the box plays, which leaves us wanting for more! 

THE MURDER GAME

A play in two acts staged at Rabindra Bhawan, Guwahati on the 27th, 28th and 29th of 

June, 2014. 

Directed by Rohan K. Das.

Actors: Ranjeev Lal Barua, Tinat Atifa Masood, Manas Das, Kul Rahman and Rohan K.Das.


ACT 1

Vikram Karnad is a successful playwright who has not been able to give a hit play in the last 15 years..he has been living off his wife Myra's money ..Myra is a rich heiress of the Ali estate in Coorg, Karnataka..where they both live...
Vikram recieves a carbon copy of a play script from a young ambitious playwright called Chetan Kapoor..Chetan idolises Vikram and wants Vikram to be the first person to read it n give him feedback about it...its a terrific script called The Murder Game. .Myra is a heart patient and gets nervous that Vikram might kill Chetan. .
Chetan comes with the original script to Vikram. ...Myra suggests they shud both collaborate and make The Murder Game an even better script..but Chetan refuses...then Vikram kills Chetan. ..Myra gets very tense...The body is buried in the vegetable garden behind the house ..However, Chetan comes back from the dead n 'kills' Vikram with a wooden log..then he goes to attack Myra...but in the process, Myra dies of a heart attack. ..then Vikram rises..checks if Myra is dead and tells Chetan that their plan worked.....it was a plan by Vikram and Chetan to give Myra a heart attack...so that Vikram could have the Ali estate all for himself
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END OF ACT 1



ACT 2

The Murder Game script Chetan had sent was a bogus story to kill Myra. Chetan is now busy writing a script based on the life of employees in a social welfare office where he was working..Vikram is surprised. ..Then Tiwari comes..Tiwari is the old faithful lawyer of the Ali family...he has come to check on how Vikram was doing and get some investment papers signed..
When Chetan goes to the grocery store, Tiwari puts a suspicion in Vikrams's head that Chetan could be hiding something from Vikram as he saw Chetan hiding his script inside the drawer. .Tiwari leaves..Vikram tries to open the drawer to read the script but its locked...Chetan comes back..Vikram fools Chetan and manages to read Chetan's script...he is shocked because Chetan is actually writing The Murder Game based on the events that happened to cause Myra's death...Vikram confronts Chetan and wants to burn the script as they could get caught...but Chetan bullies Vikram and forces him to collaborate with him...Now Vikram plans to kill Chetan...but Chetan gets wind of his plan...Finally both Vikram and Chetan kill each other.
But this was all a plan by Tiwari to get the Ali estate property by getting the Karnads killed...he reveals his plan in the end to his accomplice and aide, Leela Subramaniam, a under-cover Tamil psychic but one time flop actress. 

THE END
 (As compiled by Ranjeev Lal Barua)

Photo Credits: Rodin Rahman

After settling their affairs, Emma (Monica Potter) and John Collingwood (Tony Goldwyn), and their daughter, Mari (Sara Paxton), head out on vacation to their lake house. Shortly thereafter, Mari borrows the family car and drives into town to spend some time with her friend Paige (Martha MacIsaac). While Paige works the cash register at a local store, she and Mari meet Justin (Spencer Treat Clark), a teenager passing through town who invites them both back to his hotel room to smoke some marijuana. While the three are hanging out in the hotel room, Justin's family members return: Krug (Garret Dillahunt), Justin’s father; Francis (Aaron Paul), Justin’s uncle; and Sadie (Riki Lindhome), Krug’s girlfriend.

Krug shows Justin a local newspaper that has Krug and Sadie’s pictures on the front page, and which explains how Sadie and Francis broke Krug out of police custody and killed the two officers that were transporting him. Believing it too risky to let Paige and Mari go, the gang kidnaps them and uses their car to leave town. While Krug searches for the highway, Mari convinces him to take a road that leads to her parent’s lake house; Mari then attempts to jump out of the vehicle, but the ensuing fight among the passengers causes Krug to crash into a tree. Frustrated by Mari’s attempt at escape, Sadie and Francis proceed to beat Mari as she crawls from the wreckage. Krug attempts to teach Justin to "be a man" by forcing him to fondle Mari's breasts. Paige begins insulting him to get him to stop; in response, Krug and Francis stab Paige repeatedly and Mari watches her friend bleed to death. Krug then rapes Mari. When he is done, Mari musters enough strength to escape the group and make it to the lake so that she can swim to safety. Before she can swim far enough, Krug shoots her in the back, leaving her body floating in the lake.

A storm forces Krug and his gang to seek refuge with John and Emma, whose house is nearby. Justin soon realizes that they are Mari’s parents, and intentionally leaves Mari's necklace on the counter to alert them about their daughter. When John and Emma find Mari barely alive on their porch, and the necklace on the counter, they realize that the people who did this to Mari are in their house. As they try to find the key to their boat so that they can take Mari to the hospital, they decide to get revenge on those responsible. When Francis happens upon Mari he is attacked and killed by John and Emma. When the couple go after Krug and Sadie, they find Justin in possession of Krug’s gun; Justin gives the gun to John so that he can kill Krug. Sadie awakens and interrupts John, allowing Krug to escape from the couple: he then realizes that they are Mari’s parents. After Emma shoots Sadie in the head, John chases Krug. With a combined effort from Emma, John, and Justin, Krug is knocked unconscious. John paralyzes Krug from the neck down, and leaves him to die with his head in an active microwave oven; then he, Emma, Mari, and Justin take the boat to the local hospital.

Directed by	Dennis Iliadis
Produced by	Wes Craven Sean S. Cunningham Marianne Maddalena
Screenplay by	Adam Alleca Carl Ellsworth
Based on	The Last House on the Left by Wes Craven
Starring	Tony Goldwyn Monica Potter Garret Dillahunt Spencer Treat Clark Martha MacIsaac Sara Paxton
Music by	John Murphy
Cinematography	Sharone Meir
Editing by	Peter McNulty
Studio	Midnight Entertainment Scion Films
Distributed by	Rogue Pictures
Release dates	March 13, 2009
Running time	110 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Box office	$45,286,228

The Last House on the Left is a 2009 American film directed by Dennis Iliadis and written by Carl Ellsworth and Adam Alleca. It is a remake of the 1972 film of the same name, and stars Monica Potter, Tony Goldwyn, Garret Dillahunt, andSara Paxton. The film follows the parents (Goldwyn and Potter) of Mari Collingwood (Paxton), who attempt to get revenge on a group of strangers, led by a man named Krug (Dillahunt), that have taken shelter at their home during a thunderstorm. The Collingwoods discover that Krug and his group have raped and shot their daughter and left her for dead.

Everybody says I am fine





With a story line way above the expected, my euphoric thoughts carried me for the whole 100 minutes to an entirely different level altogether. But I must say, seeing the intensity of the film left me wishing to see more films directed by Rahul Bose. The 2nd Brahmaputra Valley Film Festival 2014 has given quite a treat to Guwahatians this weekend starting 19th April through 21st April. 

Everybody Says I'm Fine! is an Indian film, released on 12 September 2001 at the Toronto Film Festival. It marks the directorial debut of Indian actor Rahul Bose. For his work on Everybody Says I'm Fine! Bose won the runner-up John Schlesinger Award for best directorial debut at the 2003 Palm Springs International Film Festival.

Plot

The film revolves around a small group of elite Mumbaikars whose lives converge at a hairdresser's salon. The protagonist Xen owns the salon and has a unique gift of connecting with the minds of his clients and reading their thoughts while at work. Most of his customers maintain a facade of normality in order to gain semblance and hide their tumultuous lives to some extent.

As backdrop to Xen's ability, it is revealed that as a young boy, he witnessed the death of his parents in a freak accident at a recording studio, where nobody could hear his cries for help through the sound-proof booth as he saw the flames rising. Ever since, Xen's life plunged into some sort of forced silence. Xen uses his gift to help most of his clients, notably Tanya, whose private life is being indecently probed into by another one of his customers, Misha. Xen manages to get the dirt on Misha, who is a secret cocaine addict, and more unsavory details surface where it comes to knowledge that Misha has even gotten some children at the orphanage she works at addicted to it. Xen slips the information to Tanya without her knowledge, who then confronts Misha with it when Misha becomes a little too inquisitive in Tanya's personal affairs.

Xen is however, clueless in his own silence, and to add to it, he is unable to probe into the mind of one of his customers, Nikki/Nikita who arrives in his saloon one day and asks him to cut off all her long hair. He begins to develop feelings for her, sensing some form of distress in her being, unable to reach her but somehow wanting to help.

Later, as Xen serves one of his regulars, a respectable businessman, Mr. Mittal, it transpires that the married Mr. Mittal is busy planning a liaison with another woman. More facts slowly unfold to reveal Mr Mittal is, in fact, Nikki's father, and Nikki has been subjected to an incestuous relationship. Enraged, on gradually learning the truth straight from the thoughts of his client, Xen strikes a heavy blow to Mr. Mittal's head, killing him, and later disposing of the body.

The death of her father triggers in Nikki a sudden response, and she crumbles to the ground in Xen's arms. He is now engulfed in her disconcerting train of thoughts, disjointed, and echoing her torment of many years. The final scene of the film shows Xen waking the next morning to find the silence in his life is now beyond him, and he can hear, as clearly and wholly as the next human being. Nikki embraces him; the mutual catharsis has made them both more wholesome beings.

Cast

Actor/actress	Role
Rehaan Engineer	Xen
Koel Purie	Nikki/Nikita
Rahul Bose	Rage
Pooja Bhatt	Tanya
Anahita Oberoi	Misha (as Anahita Uberoi)
Boman Irani	Mr. Mittal

Crew

• Director: Rahul Bose
• Writing Credits: Rahul Bose

Konikar Ramdhenu




We all scramble to watch the best movie and when we know its won the National Award, it only gets the better of us if we don't get to see it on time. So even after knowing that Konikar Ramdhenu received the National Award in 2002, I was destined a see only this year and that too while anchoring for the 2nd Brahmaputra Valley Film Festival on the evening of 19th April, 2014. I decided to sit through this whole film and taste its flavour inspite of a hectic schedule on stage. And it was the best decision I took in some time! An intense movie, it had little to do with the physical 'dhishum dhishum', but so much more about tormented souls, who needed to be heard!
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Konikar Ramdhenu (Assamese: কণিকাৰ ৰামধেনু) is an Assamese language film directed by Jahnu Barua. It was released in 2003.The film was shown in Indian Panorama section of IFFI during October 2002 in Delhi and Mumbai International Festival in 2003.^[1] It is the last installment of his trilogy, the other two being Xagoroloi Bohu Door (1995) and Pokhi (1998). Konikar Ramdhenu depicts the horrors that happen in a juvenile home.

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The story revolves around an imaginative and intelligent 11-year-old boy Kukoi who runs away from his village home and starts working in a motor garage in a city. One day the owner attempts to molest Kukoi. In self-defence, Kokoi hits the owner with an iron rod killing him on the spot. Kukoi is produced before court and then sent to the state juvenile home where he is traumatized. Biswa Boro, the warden of the home, is an understanding man. He coaxes the boy into a confession of the true circumstances of the painful event. Kukoi is brought before the magistrate who orders his release and custody to his parents or any authorised guardian. Biswa goes to Kukoi’s village where he discovers that the boy’s mother died years ago and his stepfather has disowned him. Biswa, who is now retired and does not have children, decides to adopt Kukoi.

Director Jahnu Barua visited 12 juvenile homes before making the film. He observed that out of 100 cases, more than 80 end up in “negative situations”, much below expectations.

Directed by	Jahnu Barua
Produced by	Sailadhar Baruah
Written by	Jahnu Barua
Starring	Bishnu Kharghoria Moloya Goswami Reba Phukan Dinesh Das Ronik Abinash Sharma Ashwini Bhuyan Indrani Gogoi
Music by	Reeta Das Baruah Y. S. Moolky
Cinematography	P. Rajan
Editing by	Heu-En Baruah
Distributed by	Dolphin Films Pvt. Ltd
Release dates	2003
Running time	112 minutes
Country	India
Language	Assamese

INSIDIOUS Chapter 2

Insidious: Chapter 2 is a 2013 American supernatural horror film directed by James Wan. It is a sequel to 2011'sInsidious. The film stars Patrick Wilson and Rose Byrne reprising their roles as Josh and Renai Lambert, a husband and wife who seek to uncover the secret that has left them dangerously connected to the spirit world. The film was released on September 13, 2013. It was a major box-office success, grossing over $160 million worldwide against a budget of $5 million, even though it received mixed reviews from critics.

I really think that director James Wan was sleep walking when he made the sequel of Insidious Chapter 1. Chapter 2 was just a non-scare, the first being far better in giving goose-bumps. I could actually see so much of copy-paste from the first that I just wondered how James Wan could have been so unfair in story-telling and that too when I was all prepared to be 'scared to death' and that too at the dead of night! So there you have it, an absolute non-scarer; Insidious 2! It beats me how it grossed $160 million! Every scene seemed repetitive and the story predictive. 
As a movie-buff, I want more excitement and certainly no predictability. Why should I be able to say the story when there is actually someone else to imagine it for me? I want to sit back and let someone else do that job for me! But James Wan let me down big time! I wish I don't have to predict Chapter 3! I am only waiting! 
I have heard that Insidious 3 will have a totally different story, with no connections whatever with the first two sequels. It is coming in 2015, with the script already ready with discussions on in full swing! Good for them but I wish they would do away with the 'ghost-busters'. They somehow don't fit into the plot!

INSIDIOUS

adjective \in-ˈsi-dē-əs\.

causing harm in a way that is gradual or not easily noticed.

Full Definition of INSIDIOUS. # awaiting a chance to entrap  # treacherous.

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only 

thing 

I 

remember

while 

watching 

this 

film

was 

that 

I was really scared.

Tirus 

had

his

head under the pillow.

Renai and Josh Lambert have recently moved into a new home with their three children. One morning, Renai looks through a family photo album with her young son, Dalton, who asks why there are no pictures of Josh as a child. Renai reasons that Josh dislikes having his picture taken. Later, Dalton goes to investigate noises in the attic and falls down a broken ladder. The next day, he falls into a mysterious coma, with doctors being unable to give any explanation as to why.

Three months later, Dalton, still trapped in the coma, is moved back home. Disturbing supernatural events begin to occur, as Dalton's younger brother Foster claims that he doesn't like it when Dalton "walks around at night". After being attacked by a spectral figure one night, Renai convinces a skeptical Josh that the family should move, as she believes their house is haunted.

In the new house, the supernatural events resume, with Renai encountering the ghost of a little boy that runs around the home laughing. Josh's mother, Lorraine, visits one day and claims that she had a dream about a shadowy figure in Dalton's room and when asked what it wanted it responded "Dalton". Suddenly, Lorraine sees a monstrous, red-faced figure behind Josh and loud banging noises are heard as Dalton's bedroom is then ransacked by supernatural forces. Lorraine contacts a friend, Elise Reiner, who specializes in the investigation of paranormal activity. Elise enters Dalton's room and sees something on the ceiling, to which her assistant Specs draws a dark, demonic figure with a red face and hollow eyes; the same figure from Lorraine's dream.

Elise sits with the family and explains that Dalton isn't in a coma, but that he has the ability of astral projection. His spiritual body has become trapped in "The Further" – a place where tormented souls of the dead are condemned into eternal darkness. While Dalton's spirit is in this other world, his physical body is left as an empty vessel. The tormented souls in The Further and the demonic figure are all attempting to take over Dalton's lifeless body.

They run a session to try to communicate with Dalton, which results with the family and Elise's team being attacked by spirits and the demon. Elise and Lorraine reveal that Josh also holds the ability to astral project. As a child, he was terrorized by the parasitic spirit of an old woman who wanted to possess his body. This old woman would appear in every photo taken of Josh as a child, leading to his disdain for having his picture taken. Elise had helped Josh forget about his ability to astral project, but now suggests that Josh use his ability to find and return Dalton's soul. She places Josh in a trance and he is able to project his spirit body into the shadowy world of The Further. After encountering various spirits, Josh enters the demon's lair and discovers Dalton chained to the floor.

He sets Dalton free but the two are discovered and attacked by the demon. In the real world, the spirits of The Further begin to cross over, seeking to take hold of Dalton and Josh's bodies. Josh leaves his son to confront the spirit of the old woman, while Dalton flees from the demon. Moments later, Josh and Dalton both awaken in the real world and all of the spirits vanish. The family is now happily reunited; however, Elise senses something sinister and takes a picture of Josh. He promptly goes into a barbaric rage and strangles Elise to death. Renai comes in to find Elise dead and Josh gone. She checks Elise's camera and sees a picture of the old woman in Josh's place, implying that she has possessed Josh's body.

In a post-credits scene, the old woman (that possessed Josh) is seen blowing out a candle, plunging the screen into total darkness, just as the film ends.

Directed by	James Wan
Produced by	Jason Blum Steven Schneider Oren Peli
Written by	Leigh Whannell
Starring	Patrick Wilson Rose Byrne Barbara Hershey
Music by	Joseph Bishara
Cinematography	John R. Leonetti David M. Brewer
Editing by	James Wan Kirk Morri
Studio	Alliance Films IM Global Stage 6 Films
Distributed by	FilmDistrict
Release dates	September 14, 2010(TIFF) April 1, 2011(United States)[1]
Running time	103 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$1.5 million[2]
Box office	$97,009,150[3]

Cast

• Patrick Wilson as Josh Lambert
• Rose Byrne as Renai Lambert
• Lin Shaye as Elise Rainier
• Ty Simpkins as Dalton Lambert
• Barbara Hershey as Lorraine Lambert
• Leigh Whannell as Specs
• Angus Sampson as Tucker