Category: Entertainment

The fame of Gujarati Literature, Tarak Mehta passes away in Ahemdabad

Tarak Mehta is no more! a big loss to the Gujarati Literature and satirical shows. The noted writer Tarak Mehta passes away at 87 in Ahmedabad after prolonged illness.

Tarak Mehta Smiling

About Tarak Mehta

Taarak Mehta is an Indian columnist, humorist, writer and playwright, who garnered huge popularity through his column Duniya Ne Undha Chasma in Gujarati language. The popular TV show ‘Taarak Mehta Ka Ooltah Chashmah’ is based on this column. His humourous column first appeared in Chitralekha in March 1971.He had been a well-known figure in Gujarati theatre. He had also published 80 books, over the years, three books are based on the columns he wrote in Gujarati newspaper Divya Bhaskar. He was awarded Padma Shri, the fourth highest civilian award of India, in 2015.

A renowned writer Tarak Mehta, who is an inspiration behind the famous TV show passes away. People are saddened by the news of his demise, as he was the one who made the whole country laugh at the same time through his TV Show ”Tarak Mehta ka Ooltah Chashmah”.

TV Show Tarak Mehta Ka Ooltah Chashmah

Today (1^st March 2017 Wednesday) Tarak Mehta took his last breath in Ahemdabad, after Tarak Mehta passes away his family members took the decision to donate his body to science. He was the one who made everybody smile by his books, plays, TV shows and will be missed by every citizen of India.

“Tarak Mehta ka Ooltah Chashmah” TV show was successfully running since 8 years and it is one of the most loved TV serials in our country. Be it children, adults, older people everyone liked his humourous content in the shows.

When talking about Gujarati theatre, Tarak Mehta’s name is on the top of the list. Such a personality will always be missed. After the news of his passing all out of condolences have been posted on the internet. He will be in memories of people forever. May his Soul REST IN PEACE.
The Salman Khan of the fat world: Jeeveshu Ahluwalia in Chandigarh

Jeeveshu Ahluwalia is known as THE SALMAN KHAN OF THE FAT WORLD. Jeeveshu Ahluwalia in Chandigarh will rock the show making everybody laugh with his satire.

Who is Jeeveshu Ahluwalia?

Jeeveshu is known as tall, dark and handsome… Oops – Short, fair and cute in the comedy world. His comedy career began as an extension to his antics at a mundane desk job. His humor style is derived from witnessing everyday conversations, quirky monologues, peculiar situations and some eccentric friends.

He quit his teenage (16-yearo-old) job and walked away to do Stand-Up. Three years later, he is happier bringing roaring laughter to thousands than lecturing a corporate smartass. Jeeveshu Ahluwalia is coming to Chandigarh to tickle your laughter out next month.

His fascination with comedy normally sways between a fat guy’s amusing life and failed attempts to please his over optimistic mother whose only dream is to get him married. And thinner. And taller. And younger…

Jeeveshu has risen notably from a novice to an audience favorite across all ages. Ahluwalia repeatedly appears on NDTV Prime in ”The Rising Stars of Comedy”. He is frequently seen in comedy shows and appears in events at auditoriums, clubs, colleges and corporate functions throughout the country. Jeeveshu was also one of the top 10 candidates for Comedy Circus Ke Ajoobe on Sony. He made his Bollywood debut with “Tamasha” starring Ranbir Kapoor and Deepika Padukone directed by Imitaz Ali.

Details of Jeeveshu Ahluwalia in Chandigarh

Date

17^th March 2017

Venue

Punjab Arts Council
Rose Garden, Sector 16-B, Chandigarh, India

Timings

07:30 PM

Passes

Cost: Rs. 499/-

Website: https://in.bookmyshow.com/events/punchliners-standup-comedy-show-feat-jeeveshu-ahluwalia-in-chandigarh/ET00053611

Hurry and book your passes online to be on the show to laugh your asses out with Jeeveshu Ahluwalia in Chandigarh. Come together with your family to set the Evening on Laughter. Book the date i.e. 17th March at 7:30 PM for the comedy show with Jeeveshu Ahluwalia in Chandigarh.
#TCB: Places to visit in Chandigarh- one for every mood

They say there are not a lot of places to visit in Chandigarh. But is it true? When I think of going out, I am spoilt for choices. Really? Yes! Because there is something for everyone and for every mood.

1. For when you need to be alone.

Places to visit in Chandigarh – Art Gallery

Wanting to be alone is the perfect opportunity for you to explore some new places. Thankfully, Chandigarh is a haven for loners. You could go visit the International Doll Museum or the Government Museum and Art Gallery. These places are really perfect for those looking for some me-time. At the same time, they are really informative and wonderful to look at.

2. For when you need the funnies.

You may not know it, but Tagore Theatre and the Panjab Arts Council are constantly staging plays. Mostly, they are the comedy and guarantee you a good laugh. The sad part? They generally do not get advertised a lot. But you can always drop by once in a while. Rest assured, you are bound to enjoy yourself!

3. For when you are hungry.

Let’s face it. Food is no problem in Chandigarh. There are loads of places for you to tingle your taste buds. Right from Sector-35 to Sector-26 to Sector-9, you will find a plethora of places to eat everywhere.

4. For when you are hungry, but broke.

But I understand that eating at all the above-said places is not always feasible. Especially, if you are a student on a shoestring budget, you might want to go for some affordable places. For those times, you always have the Stu-C in PU or the Chinese Market of Sector-15 or the bay shops of Sector-34 that serve lip smacking food at all times.

5. For when you are feeling adventurous.

There are times when you want to do something fun with your friends. Well, there are places for that too. The recently opened Mystery Rooms in Sector-35 is a great place to solve some ‘mysteries’. On the other hand, you can also go to the Adventure Zone in Amravati Enclave. There you can indulge in some paintball fun, or climb walls or ropes and do much more!

So, you were saying?
IPL 2017 Mohali Matches : Complete Schedule

Cricket lovers out there! IPL 2017 is here! Starting April 5th, get ready to witness 47 days of the crazy cricket fever. IPL 2017 will see a total of 60 matches, amongst 8 teams, at 10 venues! And guess what? (well, you need not guess, it’s a way too obvious), Mohali is one of the venues.

Home to the local team Kings XI Punjab (KXIP), the iconic IS Bindra Cricket Stadium at Mohali is all set to host at least 4 matches of IPL 2017. Here’s the complete Schedule of IPL 2017 Mohali matches, knockout matches and that of KXIP matches.

IPL 2017 Mohali Matches

IS Bindra Stadium, Mohali

April 28, 8:00 pm: KXIP vs SRH, IS Bindra Stadium, Mohali

April 30, 4:00 pm: KXIP vs DD, IS Bindra Stadium, Mohali

May 7, 8:00 pm: KXIP vs GL, IS Bindra Stadium, Mohali

May 9, 8:00 pm: KXIP vs KKR, IS Bindra Stadium, Mohali

IPL 2017 Knockout Matches

May 16, 8:00 pm: Qualifier-1

May 17, 8:00 pm: Eliminator

May 19, 8:00 pm: Qualifier-2

May 21, 8:00 pm: Final, Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium, Hyderabad

IPL 2017 KXIP Matches

April 8, 4:00 pm: KXIP vs RPS, Indore

April 10, 8:00 pm: KXIP vs RCB, Indore

April 13, 8:00 pm: KXIP vs KKR, Kolkata

April 15, 8:00 pm: KXIP vs DD, Delhi

April 17, 8:00 pm: KXIP vs SRH, Hyderabad

April 20, 8:00 pm: KXIP vs MI, Indore

April 23, 4:00 pm: KXIP vs GL, Rajkot

April 28, 8:00 pm: KXIP vs SRH, Mohali

April 30, 4:00 pm: KXIP vs DD, Mohali

May 5, 8:00 pm: KXIP vs Bengaluru

May 7, 8:00 pm: KXIP vs GL, Mohali

May 9, 8:00 pm: KXIP vs KKR, Mohali

May 11, 8:00 pm: KXIP vs MI, Mumbai

May 14, 4:00 pm: KXIP vs RPS, Pune

(Note: Schedule is subject to change)

IPL 2017 Site: http://www.iplt20.com

We have an awesome cricketing culture, our very own team and our very own stadium! So Chandigarhians, brace yourself and head to Mohali this IPL season! Tickets will be available soon. Watch this space for updates.
Musical Nights for Rose Festival 2017 at Leisure Valley Chandigarh

Rose Festival 2017 has started today with the beauty of roses astonishing people. This year the Rose Festival is full packed with surprises. The Festival is having various competitions, helicopter ride, new married couple competition to win a honeymoon package and now Musical Nights for Rose Festival are also organised to luxuriate people to tap their feet.

Society for Tourism & Entertainment promotion in Chandigarh along with Chandigarh Tourism has organised Musical Nights on each day of the 3-day Rose fest. People will be delighted with Punjabi Night for the first two days and the last day will be Bollywood Night of Musical Nights for Rose Festival. Musical Nights for Rose Festival will be the most attracting factor for the visitors. Several different artists will be performing to please the audience.

Artists performing for Musical Nights for Rose Festival

Rose Festival with the blossoming roses is bringing happiness in the city. Rose Festival is an attraction for the people of the city of all backgrounds. The fragrance of the roses will charm people along with the melodious voices of the artists.

First day Musical Night

The very first day of the Rose Festival will be a Punjabi Musical Night with Garry Sandhu. All the Punjabi’s get ready to dance (Bhangra) with Sandhu’s beats.

Second day Musical Night

Second day will be a rocking day with Sukhshinder Shinda. Shinda is a great performer as he indulges the audience and sings accordingly.

Third day Musical Night

Bollywood Night is on for the third day. Adnan Sami will be performing much romantic songs to soothe people with his mesmerising voice.

Other details of Musical Nights for Rose Festival

Date- 17^th-19^th February, 2017

Time- 6:30PM onwards

Venue- Leisure Valley, Sector 10 Chandigarh

Passes- available at Tourist information centre at Garden of Palms, Sukhna Lake, Sector 17 Plaza, Capitol Complex. Passes are available on the basis of first come first serve.

Hurry and get your passes to be on the show and witness the life of music and relish the romantic and dancing numbers at the most amazing Musical Nights for Rose Festival.
Chandigarh is on the radar of Youtube India!

Are you a YouTuber? Are you planning to be one? Most importantly, are you from Chandigarh? If the answer to all these questions is Yes, then I have got some great news for you!

YouTube India has come up with a new campaign. It is called “See Something New from Chandigarh”. The focus of this campaign is to promote and encourage new content creators from the region.

YouTube India

This campaign was launched by Satya Raghavan, Head of Entertainment Content of YouTube India. Talking about the campaign, he said that the reason behind this is the rapid growth of content from the region.

“The Punjabi content is growing at a rapid pace on YouTube, and it especially grew in the year 2016. Earlier, it would be only related to songs, but now the people are coming up with content about food, technology and comedy which is very encouraging,” said Satya Raghavan, Head of Entertainment Content.

Of late, many talented individuals from the city have launched their YouTube channels. Sahil Khattar from Chandigarh hosts a YouTube channel for Being Indian. The channel has a million subscribers and is very popular with the youth. Also available on YouTube are various channels related to cookery, music and fashion.

There are almost 400 million Internet users in India. Further, according to various statistics 55 per cent of this Internet consumption comes by way of smartphones. 220 million users are connected with smartphones for using internet only.

So what are you waiting for? Get that YouTube channel of yours up and running!
Laugh Out Loud with Kenny Sebastian Show in Chandigarh

Kenny Sebastian is coming to the city beautiful for the first time ever in Chandigarh. He is here to make you all giggle out with his satire. Humour is anything that can make anybody happy. Kenny Sebastian Show in Chandigarh will surely chuckle smile on everybody’s face.Don’t miss the show because it’s going to be an epic.

About

Kenny Sebastian was born in a middle-class family and raised in different cities in India. This helped him witness different culture across the country and found its way into comedy. A graduate from an art school, he dabbled in painting, music and filmmaking with an editors credit on a feature film before he found his true calling in the form of stand-up comedy.

Have performed in over 500 shows in the last five years, written and hosted a show on Comedy Central that completed one season and have released four comedy specials online along with India’s first sci-fi comedy web series, Kenny is well on his way to change the face of comedy in India.

Other information for Kenny Sebastian Show in Chandigarh

Date

1^st April 2017

Time

7 PM- 10 PM

Venue

Inderdhanush Auditorium, Panchkula

Passes

Cost- Rs. 499-999

Website: https://insider.in/kenny-sebastian-dont-be-that-guy-april1-2017/event

The stand-up comedian Kenny Sebastian Show in Chandigarh for the very first time to rock the stage. He talks about the middle-class Indian family and makes everybody indulge into his talks. Chandigarhians hurry and grab the passes to enjoy the show on the April fool day.
#Entertainment: Comedian Amit Tandon performs in Chandigarh!

Comedian Amit Tandon recently performed in Chandigarh at the Panjab Arts Council in Sector-16. However, the most surprising part was not a lot of people seemed to know about it. But when you enter the venue you realise that it is simply not true.

The place is thronging with people, mostly newly married couples who are here to see him. Fun fact: Chandigarh is the only city in his current tour that had two shows. One show was at 5 pm and the other at 7 pm. Interestingly, both shows were sold out.

Comedian Amit Tandon

Comedian Parminder Singh was the opening act for Amit Tandon’s show. He took the audience on a ride to his childhood bringing out parallels between his upbringing in Amritsar and his cousin’s in Delhi. He also talked about Panjabi’s fascination with going abroad that left the audience in splits!

And for the act of the evening- Amit Tandon was his usual charming self. His stand up revolved around his married life. Talking about his one wife and two children, he interacts with the audience and you realise that watching videos online does no justice to such artists’ talent. To be there and witness the show live is an experience in itself. The ambience of the place gets so positive that the sounds of laughter become music to your ears.

The audience doesn’t realise that soon the time is up and we have sat through an hour and a half laughing our hearts out. It is time to leave but not without meeting with him first.

He has to get ready for his next show but he is kind enough to come out and talk to you, let you interview him and even take pictures.

So what is one advice he has got out for someone who would like to be a stand-up artist?

“Be yourself. Don’t try to be like Johny Level or someone else. You are unique and that is your USP, cherish that.”
#TCB: Mistakes in Raees you probably missed!

So, I hope you are enjoying your extended weekend. Like many, you must have also enjoyed a movie. After all, it was a Clash of the Titans- Hrithik Roshan’s Kaabil and Shah Rukh Khan’s Raees.

Everybody has their opinions for both the movies. If you are someone who has watched Raees, chances are you probably missed these mistakes in the movie. Surprised? If you think it was a flawless movie, well, hate to break it to you, but that is not true.

So here are some mistakes from the movie listed out for you (WARNING- Spoilers ahead!)-

1. SRK and Mahirah’s child

Remember in the movie, before the interval Mahirah tells SRK about her pregnancy? Well, not exactly tells him but more like a melodramatic “apko koi abba bulaye toh?” dialogue. And after the interval, one year later, their child is born? Wait. What?! That is not what my Eighth standard biology textbook taught me.

2. The “RDX”

After the bomb blasts take place, SRK’s aide tells him that the gold with which it was smuggled carried a new kind of RDX called RDX. WHAAAT? An RDX called RDX? Really? Wasn’t RDX a chemical element’s name? Seems like the whole team of Raees flunked Science together.

3. Musa’s killing or any other action scene for that matter

This problem is not with Raees but probably every Bollywood movie ever. How is it that all your sharp shooters miss their marks while shooting the hero? And on the other hand, the hero can probably get India an Olympic gold in shooting? Whatever happened to the laws of probability? Law of averages? Scientists and mathematicians died for your sins!!

4. The encounter of Raees aka SRK

This is probably the dumbest part of the movie which is sadly also its end. So Nawazuddin Siddique wants to carry out a fake encounter of Raees. He has lost faith in the system and so far and so on. But why did you shoot him in his heart straight away?! Aren’t policemen first meant to shoot on their legs to immobilise the accused on the run? And take them to the hospital and get them to the jail? But no, he just shoots him like 4-5 times on all critical body parts! Dude, you will land in jail instead of Raees!!! So much for being an IPS officer. Meh

Well, that is it I guess. My disappointment with Raees right there- a conceptually good film ruined by poor scripting and execution.
#TCB: Strings n Woods LIVE- Soulful Sunday at Satva

You are with your friends. They ask you to accompany them to Satva for a nice evening. But you are a teetotaler. And you think what is the point?

But then the mind games begin. You are told there is a live band performing. So how do you say no?

This is my story from last Sunday night.

Band ‘Strings N Woods’ performed at Satva

Satva is perhaps one of the oldest night places to hang out in Sector-26, Chandigarh. On Sundays, a local band called Strings N Woods performs. Founded in February 2015, the band performs fairly regularly at various places in Chandigarh and around.

And what can I say? They do complete justice. The band performs a plethora of genres. From Hindi rock to Bollywood to Sufi. You name it and Strings N Woods has got it.

What is most enjoyable is how they link various songs together. Sample this- “Ek ladki bheegi bhaagi si…..ye bhi koi baat hai.”

Their vocalist then says that “baat ye hai ki…” Änd they begin with “baat jo thi ankahi si”

Strings N Woods

It is amazing how they blend their music so well together. From telling a love story that ends in heartbreak by way of Bollywood tracks…the band offers so much to their listeners.

By the end of the evening, you notice that all the band members have untied their hair. Why??? Headbanging, of course! By this time, the crowd is on their feet. Dancing, laughing, enjoying…and you realize you can have so much fun in one evening even while being sober!

Check out the link to their Facebook Page below:

https://www.facebook.com/stringsnwoodsofficial/

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