RUBINA’S RADAR | Ancient SCULPTURES AND Modern day HISTORIES OF THE RAILWAY Adult men – Rubina A Khan
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DECEMBER 1, 2023
Humanity is but an amalgamation of ancient cultures, of the excellent and the wonderful, but not without the terrible and evil either. Modern day histories on the other hand, are tales of yesterdays informed right now, with enchanting whimsy and hope, a good illustration currently being The Railway Gentlemen – The Untold Story of Bhopal 1984 on Netflix. Celebrating ancient cultures with Mediterranean sculptures is a new show at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya in Mumbai, India known as Historical Sculptures: India Egypt Assyria Greece Rome from December 2nd, 2023 to Oct 1st, 2024.
MUMBAI: A new exhibition, a first of its type, Historic Sculptures: India Egypt Assyria Greece Rome opens on December 2nd, 2023 at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya (acknowledged as the Prince of Wales Museum of Western from 1905-1998) in Mumbai, India. The Historic Sculptures show explores why we need to look at, and appear int our historical connected earth, with curators from CSMVS, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, The British Museum and The Getty Museum coming alongside one another to explain to the stories of shared cultures. They have picked sculptures to be exhibited together with objects from Indian establishments at the show which commences on December 2nd and goes on until Oct 2024. The objects on display were being decided on by the curators at CSMVS in Mumbai that increase to the cultural and historical significance of the tales of India’s loaded antiquity, earning for compelling storytelling from historic Greece and Rome. The Indian general public will be equipped to see historic inventive achievements of the ancient Mediterranean with India’s incredibly individual cultural treasures for the very first time at CSMVS.
Sekhmet: Goddess of Destruction Mottled granodiorite, Thebes (fashionable Karnak), Egypt c. 1390-1352 BCE ©Trustees of The British Museum, London, United Kingdom.
A panel dialogue at CSMVS on opening day, on December 2nd at 5:30pm, has been organised with main assistance from Getty, known as Why Historical Sculptures Matter(s) – A discussion on the building of Historical Sculptures: India Egypt Assyria Greece Rome. Joyoti Roy, Challenge Curator of Historic Sculptures (Curator Artwork, CSMVS) and Nilanjana Som, Curator Ancient Sculptures (Curator Art, CSMVS) will be in conversation with Professor Dr Andreas Scholl, Director of Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (Berlin, Germany) and Dr Thorsten Opper, Curator Greek and Roman Sculpture, The British Museum (London, Uk) moderated by Renuka Muthuswami, Curator Historic Sculptures, CSMVS on the working day.
The museum was named the Prince of Wales Museum of Western India to honour HRH the Prince of Wales, as experienced laid the foundation stone of the museum building on November 11, 1905 in Mumbai. The Prince of Wales went on to turn out to be George V, King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India, from May possibly 6th, 1910 right up until his dying in 1936. George Wittet, a Scottish architect, was chosen via an open up level of competition to design and style the museum constructing in 1909 and the design of the setting up was finished in 1914. The spectacular Indo-Saracenic architectural design and style of the museum making embodies aspects from Hindu, Islamic and Western architecture. Curiously, for the duration of Environment War I in 1914, the creating was employed as a armed service medical center and named Girl Hardinge War Medical center, and it was employed as a medical center all over again for the duration of the influenza pandemic from 1918-1920. The museum as we know it these days, was opened to the general public 17 a long time following its ideation and building, on January 10, 1922 in Mumbai. Wittet also created the Gateway of India to commemorate the landing of George V, the very first British monarch to check out India, for his coronation as the Emperor of India in December 1911. George V experienced visited India before in 1905 as HRH the Prince of Wales, getting to be monarch in 1910.
Historical Sculptures: India Egypt Assyria Greece Rome is on from December 2nd, 2023 to Oct 1st, 2024 from 10:15 AM to 6:00 PM at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya: 159-161, Mahatma Gandhi Highway, Kala Ghoda, Fort, Mumbai, Maharashtra 400001.
MUMBAI: The Railway Males – The Untold Tale of Bhopal 1984 launched on Netflix on November 18th, 2023. The series is a backbone-chilling, heart-wrenching portrayal of a catastrophic massacre of human daily life – the Bhopal gas tragedy in India in 1984 and the Sikh genocide in the identical calendar year. A 45 ton methyl isocyanate gas leak on December 2nd, 1984, from the US-owned chemical firm, Union Carbide Corporation’s pesticide plant established up in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh in 1969 as Union Carbide India Constrained, killed hundreds of people today alternatively of the agricultural pests and bugs it was intended to. The chemical leak from the plant happened due to substandard operating and safety processes and understaffing at the plant. The 4-element minimal sequence, a cinematic tale of heroism and humanity in the face of imminent loss of life and despair honouring the unsung heroes of the tragedy, is the 1st enterprise from Yash Raj Films’ Amusement, the streaming articles arm of Yash Raj Movies. It also marks the beginning of a multi-yr creative partnership concerning Netflix and Yash Raj Films.
R. Madhavan, Kay Kay Menon, Divyendu and Babil Khan in The Railway Adult males ©Yash Raj Enjoyment ©Netflix
The Railway Guys is an acting-led series. The sequence blazes through with phenomenal performances by every single solitary actor in the collection, but not without the need of a flawless script, screenplay and dialogue, meticulously created by YRF Leisure and ably directed by Shiv Rawail. I liked Kay Kay Menon’s performance as Iftikhar Siddiqui, Bhopal Junction’s station master. Menon is an complete acting masterclass in the collection. You can read through his deal with, expressive of just about every very little human emotion and nuance, bereft of dialogue. And with dialogue, you simply cannot acquire your eyes off Menon’s railway station learn act all through the collection. Dibyendu Bhattacharya’s overall performance as Kamruddin, a Union Carbide manager, is exemplary, as is Raghubir Yadav’s enactment of a prepare guard on the Gorakhpur-Bhopal Express. Babil Khan is fantastic as the clean and righteous locomotive driver Imaad Riaz as is Divyendu in his aspect as a multi-layered dacoit, Balwant Yadav. Juhi Chawla Mehta is a refined and succinct lousy-ass in her portrayal of Rajeshwari Janglay, a railway bureaucrat. Sunny Hinduja is earnest and equipped as journalist Jagmohan Kumawat, as is Sunita Rajwar as Vijaya, a cleaning woman at the railway station. The Railway Adult men is an outstanding sequence to come about from India, about India, and it is a have to-watch!
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