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Title:  The Red Scarf Duration:  12 min 31 sec Uploaded: January 7,  2015 Love, friendship, betrayal and a red scarf.  ' The Red Scarf' is a story of deceit and betrayal in human relationships where nothing is what it seems and it is difficult to figure out the truth in the maze of lies. What role does an innocent red scarf play in all this?   Set in the modern times where three office colleagues meet over drinks on an ordinary evening, this movie is sure to appeal to the urban working men of the corporate world. Director:  Mayank Singh Writer:  Tanuj Khosla Editor:  Silky Agarwal Cast:  Setu Upadhyay, Vikram Sharma, Nitish Kumar, Silky Agarwal

Genre: Suspense, Thriller Duration: 80 minutes Staged: May 17, 2014 Venue: Mysore Auditorium, Matunga "Intruders in Darwin's Nest"  is a suspense thriller set in an isolated shack off the road from a National Highway.  On the night of their bank robbery of seven crore rupees, four robbers take shelter in the shack  unbeknownst  of what would befall them.  Between greed and  power, opportunism and trust  they are forced to fight among themselves. Partnerships give way to mayhem and the unexpected happens.  The play forces you to rethink the rules of fitness for survival.  Are not we all in a Darwins Nest of sorts?  But what if we all kept operating by the very rule of survival which didn't apply anymore! Directed by: Mayank Singh Written By: Kamil Kosambia Cast: Mayank Singh, Kamil Kosambia, Silky Agarwal, Nitish Kumar, Abhaya Mishra, Sarang Seksaria Facebook Event Page Event Gallery On Mumbai Theatre Guide

Genre:   Surreal, Absurd, Thriller, Suspense Duration:  55 minutes Staged:  June 8, 2013 Venue:  Sathaye Auditorium,Ville Parle Ashima Theatre Group’s second performance on stage was DAS TREFFEN, named after the German word for 'The Meeting'.  Inspired by the ‘Trip’, this thriller revolved around the weird and unpredictable circumstances faced by three hitman who gather in a dilapidated  house to plot the killing of the target. But as luck would have it, there turns out to be something else in store for them in that house. As the events unfold, their friendship is set to a difficult test from which they hardly recover. Caught between real and unreal, truth and falsehood, the three friends end up becoming each others' enemy. They never get a chance  to understand what really transpired –a bolt from their past or their bad karma which followed them unforgivingly.   The play ends in mysterious circumstances leaving the conclusion and the interpr

Genre:  Comedy, Satire Duration: 75 mins Staged: June 8, 2013 Venue: Sathaye Auditorium, Ville Parle Ashima Theatre Group’s  first ever production, Taghayyur, was a satirical play on the man-animal relationship.  The play was one of its kind to reverse  the direction of domination that exists between the mankind and the animal kingdom. Taghayyur as a word means “kayakalp” or thing upside down.  The play thus rightly expressed, how the world would turn out to be when the perpetrator became a victim. With the comic angle  to the concept, the performances were replete with animal impersonations. Supported by PETA , the play touched upon the unfairness  and injustice to animals. The play started with blessing to a harried goat of one day of supreme power over human kingdom, after which the animals united in a celebration to take their revenge against human beings.  A court was set up by them and what happened next was an entertaining performance wh