What's On picks

Samvaad
At: CFD, Centre For Film and drama
Entry: Free
On: August 31, 4.30 pm
Call: 9739803104
Mashaal brings to you Samvaad, a play reading. Samvaad, which means a dialogue is an effort to bring more, plays to you through the age-old medium of reading. The reading will be done in Hindi.

Fashion show
At: TGIF, Airport Road
On: August 28, 9 pm onwards
Krishnamani Ballal, one of Bangalore's oldest designers and the creator of the label KRSNA, will be showcasing her latest collection and designs this Thursday. The designer will Showcase a set of three varied collections, primarily incorporating evening wear, each is a narrative of the vibrance and zest, designed keeping in mind today's generation.

All shook up
On: August 29 to September 1, 7.15 pm to 9 pm
At: Chowdiah Memorial Hall
Tickets: Rs 150 to Rs 500
Call: 9886055868
The Cause Foundation has completed ten years of musical history in the city and is back again with their annual production. This year they are performing the hilarious musical comedy inspired by the songs of Elvis Presley 'All
Shook Up'.
This musical contains foot tapping music, vibrant dances and costumes and promises to be a visual treat for the entire family. 'All Shook Up' deals with a small American town in the 1950's that recognises the unjustness of segregation after a leather jacketed stranger motorcycles into this sleepy, prudish town. It is ultimately about the power and magic of music and its role in dissolving inhibitions and class tensions.

The first leaf
At: Ranga Shankara, JP Nagar
On: August 26, 7.30 pm
Call: 9886998550
This is the story of the joys and challenges of a middle class family residing in the Gurukripa Society. It is about Putti, her brother Dodu and Chinna, all between the age of six and eight who live in a time that is approaching an environmentally endangered future that is as real as today and looms as close as tomorrow. The play presents in a lighter vein, the idea that the world is not just ours, it belongs to our children too and progress comes at a price.

Heegadre Henge?
At: Ranga Shankara, J P Nagar
On: August 29, 7.30 pm
Call: 26713009
This play presents a few humorous episodes from the lives of the elderly middle-class couple, Sarasamma and Mylarayya. The play is about an educated Mylarayya's desperate attempts to relearn his mother-tongue when it is declared the official language and Sarasu's attempts to become a writer and her being conned by a fake film script-writer.

Adaddella olithe?
At: Ranga Shankara, J P Nagar
On: August 31, 7.30 pm
Call: 26713009
The play revolves round the antics of a middle-aged couple, Bhageerathi and Kapanipathi, whose children are grown up and live in distant cities. As they squabble over petty domestic matters, they receive letters from their son and daughter. While the son has written to invite them over to Bombay for the coming Deepavali, their artist-daughter, who is married to a gentleman from France, announces her desire to bring her husband home. Bhageerathi sees the visit to Bombay as a long-awaited opportunity to exercise her power as the mother-in-law, while Kapanipathi wants to subject his French son-in-law through the torture he has experienced during his first Deepavali at the in-laws' house. But both of them are in for surprises.