'Adda at Ranan': The Lost Art of Dastangoi - photographs and comments

Photographs by Indudipa Sinha

Mahmood Farooqui, Anusha Rizvi and Danish Hussain visited Calcutta for the first time with their acclaimed rendition of Dastangoi on Sunday, 12 September 2010. Their presentation formed the concluding evening of The New Festival at The Park Hotel. 


The following afternoon, Ranan hosted the trio in an informal adda on their discoveries and experiences with Dastangoi. They talked about the history of the form and its present day situation, and answered several questions which their performance of the night before had thrown up. 


COMMENTS

Loved the Dastangoi session. The informality of the space and the event will draw me back to the Ranan space in future too.

Kathakali Jana

It was really nice and interesting. Informative as well. I have got some very interesting insights into this ancient Islamic art of storytelling.

Sonu