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I haven’t watched TV or read newspapers or magazines for more than a year now, with one exception — twice a month, I stop by at the roadside magazine stall opposite my house and hand over thirty rupees for a copy of Time Out Mumbai.
However, even though I have been buying the magazine for almost two years now, I only started to think of it as a necessity when I started my experiment.
The thing is, when you decide not to consume any paid entertainment, you need to know what free entertainment is available in the city, and, even in the age of free information via the Internet, Time Out Mumbai remains the most comprehensive listing of such events.
So, every fortnight, I pick up my copy of Time Out Mumbai, read the reviews of all the new movies and plays I wouldn’t watch, look longingly at all the live music gigs I’ll miss, and tell myself that the few free events during the fortnight are more interesting than all the entertainment I would have otherwise paid for.
Sometimes, that is not far from the truth.
This fortnight, for instance, I’m almost spoiled for choice.
Friday, May 2, 6 pm
- Screening of Helke Sander’s film ‘The All Round Reduced Personality - Redupers’. Max Mueller Bhavan.
Friday, May 2, 7 pm
- Patrick French reads from his book ‘The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V S Naipaul’. Crossword, Kemps Corner.
Saturday, May 3, 6:30 pm
- Screening of Helke Sander’s film ‘The Subjective Factor’. Max Mueller Bhavan.
Sunday, May 3, 2:30 pm
- Master Class on Film with Shekhar Kapur and Sudhir Mishra. National Center for Performing Arts.
Monday, May 5, 6:30 pm
- Screening of Eric Rohmer’s film ‘My Night at Maud’s’. Alliance Francaise.
Wednesday, May 7, 6 pm
- Malin Suri draws links between mathematics and literature in a lecture titled ‘The Mathematics of Fiction’. American Center.
Wednesday, May 7, 6:30 pm
- Screening of ‘Preuves a l’appui: Eric Rohmer’, a documentary about the filmmaker. Alliance Francaise.
Thursday, May 8, 6:30 pm
- Screening of Helke Sander’s film ‘The Trouble With Love’. Max Mueller Bhavan.
Friday, May 9, 6:30 pm
- Screening of Helke Sander’s documentary ‘Liberators and Liberties’. Max Mueller Bhavan.
Saturday, May 10, 6 pm
- Screening of Michael Moore’s documentary ‘Sicko’. Little Theater, National Center for Performing Arts.
Tuesday, May 13, 6:30 pm
- Screening of Eric Rohmer’s film ‘A Good Marriage’. Alliance Francaise.
Thursday, May 15, 6:30 pm
- Screening of Eric Rohmer’s film ‘Pauline at the Beach’. Alliance Francaise.
So, if you are in Mumbai and want to meet up, do drop in at one of these events and buzz me at +919223366624. If we don’t bore each other to death in the first few minutes, we may even end up spending the rest of the evening sharing one of my last ten odd bottles of wine.
Comments (6)
In your pursuit to not to spend, please tell me what would you like to hear. If it does not bother your idea, I can always send you the mp3 format music of recent times, though I will not be spending money procuring them either( Though IPR issues may crop up).Austerity is Quite an dominant Indian virtue, I fully support you for this. I may be in Mumbai at the end of June. Hope to give a tring and meet you for those wine bottles if they are there by then.
Best wishes
Nishikant Bohra
HR & Marketing consultant, Visiting Faculty Marketing, Entrepreneur
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Iran cutural Festival at NCPA on Tuesday 6th, 6.30 pm.. since you are free. (Also on 5th, Monday)
Hi,
I really wanna know when exactly is this master class. I called ncpa… they have no clue. If you have any more info please post it. Thanks
Isn’t this thing available free of cost on the internet as the link on the image seems to suggest?
@Nishikant Thanks for your offer. As the months go by, I suspect that I’ll be relying more and more on the generosity of friends and strangers for my culture fixes.
My wine rack has run dry, but there’s still some other stuff. It will be great to meet up with you in June.
@Mukund: The Iran Cultural Festival would have been a little heavy for me. I’m not ‘that’ culturally inclined.
@Arunima: It was nice talking to you. I missed it too. You should drop in for the next movie marathon, though.
@Mayuresh: The Time Out website is subscription based, so no luck there.
By the way, someone at Time Out saw this post and asked me to write a piece for them on my off consumption experiment. Nice.