The Urban Turban!

What do a pug called Kapalee, the jaw movements of a crocodile, cows on the roads, arranged marriage and large turbans have in common? Well, together with scrumptious food, a rocking ambience and a super crowd, they all add up to Evam’s “Urban Turban” at Kyra on the 29th of December in namma Bangaluru.
High and fresh out of it, the play is now hitting Alliance on the 11th and 12th of December, and we can’t wait for more of Bangalore to check it out!

Quoting the director, Sunil Vishnu K. – “The Show is our way of creating a stage platform, where we all get to vent …oops…share our urban stories – tall tales from the top of our head.. of the urban, by the urban ,for the urban,  stories set in urban reality… told from the heart and with a sense of humour- all in all an evening of urban angst and soul served right up your alley! Slice of life urban stories meets desi indian stand-up comedy meets evam to create URBAN TURBAN!’’

Details:

Alliance Francaise, Vasanthnagar

Dec 11th- 5:30pm (@ Rs. 150), 8pm

Dec 12th- 3pm, 5:30pm, 8pm

Tickets- Rs. 200

Tickets available at

Landmark (both), Crossword Book Store (Residency Road), Blossoms Book House (Church Street), Goobe’s Book Republic (Church Street) & www.indianstage.in

For details, call 9686467771 or 09840222363

On-ground partner – Landmark

Retail partner – Fabindia

Hospitality partner – The Church Street Inn

Join facebook event here

Cheers! See you there!

evam is performing at Kyra this Sunday!

We’re performing the first time at Kyra and we’re super kicked about it!

We have 3 shows of “The Show“, aka, “Urban Turban“, evam’s latest production.

The show will premiere at Kyra and the same format will hit Chennai and Bangalore in December too.

This is your chance to catch the first of it!

Sit back, eat, take a leisurely sip and get ready for an engaging 90 minutes!

Details:

Venue: Kyra, 100ft road, Indiranagar

Date: Nov 29th

Phone: 43389292, 9632203333

For more, check out www.kyra.in

Tickets available at www.bookmyshow.com and www.indianstage.in

Join the facebook event here

Ok here’s a little something fresh out of the oven. Obesity foundation of India is organizing a Walkathon (Not to worry, it’s only as fancy 2 Km.)

Date: 5th December 2009
Event Timing: 6:30 AM to 9:00 AM
Reporting Time: 6:00 AM
Reporting Place: Light house

Ms.Kanimozhi and a considerable number of celebrities from various walks of life have beaten you, to graciously accepting to participate in the same. Incidentally, Miss Kanimozhi is the face of this campaign.

FAQs

Why Obesity?

Obesity when combined with Diabetes, hypertension, cancer etc. gives rise to a deadly combination. And off late, this deadly combination is becoming a common phenomenon in South India.

I’m not obese, need I come?

YES.  Simply because one does not hear of Obesity, as often as one does, about cancer, AIDS or even Rakhi ka Swayamvar. It’s your job to create a hullabaloo about something besides Rakhi’s insipid life.

Not convinced?

The beach at 6 in the morning, is a treat for sore eyes.  Just come, will you???

Related links:

www.ofi.co.in

http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/event.php?eid=181901260837&ref=mf

OFI helpline: 2374 5055

Harish Ramaswamy – TeamEvam

So many questions put forth by life, the search of whose answers, turns into a desultory dig-up of further questions. Matters of commonplace, consequence or maybe somewhere between the two. We’ve all thought about it, we all relate to it. The boundless options and choices. The prioritizing. The decision making. Ah.. Who doesn’t mull over the intricacies of life?
Finally, an evening to take light. Evam’s new stand up- Urban Turban, with Karthik Kumar, Shannon, Navin, TMK. Kickback and laugh over life’s troubles. An exciting new venture! An evening that will make your existence seem so uncomplicated and smooth. Two evenings, in fact. Come, join in the laughter on the 5th and 6th of December, in Alliance Francais- top storey at 3 pm, 530 pm and 8 pm.
You’re just 150 bucks away from experiencing “My Dog, Her name is Kapalee” and “East Aur West”. Real life in drama.

Bhavya Balantrapu- TeamEvam

That academic wretchedness of IIT, escaping the real world through the sweet taste of social taboos, and the cliched yet truly comforting sensation of friendship and love. Sound familiar? You read it by the neck-breaking writing of Chetan Bhagat, possibly saw the stage production in Chennai, couple of years ago. Well, it’s back and it’s on for three months, going national!
Five Point Someone by Evam, presenting an all Bangalorian cast. With a variety of characters to choose from, the auditions will kickstart the production on 15th and 16th of November at what they call:
Bangalore615/14, 3rd cross Raghavendra Colony, Behind IIM, Billekahalli, B’lore – 76
Try the twelve hour drill on day one from 10 AM to 10 PM, or just show your stuff on day two between 10 AM and 4 PM.
Seven cities in three months, Five Point Someone. There’s some math, I’ll never figure out.
But it’s really quite simple. 9686467771, 09840222363 and teamevam@gmail.com will tell you how.

Bhavya- TeamEvam!

Just a quick update on what’s up-

It’s 5 down, 10 to go!

5 colleges have been through the workshop, given the whole theatre gyaan, energized and are ready to go!

Colleges done so far:

1. Ethiraj

2. Womens Christian College, WCC

3. SRM

4. Loyola College

5. SRM Eashwari

And NIFT and Sastra (Tanjor. Yes, the first out of Chennai college) are going through it over the weekend.

For details, check out:

facebook

pictures

For months, there have been rumours, murmurs, discussions and truck loads of gossip. They all say, “Pavi is getting married to Navin!” (in the interest of general readers, Pavi alias Pavithra Ramaswamy is one of evam’s oldest employees. And no, by ‘old’, we mean experience old, not age old )

Brief history – Navin and Pavi met at the first CUT workshop. Eyes met, hearts swapped, the whole nine yards, you get the picture right? So anyway- 4 years or so later, they are getting MARRIED!

So it began with some 8 different functions in 3 different cities. And yes, that’s why evam has been in hiding for a while. We’ve been busy with the wedding

So evam was basically designated two very important jobs.

A) The mehendi dance and

B) The conduct of the wedding!

So here’s the deal. The mehendi function is on Wednesday and on Monday, we decide to dance. Chaos and confusion, initially! Lots of it! We gathered around fifteen people to dance and organizing it wasn’t too hard after all, owing to star dancers in team like Aparna, Bhavya, Megha and the legend-wait for it-ary “LP!”. We choreographed about ten songs and D-Day was not too far away! The music began and so did the jitters! We had a really cool storyline planned out for the dance and the whole event was a HUGE hit!

The next function, the wedding was on! The bride decided that she was the “DUDE” of the wedding, with extremely comprehensive department allotments and all that jazz. Everything was super organized and absolutely brilliant.So yeah, the thaali was tied (iyengar and mallu style) and everyone was happy

Here’s to Pavi and Navin, we wish you guys a lifetime of happiness and to Evam, for spreading more and more happiness like we always do!

Cheers

Harish Ramaswamy, Team Evam

Amidst visiting relatives, gulping down sweets, bursting crackers and getting drowned in boring, pointless yet impossible-to-tear-away-from television, we took some time off to visit the cancer institute for Diwali!

In April our Project HAPPY took over the children’s play room of the Cancer Institute’s new Pediatric Ward in Adyar.

Diwali we went, hung out with the kids, burst crackers, shared a few laughs.. Shared the spirit of the festival of light.

Here are some of the ‘happy!’ snaps

Cheers Rohit Lakshman – Team Evam

Evam Refresh.

EVAM’S Earnest Idiot for Art Couple Hyssteria Hamlet BEACH DAY
or, for short - Evam’s E.I.A.C.H.H Beach Day (pronounced EACH BEACH DAY)

Evam mave (turn evam on its head!)

Ewham day

E-day

evam BLAZE- Fun in the surf and sun

That’s few of the hundred names we thought we would call the 22nd of August! We never fixed on anything though

Brief background- we though we’d take a break,  break out of the comforts of daily routine, the tranquility of the familiar and other such things!

And it turned out to be one of the best stress-busters we’ve had in a long time!!

Check out the snaps

All hail beach houses!!