The ‘Maapilai’ By Abhishek Iyengar

For those who can take humor in a humorous way! He sits there gazing at every family proceedings! a sense of pride in him, he declares himself as the ‘adhipathi’ <leader> of the masses. He is one of those pseudo dons who directs the whole family on his finger tips. He is the declared-universal king! [...]

Macha!- she is there da!- By Abhishek Iyengar

A:-”Macha! we have those steps da, It is kinda cool macha!” B:-”No da, see here is what we need to do, get the first song, cut half into it maga and then mix it with a ‘pop’ macha! think Micheal jackson you duffer!” C:-”Ok Macha, then what we do is we will pull those steps, [...]

Sneak Peak- The year that was 2009- By Abhishek Iyengar

Yet another year comes to an end, as we say bye to the first decade of the 21st Millennium, year 2009 was in many ways a remarkable and historic year. Like any year 2009 was filled with excitement and its own share of bad and good news! so lets take a while and take a [...]

WeMove’s Tatyana Moha- By team WeMove

WeMove Productions presents Tatyana Moha ‘Tatyana Moha’ is a unique play which depicts the current socio-economic problems faced by the people below poverty line. Abhishek Iyengar’s Kannada adaptation of Mahaswetha Devi’s Bengali play “Jhonny and Urvashi” revolves around certain characters that represent the epitome of bad luck, poverty and illness. The interesting turn-around in the [...]

WeMove’s Confessions of an Assasin, Curtain raiser

(The article was first published in TIME OUT Bengaluru) The original article can be read online at http://www.timeoutbangalore.com/theatre/theatre_details.asp?code=134&source=2 Time Out Magazine’s Brain recently interviewed Bharath Kashyap of WeMove Productions about his new Directorial venture Confessions of an Assassin Catch this unique Devised performance at On 22nd November, 2009 At 11:30 A.M @ Kyra Theatre, 2001, [...]

Yeddi, Reddy,Common Man and I!- By Abhishek Iyengar

“Yeddi is suffering, each day he comes up with a new statement, Karnataka politics is too bad, I must say worse…” utters an aged man who might be in his 70′s enjoying his plate of pani puri. Location:- First block, Rajajinagar, Pani puri Adda Situation:- A casual conversation with the Pani puri vendor Occasion:- Time [...]

A Comedy play by WeMove

When was the last time you watched a live performance? WeMove’s most hilarious play hits Bangalore Once again This time at RangaShankara WeMove production’s “Nannavala Kagada” on August 18th, 2009 at 7.30 P.M i.e tomorrow! Written by S. Gundurao, Nannavala kagada is a humorous play; the main protagonist of the play is supposed to be [...]

Theatre and Me??!!?- By Abhishek Iyengar

(This Article was first written in 2007 during the first anniversary of then WeMove and now WeMove foundation for Performing Arts(R) the article is actually the story behind formation of Bangalore’s successful theatre group WeMove) It was yet another day, after I finished watching the never ending, boring, conceptualizing, tension inducing and yet interesting Kannada [...]