PD Ponders

ಸ್ವಂತ, ಸಂವೇದನೆಇಲ್ಲದ ಹಾಗು ಮೊಳಕೆಯೊಡೆಯದ ಭಾವನೆಗಳು ಬೇರು ಬಿಟ್ಟಿರುವ ಆಳದಲ್ಲಿ ಮಾನವತ್ವ ಬರುವವರೆಗು ಭಾರತೀಯತ್ವ ಒಂದು ಕನಸಾಗೇ ಉಳಿಯುವುದು. That was an ordinary day like any other, had a not so stressful day at shoot. So had taken out my laptop & was doing some research on 26/11 attacks. Also saw lots of tweets by RGV, movie trailers & was appreciating the craftsmanship of RGV. Performances of Nana & the boy who plays Kasab were impressive. Read a lot of positive feedback about the movie everywhere. Even I saw the small but well discussed tweet conversation & the bonding story. Was really moved by how the Maula song illustrates the madness of terror & terrorists. It got me to think about their life, why & how anything like this was possible.  Soon it was evening tea break, few more scenes were shot, pack-up was announced & was coming back home. The peaceful & usually crowd-less residential area of Raja Rajeshwa...

When we were young crackers were a luxury & was rationed like many things those days, like cement, bajaj chetak's etc. My fathers youngest brother Gopanna used to do the collection from my dad & eldest brother Gundanna aka Doddappa to buy crackers. He was an over organised man for his age. He used to buy exact number of crackers to the last bijilee & sparkler.  We were 14 kids in the joint family representing excietement equal to 10 timess what my daughters have now. It was division of cracker time on the eve of Balipadyami, the first day of deepavali. We boys got all the dhaam dhoom crackers & the girls got the sparklers, flowerpots etc. We had to split crackers later on for Bali Padyami, Narakachaturdashi & a small little lot for tulasi puja which falls after a month after Deepavali. I was always the first one to run out of crackers & then eye on the crackers of other cousin brothers, sometimes stealing them too. On the first day me & favorite cousi...

P D Sathish Chandra aka PD, is best known as an actor first and then a communications professional. After his last media stint as the Programme Director for 93.5 Red FM in Karnataka, he is now full time into acting in the sitcom Panduranga Vittala on Zee Kannada. He has been involved in all forms of performing acts, in movies ( Kutty Srank - winner of 7 national awards, Minugu, Prem Ka Game, Aa Dinagalu etc.) and is instantly recognised as the comedian from the TV sitcom Panduranga Vittala and for his other stints in serials like Gali Gali Sim Sim, Yakhingadtiro etc. He also ran a spoof news show for Public TV called Vaaranna for four months.  But his first love, theatre, takes centre stage. He has acted in over 50 plays in Kannada, English, Hindi, Marathi & Bengali. He has directed seven plays so far and is the director of the newest performing space in Bangalore, Kala Soudha. His Trust and theatre group Pradarshana Kala Samsthe or Pra.Ka.Sam is currently into p...

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...

Yesterday on Facebook had an interesting conversation with a friend, who happens to be soft, very well presented and mannered south Indian lady till she posted this picture.  I asked her on the post why is she doing such a thing & decided to message her instead of asking about her decision to do her bit for Moral Policing on Facebook.  I dont know if my conversation helped her to realise she too was Moral Policing like the goons in Mangalore,  but I felt an urge to share this story to all of you (hope you can read & understand Kannada typed in English).  The chat transcript is below the pic Actual Pic on FB which has lot of hate speech attached to it P D: Just wanted to know why did you share the ladies smoking pictures please, let me know only if you want to explain yourself S A: becoz ega tumba hudgiru e tara madtidare so avrella etara fb ge hakidanna nodi adru adu tappu anta smoking madodu bidtare anta P D: alla tappu annondu ava...

This name ವಾರಾನ್ನ (Vaaranna) is peculiar even to many Kannadiga’s now since the concept and tradition are long gone from the urban centres. This was an urban concept for most of its lifetime and the name literally means Weekly Rice. This was started by rich and good Samaritans who decided to give a day’s meal to poor kids who have come to the city for higher studies. The concept was very simple, the poor boy goes to home no one on Sunday, goes to home number two on Monday and home number seven on Saturday. These boys normally would spend time with the women folk who used to serve them their three square meals a day. The gossip of one house used to go around to the other and likewise. Extra gossip from the eighth house onwards was shared by Vaaranna boys used to join in their educational institutions and the gossip of the neighbourhood used to spread. We too are the Vaaranna boys of Bangalore, we not only will live out the old tradition but we shall in turn give you the weekly me...

BlueOcean Theater presents premier staging of their first production 4 PLAY A collection of 4 short plays in English and Gibberish IT'S OKAY! | PAYASAM | BRIDGE | THE BEAR based on the works of Anton Chekhov and Jayaprakash Kulur Enacted by cine and theater artists: Prakash Bare, Padmapriya, VK Prakash, Ann Augustine and others @7pm, Feb 18, 2012, at Alliance Francaise, Bangalore Directed by: Jayaprakash Kulur Contact: Thulasidhara Kurup - 9916458385, Vandana Prabhu - 7829902128 ITS OKAY! What can be the turning point in the day of an ordinary man? In this play based on Chekhov's "Death of a Clerk", set in Bangalore's Cubbon Park, our protagonist finds his life taking a turn beyond his wildest imaginations PAYASAM Based on Kulur's original play which was adapted in VKP's Kannada film Aidu Ondla Aidu. The play is about a newly wed couple, and how their lack of communication impacts the sweet beginnings of their marital bliss. BRIDGE What does a police ...