On a Friday evening if you are looking for a place to chill out, enjoy good food and drinks and also listen to some live music, head to Studio, Novotel Kolkata’s latest offering to the city. Studio is more of a club than a restaurant and they have interesting events lined up pretty much the entire week. There is ‘Newtown Wednesdays‘ especially for New Town, Salt Lake and South Kolkata residents. You will get live performances, stand-up comedians, one-act plays and a live DJ to keep you entertained. And a 20% discount on F&B for New Town residents. On ‘Thirsty Thursdays‘, there is a live DJ and Happy Hours from 6-11 pm and ‘Studio Live Fridays’ is where you can enjoy live performances by local talents and Happy Hours from 6-9 pm.
Sonar Goenda, Feludar Golpo – Feluda@50
It was in 1965 that a 27 year old, 6’2″ tall Bengali detective by the name of Prodosh Chandra Mitra or Pradosh C. Mitter with the nickname Feluda made his debut in a Bengali short story Feludar Goyendagiri written by Satyajit Ray. 50 years later, Feluda is still 27 and has not lost any of his cult fan following. Every Bengali is a Feluda fan. Be it a young boy or girl who is just starting off on the detective series or a person of 50 who has probably read every book in the series more than ten times, everyone wants to be a Feluda. We like his mannerisms, his wit, his ability to solve difficult cases and bring back precious artifacts from dangerous criminals. We remember every scene from the Feluda movies, every dialog and travel to Jaisalmer only to take a look at Sonar Kella because Feluda was there. What is it about Feluda that keeps him going at 50 and will he make it to 100 ? That was the topic of discussion at the penultimate session of the Tata Steel Kolkata Literary Meet 2016 on Republic Day where Boria Majumdar’s book Feluda@50 was officially released.
The original Feluda, Soumitra Chatterjee could not attend the session due to health issues and that was a huge disappointment but the conversation with the current Feluda, Abir Chatterjee, the author Boria Majumdar, director Sandip Ray and Chandril Bhattacharya was a most enjoyable one. Boria started off talking about his book and his personal connect with Feluda who he describes as the “Bengali Harry Potter“. He spoke of an incident when as a 23 year old man he was travelling to England to study at Oxford and on reaching, heard the news of his father passing away. He shared that on the flight back, he was holding on to a Feluda book the entire time. Not that he was reading it but just holding on to it gave him immense comfort. And I think that is the crux of a Bengali’s relationship with this fictional character. Feluda is nostalgia, Feluda is our childhood, Feluda gives us comfort, Feluda is our happy place.
Acting The Text – A Conversation With Tabu
Not many actors get the opportunity to play the role of both Lady Macbeth and Gertrude. Tabu has, albeit in a different language and in different interpretations and only she could have done justice to those characters. Tabu has a very simple approach towards acting the text. She never reads the classics. She only reads the scripts that are given to her and interprets the characters in her own way. And she says that she is extremely thankful to have worked with a director like Vishal Bharadwaj “who gives me these incredible characters to play. He believes that I will be able to play them well“.
Lucknawi Food Festival at Novotel Kolkata Hotel & Residences Till Jan 24th
Want a taste of the ‘dum’ style of cooking that is synonymous with Lucknow in our city? Head over to the Square at Novotel Kolkata Hotel & Residences, dig into delicious kebabs and delectable biryanis while mesmerizing Ghazals and enchanting Shayaris play sweet notes for your ears and soul!
I was invited by Novotel for an interaction with chef Abid Qureshi who has flown down from Lucknow specially for the festival and to enjoy his food. In the chef’s words “My menu is rooted in rich royal heritage of India and is a combination of subtle taste where flavors are as varied as India’s climate and as exotic as India’s royal culinary heritage“. Recreating the magic of the spices, Abid Qureshi has carefully handpicked spices and flavors often used in the kitchen of royal families.
Gear Up To Party With Nearbuy
As part of its December to Remember campaign, nearbuy (erstwhile Groupon India) brings together second year in a row, the largest party collection in the country. With more than 2500 X’mas and New Year party listings, nearbuy will be the destination of choice for more than half a million customers to grab their party passes.
The leading local commerce player also introduces a unique concept ‘Bloc 24’, featuring 24 of the country’s hottest EDM acts on December 24th! Party enthusiasts will be spoilt for choice with the likes of popular artists like Nikhil Chinappa, Progressive Brothers, Kerano and many more performing at some of the country’s best night clubs and five star properties. Tickets for these parties will be available exclusively on nearbuy.com under the special ‘December to Remember’ tab.
Click the below link to source Kolkata specific party details.
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