INDO-AMERICAN ARTS COUNCIL with Bitiya in association presents:
Girsh Karnad’s
BROKEN IMAGES

Starring:
Shabana Azmi 
Friday, October 8, 8.30 pm.
Skirball Center for the Performing Arts,
New York University 566, LaGuardia Place
(at Washington Square South), New York, NY 10012

Cast and Crew: Starring Shabana Azmi
Written By: Girish Karnad
Directed By: Alyque Padamsee
Produced by: Raell Padamsee

To purchase tickets: Online: http://skirballcenter.nyu.edu/calendar/broken_images
By Phone: 212-352-3101 or 866-811-4111
In Person: 566 Laguardia Place, Tues-Sat 12noon-6pm
IAAC members discount code:B03IAAC
Premium $150 (includes post performance dinner with the cast) $100, $75, $55, $35

Shabana Azmi

Satyajit Ray, the noted film maker, says in his book, “Our Films Their Films”, “Shabana Azmi in her very first film, ‘ANKUR’ , firmly establishes herself as the finest dramatic actress of the country.”

Apart from being a highly respected actress, Shabana Azmi is also a committed social activist. As chairperson of NIVARA HAKK, she undertook a 5 day hunger strike in May 1986 for slum dwellers in Bombay and was successful in obtaining land for displaced slum dwellers. On 1st May 2007, Niwara Hakk handed over 4184 tenements free of cost to slum dwellers evicted from the Borivli National Park. By December 2007, 12000 tenements will be handed over. This makes it the largest single rehabilitation project in all of Asia.

Alongwith Swami Agnivesh and Asghar Ali Engineer, she undertook a 4-day march for communal harmony from DELHI to MEERUT in April, 1989. She has also participated in several street plays and demonstrations against the rising wave of communalism. In the aftermath of the Babri Masjid Demolition, she along with activists of NIVARA HAKK, helped to diffuse tension in several slums. To their credit, NIVARA HAKK did not have a single incident of violence whilst the city was ablaze