PD Ponders

Gusteau: Food always comes to those who love to cook I have always loved to cook and lived to eat.  Had to write five of my recipes for a food feature in Udayavani (a local Kannada daily).  Then I just scratched my head woke the Gusteau in my head and wrote these down.  Hope this is a good read and do let me know if you try them too. 1. Simple Rasam I have been making this rasam for quite some time.  Although I learnt this recipe through my grandmother, I have never been able to prepare it the way my grandmother used to.  This dish takes 20 Minutes to prepare and will Serve 4, remember it should be served pot hot. Ingredients 250 gms tomatoes, quartered 1 onion, chopped 4 cloves garlic, crushed 4 green chillies, chopped 1 lemon-sized ball of tamarind 1 tbsp jaggery 1 tsp mustard seeds 10 curry leaves 1 red chilli, broken into two 1 tsp coriander seeds + 1 tsp cumin-seeds + 2 tsps peppercorns roasted ...

We at Prakasam trust staged a play "Hosabelaku" to bring in audiences to our new found auditorium in Basavanagudi called Kala Soudha.  This is a song from that play.  Play is directed by PD Sathish Chandra, Re Written based on the movie & novel (Movie directed by Dorai-Bhagwan and novel written by Ms. Vani) by Chandan Shankar and music is by M Rangarao. Lyrics: Kuvempu (teredide mane) & Chi Udayashankar (all other songs), Singer: Dr. Rajkumar, S Janaki, Vani Jayaram.  For further information on us and on the play please log on to prakasamtrust.org/hb When we started this production the intention was to entertain & also bring in new audiences to watch our production.  Because the audiences we were targeting were from areas around Kala Soudha , our new auditorium and were naive and not exposed to theatre and we did not want to shock them with a heavy play.  So we came up with this play took permission from the director of the m...

One day long back in history there was a guy called Pritam, who was famous for his photographs of Page 3 and the topper of the who's who list of Bangalore theatre scene, and who used to smile at me when I used to visit Koshies and I first thought he works there since there was no time in those days that he was not present when I visited there.  We did speak about theatre some times and he finally called me one day.  We did a play called Khel for which I got critical acclamation from people from the who's who ciricle.  Recently he woke up suddenly and over few glasses of rum told me that he has started making movies.  We took this up as a project for his videos and shot in basemen of Alliance Française.  We used lights of my car and Pritams newly adopted baby a sofisticated camera imported from some posh country.  There were three things which got hurt during making of this movie Amjad, Camera & my Car. It  recently got selected for a film festival online and I  want all of ...