Mumbai weekend cultural calendar: An electronica concert, city walks, and more

FRIDAY, MARCH 25
MUSIC Pratahswar with Mukul Shivputra at Ravindra Natya Mandir
This edition of Pratahswar, the series of dawn-time Hindustani classical music concerts organised by event company Pancham Nishad, will feature a solo recital by Pune-based vocalist Mukul Shivputra, who will celebrate his 60th birthday on the day of the event. There is no entry fee; seating is on a first come, first served basis.
When: Friday, March 25 at 6.30 am.
Where: Ravindra Natya Mandir, behind Siddhivinayak Temple, Prabhadevi. Tel: 022 2436 5990.

WALKS The Lalbaug Stroll by Khaki Tours
Khaki Tours will conduct a walk around the Lalbaug area that will cover a buffalo god temple, a Muslim shrine with Hindu caretakers, a two-acre farm, the masala market and chiwda galli among other attractions. Tickets priced at Rs 500 per head are being sold on Insider.in. For more details, see the Facebook event page.
When: Friday, March 25 at 8 am.
Where: The meeting point is outside the Gundecha Gardens gate in the Gas Co. Lane, Lalbaug.

THEATREMain Huun Yusuf Aur Yeh Hai Mera Bhai at Prithvi Theatre
Directed by Mohit Takalkar and written by Palestinian playwright Amir Nizar Zuabi, this Hindi play is set in Palestine in 1948 during the end of the British mandate over the region. Ali and Nada love each other, but her father won’t let them marry because of Ali’s seemingly strange brother Yusuf. Tickets priced at Rs 300 per head are being sold on Bookmyshow.com.
When: Friday, March 25 and Saturday, March 26 at 6 pm and 9 pm.
Where: Prithvi Theatre, Janki Kutir, Juhu Church Road, Juhu. Tel: 022 2614 5917.

COMEDY Colin and Brad at the NCPA Jamshed Bhabha Theatre
Improv comedy exponents Colin Mochrie from Canada and Brad Sherwood from the US, best known for their appearances on the popular TV show Whose Line Is It Anyway?, will perform. Tickets priced at Rs 3,750 and Rs 4,750 per head, which entitle you to food and drink before the show, are being sold on Bookmyshow.com.
When: Friday, March 25 at 6.30 pm.
Where: Jamshed Bhabha Theatre, National Centre for the Performing Arts, Nariman Point. Tel: 022 2282 4567.

MUSIC Awestrung with Lucky Ali + Rang at High Street Phoenix
This month’s instalment of the gig series held at the courtyard of the High Street Phoenix mall complex will feature performances by city-based Hindi rock band Rang and Indi-pop and Bollywood playback singer Lucky Ali. Entry is free and via registration on Insider.in. See the Facebook event page for more information.
When: Friday, March 25 at 6.45 pm.
Where: Courtyard, High Street Phoenix, Senapati Bapat Marg, Lower Parel.

THEATRE Vasant Gujarati Natya Utsav at the NCPA Experimental Theatre and Godrej Dance Theatre
This year’s edition of the National Centre for Performing Arts’s annual festival of Gujarati theatre will feature performances of Kamlesh Mota’s I Love Shah Rukh (Friday, March 25 at 7 pm at Experimental Theatre); Mota’s Draupadi (Saturday, March 26 at 4 pm at Godrej Dance Theatre); Ankit Gor’s I Want to Tweet (Saturday, March 26 at 7 pm at Experimental Theatre); Manoj Shah’s Gathariya (Sunday, March 27 at 4 pm at Godrej Dance Theatre); and Dharmendra Gohil’s Colours (Sunday, March 27 at 7 pm at Experimental Theatre). For more details, see here. Tickets, priced at Rs 200, Rs 250 and Rs 300 per head per play for those at the Experimental Theatre at Rs 250 per head per play for those at the Godrej Dance Theatre, are being sold on Bookmyshow.com.
When: Friday, March 25 to Sunday, March 27.
Where: Experimental Theatre and Godrej Dance Theatre, National Centre for the Performing Arts, Nariman Point. Tel: 022 2282 4567.

MUSIC Chisti Brothers at Nehru Centre Auditorium
Concert organising company Banyan Tree Events will host a recital by the qawwali singing siblings the Chisti Brothers to mark the finale of the fifteenth anniversary celebrations of their Sufi and mystic music festival Ruhaniyat. Donor passes priced at Rs 300 and Rs 500 per head are being sold on Bookmyshow.com.
When: Friday, March 25 at 7.15 pm.
Where: Nehru Centre Auditorium, Nehru Centre, off Dr Annie Besant Road, Worli. Tel: 022 2496 4680.

THEATRE I Don’t Like It. As You Like It at St. Andrew’s Auditorium
Rajat Kapoor’s I Don’t Like It. As You Like It, which opened this year’s edition of Aadyam, the theatre promotion initiative by the Aditya Birla Group, is about a group of clowns attempting to stage Shakespeare’s As You Like It. Read our review here. Tickets priced at Rs 300, Rs 500, Rs 750 and Rs 1,000 per head are being sold on Bookmyshow.com.
When: Friday, March 25 at 7.30 pm and Saturday, March 26 at 4 pm and 7.30 pm.
Where: St. Andrew’s Auditorium, St. Andrew’s College, St. Dominic Road, Bandra (West). Tel: 022 2640 1657.

FOOD & DRINK Panacea at House of Tales
Hauslandish Hospitality, the enterprise behind Colaba-based food delivery service The Bao Haus Co., is hosting this pop-up dinner of baos and cocktails. The food menu will feature pork belly bao with watermelon salad; fish and chips with tartar sauce; and banh mi bruschettas. Tiki cocktails made with malted banana juice, coconut milk, mango, pineapple and papaya will be prepared by Mariki Sayles, a mixologist at New York’s Michelin-starred French restaurant and bar Le Bernardin. The dinner is priced at Rs 3,000 per person. To reserve a seat, call 022 2204 3446, 92222 64287 or email baohausmumbai@gmail.com. See the Facebook event page for more information.
When: Friday, March 25 and Saturday, March 26, at 8 pm and 10.30 pm.
Where: House of Tales, V. B. Gandhi Marg, Kala Ghoda, Fort. Tel: 022 2204 3446.

MUSIC Flako + Sandunes + Kumail at Bonobo
UK-based Chilean-German DJ-producer Flako aka Dario Rojo Guerra will headline this electronica gig organised by Wild City, the music website behind the Magnetic Fields festival held in Rajasthan every December. The entry fee is Rs 300 per head for the event, which will also feature sets by two Mumbai-residing acts, Sandunes aka Sanaya Ardeshir and Kumail, whose surname is Hamid. See the Facebook event page for more information.
When: Friday, March 25 at 9 pm.
Where: Bonobo, Second Floor, Kenilworth Mall, Phase 2, off Linking Road, behind KFC, Bandra (West). Tel: 022 2605 5050.

COMEDY Peacock Comedy at Canvas Laugh Club
Indian stand-up comedians Aamer Peeran, Abish Mathew, Aditi Mital, Ashish Dash, Azeem Banatwala, Kanan Gill, Kaneez Surka, Karunesh Talwar, Kunal Rao, Rohan Desai, Sanjay Manaktala and Sundeep Rao will each perform sets during this two-day event that will be hosted and recorded by American comic Tushar Singh for an album that will be released on the audio entertainment service Audible. Tickets priced at Rs 600 per head per day are being sold on Bookmyshow.com here and here.
When: Friday, March 25 and Saturday, March 26 at 10.30 pm.
Where: Canvas Laugh Club, Palladium mall, Third Floor, High Street Phoenix, Senapati Bapat Marg, Lower Parel. Tel: 90046 03115.

SATURDAY, MARCH 26
FOOD & DRINK The Bohri Kitchen’s Bohri Mohalla Brunch in Colaba
The home-run Bohri meal service The Bohri Kitchen will serve a brunch inspired by Bohri Mohalla, one of the city’s most vibrant neighbourhoods as far as food is concerned. The menu will include Bohri naan sandwiches; baida roti; mutton khichda; kaleji and gurda; chicken seekh biryani; and bheja fry bhuna. The meal is priced at Rs 1,999 per person. Book a seat here. See the Facebook event page for more information.
When: Saturday, March 26 at 11 am.
Where: The Bohri Kitchen’s Colaba address will be provided to those who register.

MUSIC Dakshinayan - A Treat of Carnatic Music at Nehru Centre Auditorium
Chennai-based musicians, violinists and brothers Ganesh and Kumaresh Rajagopalan and vocalist Sanjay Subrahmanyam, will perform a duet and solo recital respectively at this Carnatic classical music concert organised by the company Banyan Tree Events. Donor passes priced at Rs 200 and Rs 300 per head are being sold on Bookmyshow.com.
When: Saturday, March 26 at 6 pm.
Where: Nehru Centre Auditorium, Nehru Centre, off Dr. Annie Besant Road, Worli. Tel: 022 2496 4680.

MUSIC Wajahat Khan at Nehru Centre Complex
Cultural organisation Udayan will host a solo Hindustani classical music recital by Kolkata-based sarod player Wajahat Khan. Donor passes priced at Rs 200 per head are being sold on Bookmyshow.com.
When: Saturday, March 26 at 6.30 pm.
Where: Hall of Culture, Discovery of India section, Nehru Centre Complex, off Dr. Annie Besant Road, Worli. Tel: 022 2496 4680.

MUSIC SOI Chamber Orchestra with Marek Szlezer at the NCPA Tata Theatre
Polish pianist Marek Szlezer and the Symphony Orchestra of India’s Chamber Orchestra will perform both of Chopin’s piano concertos at this concert that will be helmed by his countryman, the SOI’s resident conductor Piotr Borkowski. Tickets priced at Rs 300, Rs 500 and Rs 837 per head are being sold on Bookmyshow.com.
When: Saturday, March 26 at 7 pm.
Where: Tata Theatre, National Centre for the Performing Arts, Nariman Point. Tel: 022 2282 4567.

SUNDAY, MARCH 27
WALKS Bhuleshwar Bhulbhulaiya by Khaki Tours
This walk through Bhuleshwar conducted by Khaki Tours will cover such landmarks as the sun temple, Bhuleshwar temple, a sea goddess shrine and papad galli. Tickets priced at Rs 500 per head are being sold on Insider.in. For more details, see the event Facebook page.
When: Sunday, March 27 at 8 am.
Where: The meeting point is outside Shiv Sagar restaurant at CP Tank.

FOOD & DRINK The Dining Table – Flavours of India at Cafe Terra
The third instalment of The Dining Table, a series of pop-up meals curated by food consultancy and events company Project Eat, will be catered by TV chef and author Saransh Goila, who will prepare a six-course menu of Maharashtrian matra mango salad (with yellow peas and pulses); palak patta chaat from Uttar Pradesh; ‘wallet’ kulchas with Andhra-style gongura mushrooms or gongura pork; his signature Punjabi butter chicken; Jammu-inspired rajma-chawal; and chocolate golgappa. The meal is priced at Rs 2,000 per person. To reserve a seat, call 99202 30240 or 98207 07659. See the Facebook event page for more information.
When: Sunday, March 27 at 1 pm.
Where: Cafe Terra, Hotel Executive Enclave, Dr. Ambedkar Road, Bandra (West). Tel: 022 6696 9000.

MUSIC Metal Mania at Hard Rock Cafe Worli
This month’s instalment of the metal gig series will feature sets by Pune-based Halahkuh and three Mumbai-residing acts, The Minerva Conduct, Sceptre and Demonstealer aka vocalist and guitarist Sahil Makhija who will launch and play tracks from his new album This Burden Is Mine. The cover charge is Rs 500 per head. See the Facebook event page for more information.
When: Sunday, March 27 at 8 pm.
Where: Hard Rock Cafe, Bombay Dyeing Mills Compound, Pandurang Budhkar Marg, Worli. Tel: 022 2438 2888.

ONGOING
MUSEUM EXHIBITION Tabiyat at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya
Organised by the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya, the British Council and the Wellcome Collection UK, this exhibition of artworks and objects related to medical practice and health in the subcontinent is a capsule of Indian medical history. Most of the exhibits are from the Wellcome Collection, a museum in London run by the medical research charity Wellcome Trust. See here for details. Tickets are priced at Rs 70 per head for Indian visitors above the age of 12, Rs 20 per head for children between the ages of five and 12 and Rs 300 per head for foreign nationals above the age of 12.
When: Until Monday, March 28. Open Tuesday to Sunday, from 10.15 am to 6 pm; Monday, closed.
Where: Premchand Roychand Gallery, Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya, Mahatma Gandhi Road, Kala Ghoda. Tel: 022 2284 4484.

ART Ravi Joshi at The Loft
Ahmedabad-based artist Ravi Joshi’s show titled Field will have more than 100 small-format landscapes and portraits.
When: Until Saturday, April 30. Open Monday to Saturday, from 10.30 am to 6.30 pm; Sunday, open by appointment.
Where: The Loft, Mathuradas Mill Compound, Tulsi Pipe Road, near Blue Frog, Lower Parel. Tel: 97694 57917.

ART Abraham George at Gallery Maskara
Mumbai-based artist Abraham George’s solo show animal.spirit.algorithm is a series of prints suggestive of “everything from architectural layouts to punch cards and circuit boards but also evoke older ordering systems like maps, tables, icons and totems”. The show includes video works such as ‘Shop Window’, which “follows the breakdown of perceptually continuous images into discrete blocks of information”. See here for a review.
When: Until Thursday, April 14. Open Tuesday to Saturday, from 11 am to 7 pm; Sunday and Monday, closed.
Where: Gallery Maskara, 6/7 Third Pasta Lane, Colaba. Tel: 022 2202 3056.

ART Desmond Lazaro at Chemould Prescott Road
The In-coming Passengers, Pondicherry-based artist Desmond Lazaro’s solo show, is a series of drawings, texts and video works about the migratory history of his family. Lazaro was born in Leeds in the UK to an Anglo-Indian family. His grandparents had immigrated there from Burma and his great-grandfather lived in Madras in the nineteenth-century. See here for a review and the gallery’s Facebook page for more information.
When: Until Saturday, April 16. Open Monday to Saturday, from 11 am to 7 pm; Sunday, closed.
Where: Chemould Prescott Road, Queens Mansion, Third Floor, G. Talwatkar Marg, near Cathedral School, Fort. Tel: 022 2200 0211.

ART Hemali Bhuta at Project 88
A number of works in Baroda-based artist Hemali Bhuta’s solo show Measure of a Foot have been made by dismantling installations that were part of an earlier exhibition titled Point-Shift and Quoted Objects. The show suggests “that these works of art, and the matter they contain, belong to a continuum. Lying on the ground, they are future memorials to their former selves”. For more information, see the Facebook event page.
When: Until Saturday, April 16. Open Tuesday to Saturday, from 11 am to 7 pm; Sunday and Monday, closed.
Where: Project 88, BMP Building, Narayan A. Sawant Marg, near Colaba Fire Station, Colaba. Tel: 022 2281 0066.

ART Lekha Washington at Sakshi Gallery
Mumbai artist Lekha Washington’s first solo show The Collective Noun or A Pound of Flesh and Suchlike is a set of installations, mixed media works and videos that explores “our relationship with ourselves, our bodies and our worlds”.
When: Until Thursday, March 31. Open Monday to Saturday, from 11 am to 6 pm; Sunday, closed.
Where: Sakshi Gallery, 6/19, Second Floor, Grants Building, Arthur Bunder Road, Colaba. Tel: 022 6610 3424.

ART Mysteries of the Organism at Akara Art
The new Colaba gallery’s first show has portraits and studies of the body by modern and contemporary Indian artists such as Amrita Sher-Gil, Manjit Bawa, Atul Dodiya, Justin Ponmany and Raqib Shaw. For more information, see the gallery’s Facebook page.
When: Until Friday, April 15. Open Tuesday to Saturday, 11 am to 6.30 pm; Sunday and Monday, closed.
Where: Akara Art, 4/5 Churchill Chambers, 32 Mereweather Road, Colaba. Tel: 022 2202 5550.

ART Sachin Bonde at Clark House Initiative
Mumbai artist Sachin Bonde’s solo show Soil Oil hinges on the politics of oil production. See here for a review and the Facebook event page for more information.
When: Until Sunday, May 15. Open daily, from 11 am to 7 pm.
Where: Clark House Initiative, Ground Floor, Clark House, 8 Nathalal Parekh Marg (Old Wodehouse Road), opposite Sahakari Bhandar, near Woodside Inn, in the lane opposite Regal Cinema, Colaba. Tel: 98202 13816.

ART The Art of Santiniketan at DAG Modern
An exhibition of paintings by artists Rabindranath Tagore, Ramkinkar Baij, Nandalal Bose and Benode Behari Mukherjee that explores the development of modernism in Santiniketan.
When: Until Tuesday, May 31. Open Monday to Saturday, 11 am to 7 pm; Sunday, closed.
Where: DAG Modern, 58 V. B. Gandhi Marg, Kala Ghoda, Fort. Tel: 022 4922 2700.

ART Womanhood: Through the Eyes of Indian and Modern Contemporary Art at Tao Art Gallery
An exhibition of paintings and sculptures on the theme of women by artists such as Chittaprosad, Nandlal Bose, Bharti Kher, Akbar Padamsee, Jamini Roy, F. N. Souza and Hemen Mazumdar. The show, which has been put together by arts organisation Osian’s, is part of its ongoing art and film festival ‘Womanhood: The Battle To Be Thyself’. For more details, visit Osianama.com.
When: Until Sunday, March 27. Open daily, from 11 am to 7 pm.
Where: Tao Art Gallery, 165 The View, Dr. Annie Besant Road, Worli. Tel: 022 2491 8585.

FOOD & DRINK Chef’s Table Week
During this edition of the bi-annual Chef’s Table Week, a culinary event organised by Cellar Door Hospitality, chefs across 16 fine dining establishments will serve six-course surprise menus priced at Rs 2,500 per person (excluding taxes). Participants in this edition include American restaurant Ellipsis in Colaba; San-Qi, the pan-Asian eatery at the Four Seasons Hotel in Worli; By The Mekong, the South-East Asian restaurant at the St. Regis Hotel in Lower Parel; and two modern Indian spots in Bandra Kurla Complex, Masala Library by Jiggs Kalra and Atul Kochhar’s Not Really Indian (NRI). For the complete list of restaurants and to make a reservation, see here. For more information, see the Facebook event page.
When: Until Sunday, March 27, at 1 pm and 8.30 pm.
Where: At select restaurants across the city.

ART Raja Ravi Varma at the Piramal Museum of Art
An exhibition of works by the nineteenth-century painter titled Pages of a Mind, Raja Ravi Varma: Life and Expressions.
When: Until Saturday, April 30. Open Monday to Friday, from 3 pm to 9 pm and Saturday and Sunday, from 10 am to 10 pm.
Where: Piramal Museum of Art, Piramal Tower, B Wing, Ground Floor, Peninsula Corporate Park, G. K. Marg, Lower Parel.