09 June, 2014

Manoj Maurya's 'Reborn' Paintings exhibition at Nehru Art Gallery, Worli

As an artist, creative director, writer and thinker, Manoj Mauryaa explores multi-disciplinary approach to his creativity. His creations find expressions in paintings, films, poems, advertising campaigns & writing. He has launched many social and cultural innovations directed towards social empower ment and well being.


His upcoming exhibition for listings.

Exhibition : 'Reborn' by Manoj Mauryaa
Venue :Nehru Art Gallery, Nehru Centre , Worli 
Time : 10 am - 7pm 
Day : 10th June - 16th June 2014

About paintings:

Manoj Maurya's paintings are highly thought centric, contemporary and introspective. They interact with you, provoke thought, action and intellect. He is a strong proponent for constructive art. An art that has the potential to influence the contemporary times with its journey, is constructive in true sense. Subjects often seen in his paintings include spirituality, philosophy, mysticism, social issues, current affairs, women and nature.

Performing arts with visual arts- experiment

The artist has explored a unique experiment with his painting, merging visual art with performing art. It started with painting on the canvass of a play in progress, Andha Yug at Prithvi theatre. The sound and light effects with the dialogues and expressions emoted by the actors acted as a germ of inspiration and Manoj filled his empty canvass with vibrant hues of a spiritual painting with a contemporary social relevance. In a similar fashion sometimes on a backdrop of live musical performance, plays and dance dramas Manoj has expressed his versatile thinking on virgin canvass.
At Prithvi theatre he created as painting on the Subconscious journey of Krishna, Gandhari and Arjun and its contemporary relevance with the back drop of the play Andha Yug (A slice from Mahabharat). Similarly with te backdrop of a Hindi Play by Faiz Ahmed Faiz he produced a hard hitting painting on Hunger Politics and Common Man


India ReBorn- from an Artists view

Manoj Muarya’s ReBorn will see a timely launch. Just as the country has cohesively decided its fate by turning the government in an effort towards a fresh beginning, artist Manoj Maurya has also unleashed his creative work that addresses the need for a fresh beginning. It may seem as a coincidence by the artist believes that at the crux of this change of government lies a very strong spiritual metamorphosis of an entire nation that has manifested itself in the general election. Just as his own experience of destruction led to a sapling of thought and an upsurge of creative expression, India too has experienced a need for ReBorn. 


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Soha Ali Khan’s Charfutiya Chhokare

Sunill Khosla & Vibha Dutta Khosla produced
“CHARFUTIYA CHHOKARE”
Releasing 1st August 2014

Neha Tandon is an NRI girl who is coming back to India to start a school in her parent’s native village. Optimistic and happy about her endeavor, she is unaware of the hardships, obstructions and risks awaiting her in this small serene village.
Her meeting with three boys Awadhesh, Hari and Gorakh is pleasant and happy but it’s the beginning of a nightmare. Hardcore criminals, these three boys become center of her activities. She vows to stops the criminal and sexual exploitation of children in the village. Her meeting with Janaki – mother of one of the boy, Awadesh- explains the deeply embedded political-criminal nexus in the system. Neha is resolute to free the three of them from the world of crime.
Will she succeed or she will have to accept the terms and conditions set by criminals in the region? Will there be a revolution of change in this small village?
Soha Ali Khan
Seema Biswas
Zakir Hussain
Mukesh Tiwari
Lekh Tandon
Child actors – Harsh Mayar (I am Kalam fame), Shankar Mandal  and Aditya Jaiswal
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http://www.filmytown.com/soha-ali-khans-charfutiya-chhokare/#sthash.CBLK4af3.dpuf

FILMISTAAN – Film Review


Rating: ***


Sunny, a wanna-be-actor goes with an American crew to remote areas in Rajasthan to work on a documentary. One day an Islamic terrorist group kidnaps him for the American crew-member.

The house in which he is confined belongs to a Pakistani Aftab (Inaamulhaq), whose trade stems from pirated Hindi films, which he brings back every time he crosses the border.

Soon, the two factions realize that they share a human and cultural bond. The film shows how cinema can be the universal panacea for co-existence.


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http://www.filmytown.com/movies/filmistaan-film-review/