Playing Garba

Reported by Kamil Trivedi, Milwaukee, WI

Ramzat Group of Milwaukee in association with Gujarati Samaj of Wisconsin organized first of three 2010 Garba/Dandia event on 15th October at Milwaukee Sports Complex, Franklin. Nearly 500 fans participated and enjoyed palying Garba/Dandia. DJ Sujal of Hungama Entertainment played verious Gujarati folk songs for Garba mixing it up wth some of the hit bollywood tunes. President of Gujarati Samaj Mr. Amrit Patel gave credit to all team members for a successful event.

Playing Garba

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First Fans to get in

Reported by Swaminath Bhavani Shanker, Mequon, WI

We took a wild guess on the story and we marketed it. “We know Aishwarya will capture the hearts of everybody, Does Sana capture the heart of Chitty?” Our guess was close.

It was a working day and we started at 8 pm.We were among the first few lucky fans in the world to watch the premier of Endhiran. The movie was premiered  in Fox Bay Cinema grill at white fish bay Wisconsin. Rajni fans turned out in large numbers and enjoyed the visual feast and Director Shankars dream of 10 years.  All details of the movie were kept in tight wrap. The distributors released shipment details of the movie only on the date of release. We had to look at the film print to know we had ENGLISH subtitles.  Rajni took the time before his self destruction as Chitti to convey his message of the movie. Dont miss that. Chitti’s definition of “Who is God” & “Father Tongue is Tamil’ reminded of late writer Sujathas forward thinking. While Shankar has carefully portrayed Vaseegaran as the extremely dedicated scientist, he has made Chitti perform all the amazing stunts. Audience was pinned to the seats till the last frame. Rasul Pookuty will now be a house hold name for sound design.  To all the cast and crew, two years of hard work and some days of less than two hours of sleep has reaped the rewards, this is a movie PAR-EXCELLENCE.

Media Magnet Kalaanithi Maran is right, there is only one superstar, Rajni, and no one else can do what this man does at 61. He is an Avatar.

Yes, Rajni is right, “Rahman is Gods child.” Overall this is a masterpiece that will make history in Indian Cinema.

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Amjad Ali Khan, who has both continued and extended the art of Indian classical music on the sarod, will perform a concert at 8 p.m. July 30 at the Pabst Theater, 144 E. Wells St.

Western observers often liken the sarod, which is smaller than a sitar, to a lute or a guitar. It has a fretless metal fingerboard that produces a resonant sound and encourages sliding glissandi.

The Indian string instrument called the sarod looks a bit like a lute. Its rounded back is wooden, and its flat belly is made from goat skin. It has an unfretted, steel fingerboard and 25 steel strings, and in the hands of Amjad Ali Khan, its sound is delicate and highly expressive. He is a sixth generation sarod player from a family credited with creating the instrument, adapting it from the Afghan rabab.

Khan’s ensemble for this India Music Society concert will include his sons, Amaan Ali Khan and Ayaan Ali Khan, the seventh generation of his family to play sarod, and tabla player Vineet Vyas.

When Mr. Khan feels like talking about his craft, you listen. During the first half of his concert at Carnegie Hall on Saturday night, he quietly explained that there are two ways of playing the sarod. One way is with fingertips pressed on the fingerboard. He demonstrated some dull-toned melodic lines. Then he did it his way — taught to him by his father — using the grooved edges of the fingernails on the first two fingers of his left hand. The tone was focused and bright and singing, closer (for American ears) to the sound of bottleneck slide on a dobro.

Ustad Amjad Ali Khan – Master of Sarod-Live in Cologne

Source/Credits: JSOnline.com and Pabsttheater.org

Hindi Movie “I Hate Luv Storys”  is running at AMC Theatres – Mayfair Mall 18 till THURSDAY July 8th 2010.

STARRING: Imran Khan, Sonam Kapoor, Sammir Dattani, Samir Soni, Aamir Ali

Please refer to our calendar of events at http://wisconsinindian.com/events for more details and schedule.

Movie gets an average rating of 3 star and you may find the review details   at Times Of India.