Odeon kicks off with "Ke Tumi" at ITC Sonar

Last evening the 9th edition of Odeon kicked off at Pala in the ITC Sonar. The play "Ke Tumi" a script based musical in Bengali and English, inspired by Rabindranath Tagore's relationship with his muse Kadambari Devi, featured the legendary actor Soumitro Chatterjee and the beautiful actress Chandrayee Ghosh.

This was followed by cocktails and dinner. Though the intellectual and some psuedo intellectuals were enthralled, I guess this wasn't something for my entertainment palette. So after sitting through it a bit, I decided to get out and hit the watering hole. The evening saw quite a few pegs go down and the food was just super delicious.

Now am looking forward to catching atleast a couple of plays of this year's theatre festival.

The Schedule for ODEON 2009

Date: 28/11/2009
Genre: Romantic
Language: Hindi
Play: Aapki Soniya
Director: Salim Arif
Cast: Farooque Shaikh and Sonali Bendre
Production House: Essay Communications
Venue: G D Birla Sabhaghar
Time: 6:30 PM
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Date: 29/11/2009
Genre: Comedy
Language: English
Play: Some Girl(s)
Director: Nadir Khan
Cast: Mukul Chadda, Shivani Tanksale, Juhi Pande, Tarana Raja Kapoor, Radhika Mittal
Production House: Q Theatre Productions
Venue: G D Birla Sabhaghar
Time: 4:00 PM
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Date: 29/11/2009
Genre: Comedy
Language: English
Play: Some Girl(s)
Director: Nadir Khan
Cast: Mukul Chadda, Shivani Tanksale, Juhi Pande, Tarana Raja Kapoor, Radhika Mittal
Production House: Q Theatre Productions
Venue: G D Birla Sabhaghar
Time: 7:00 PM
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Date: 2/12/2009
Genre: Social
Language: Multi Lingual
Play: Bhor
Director: Usha Ganguli
Cast: Sagnik Mukherjee, Dilip Bharti and others
Production House: Rangakarmee
Venue: G D Birla Sabhaghar
Time: 7:00 PM
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Date: 3/12/2009
Genre: Comedy
Language: Bengali
Play: Bhootum Bhagaban
Director: Raja Bhattacharya
Cast: Sayon Banik, Mandira Banerjee, Dipak Mitra, Aryabrata Bhattacharya
Production House: Blank Verse
Venue: Madhusudan Manch
Time: 7:00 PM
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Date: 5/12/2009
Genre: Romantic
Language: Bengali
Play: Shastha Ritu
Director: Biplab Bandyopadhyay
Cast: Atish Chanda, Anindya Banerjee
Production House: Niva Arts
Venue: Star Theatre
Time: 6:30 PM
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Date: 6/12/2009
Genre: Social
Language: Bengali
Play: Bhoy
Director: Kaushik Sen
Cast: Kaushik Sen, Deboleena Dutta and others
Production House: Swapna Sandhani
Venue: Star Theatre
Time: 6:30 PM

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