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Event: Nimajjon to be staged in Cairo Int’l Theatre Festival

Speakers at the press conference at the Conference
Room of the Experimental Theatre Hall of Bangladesh
Shilpakala Academy. NN Photo

Entertainment Report

Dhaka Theatre's play 'Nimajjon' will represent Bangladesh in the 20th Cairo International Theatre Festival in Egypt. The festival will start on October 10. A total of 20 plays from around the world will be staged at the festival, which will continue till October 20. The play 'Nimajjon' will be staged twice in the festival.

A 21-member Bangladesh theatre group led by Nasir Uddin Yousuff left Dhaka yesterday to join the festival.

This was disclosed at a press conference jointly organised by Dhaka Theatre and Bang-ladesh Shilpakala Academy (BSA) at the Conference Room of the Experimental Theatre Hall of the BSA on Wednesday. Bhuiyan Shafiqul Islam, Director General of BSA, Ramendu Majumdar, President of ITI, Nasir Uddin Yousuff, Director of Dhaka Theatre, Shimul Yousuff, theatre personality, among others, were present at the conference. The play 'Nimajjon' revolves around a stranger, who is a globe-totter. At the end of his journey, he arrives in a city built at the confluence of three rivers. He comes here to see his ailing friend, a professor of political science, whose political ideology has already invited a threat to his life. Basically the play does not follow any conventional structure - neither does it develop any particular storyline. Through narratives, the play presents a chronological look at genocides around the globe.

According to the play, the history of civilisation and genocides are interlaced - every civilisation has had a history of genocide. And the repetition of these brutal incidents has brought down humans from the superior position. It is an irony. The play also stresses on the unless the structure of a state is not designed for the welfare of humanity, genocides will never end.

TV Serial: Dewana Madina on Diganta TV

Entertainment Report

New drama serial 'Dewana Madina' has been started on new satellite television channel Diganta TV recently.

Shahiduzzaman Mohan has directed the 13-episode serial. The story of the drama serial is based on 'Mymensingh Geetika.' Mollik Nizu has scripted the drama. Shooting was held at various locations in Mymensingh.

Shahriar Nazim Joy, Golam Farida Chhanda, Amirul Haque Chowdhury, Momena Chowdhury, Rahamat Ali, Maznun Mizan, Dihan, among others, performed in the serial.

Story of Dewana Madina:

Chhanda loved Joy and married him. But then Joy divorced her after taking advice from his brother. Joy then married another woman. After waiting for Joy at last Chhanda died. The story went on.

TV Watch: Rtv airs Apon ghore porobash tonight

Entertainment Desk

Drama serial 'Apon ghore porobash' to be aired on Rtv at 9:40pm today. Aftab Bin Tamiz has scripted the drama, while Kaisar Ahmed has directed it.

Shahiduzzaman Selim, Tania Ahmed, Shoeb, Joy, Deepa Khondaker, ATM Shamsuzzaman, Chitralekha Guha, Faruk Ahmed and others performed in the drama serial.

Story of Apon ghore porobash:

Bikar Khan is the head of a high-class family. He has his wife Ayna Begum and two daughters - Antora and Sanchari, two servants and brother-in-law. Whole family is a parliament. Monir and Imran, who completed their study recently, were searching jobs and house in the city. They moved elsewhere in the city. Then they decided to get marriage with a daughter of a rich man. In the meantime, Bikar Khan declared that a man is coming from USA. But he did not disclose his name to them. At the last stage of the drama daughter of his previous wife Nila came to his house. The 26-episode drama serial will end then.

Concert News: Sunidhi, Kunal to perform in Dhaka on Oct 17

Entertainment Report

Indian singers Sunidhi Chauhan and Kunal Ganjawala will perform in an open-air concert in Dhaka on October 17.

The Events Inc will organise the concert on the playground of the Residential Model College in the city. This was disclosed at a press conference at the National Press Club on Wednesday.

Mahmud Razzak of the Events Inc, among others, were present at the conference.

Mahmud said, "The programme will begin at 5:00pm. Stringent security measures would be taken to make the programme a success."

"We have already talked to the law enforcing agencies and they have assured us to provide security,' he said. 'We will sell tickets of two kinds - one for general audiences and the other for VIPs. Tickets for the two categories have been fixed at Tk 500 and Tk 3,500 respectively," he said.

Both the singers will arrive in Dhaka on October 16 and the tickets will be available at Agora, Nandan, Etc and Sagar Publishers, said the organisers.

TV Show: Ghor Kutum on Channel i tonight

Entertainment Report

Mega serial 'Ghor Kutum' to be aired on Channel i today at 7:50pm. Salauddin Lavlu has directed the serial, while Brindaban Das has scripted it.

ATM Shamsuzzaman, Fazlur Rahman Babu, Salauddin Lavlu, Chanchal Chowdhury, Mosharraf Karim, AkhM Hasan, Alyraj, Shamim, Sanjib, Shoshi, Homaira Himu, Tania Hossain, Golam Farida Chhanda, Maya Ghosh, Shirin Alam, among others, performed in the serial.

Hollywood: Mariah Carey is back to black

Some have been giving the pop star a hard time for this somewhat revealing little black dress that she wore to host a special event at the Bank Nightclub. But I think Mariah Carey looks lovely - and slightly more covered up than she does sometimes! Sure, she's got a strapless, plunging dress on, but it's not near as low-cut as a lot of what we've been seeing lately.

We think it hugs in all the right places without being too provocative. Plus, it's practically knee-length and she accessorised with black tights.

- Agency

Bollywood: Aishwarya admires Rajinikanth

Aishwarya

Gorgeous Aishwarya Bachchan is shooting with south superstar Rajinikanth for Shankar's Robot. The film is a big budget film and she is shooting in various exotic locales of the world. Ash is shooting with Rajini for the first time and she could not stop raving the actor. 'It was great working with Rajinikanth, who is a brilliant actor. The only tough thing about the movie was studying Tamil again in order to pronounce the words properly,' she said.

Shankar takes the credit of bringing together Rajini and Ash for the first time ever. A couple of song sequences were shot recently in Peru. Aishwarya said," Shankar had approached me previously to work with him, but could not be materialized. Finally, everything landed in place and here we are together after ten years."

She is looking forward to work with hubby again. Mani Ratnam has roped the duo for his upcoming venture titled Ravana and the shooting of the flick will commence shortly.

- Agency