4- 8th Annual ERASING BORDERS 2011: CONTEMPORARY ART FROM THE INDIAN DIASPORA. Opening Reception - April 26, 6:30 pm, Charles B. Wang Center

US PREMIERE of [UTF-8?]Disneyā€™s First Live Action Indian film
Opening Night
Habib [UTF-8?]Faisalā€™s
“Do Dooni Chaar”

Starring Rishi Kapoor, Neetu Singh Kapoor

Directed by Habib Faisal
India, 2010, 120 Minutes , Hindi (with English subtitles), US Premiere.

Life is tough for Mr. Duggal who works at school as a Math teacher, lives in a government allocated two room apartment in Delhi and is coping with double digit inflation rates and single digit increments in his salary. Add to that, a teenage daughter with high living ambitions, a fast-track son and a wife who loves the good life. The life in the Duggals household passes by in care of the basics and surviving from month to month. Until one day, they decide to dream to own a car and move up in life from a two –wheeler to a four-wheeler. A dream that’s not easy by any stretch of imagination for the single income family. Mr. Duggal however, has made up his mind - and his male ego will not let him change his promise to his family. What follows is a comic journey of chaos, realizations, calculations, confrontations and bonding. Join the journey that will drive them, and you, pretty much nuts.

Habib Faisal is a successful Indian director and screenwriter. He has co-written Siddharth Anand's ‘Salaam Namaste.’ He has also written director Shaad Ali's ‘Jhoom Barabar Jhoom’ starring Abhishek Bachchan and Preity Zinta, and Siddharth Anand's ‘Ta Ra Rum Pum’ starring Saif Ali Khan and Rani Mukherjee. He also wrote the screenplay and dialogues for the acclaimed December 2010 film ‘Band Baaja Baaraat.’ He has directed several television serials for ZeeTv and worked with New Delhi Television as a camera person.

Habib was brought up in Delhi, and is an alumnus of the Kirori Mal College and MCRC Jamia Millia. He lives in Mumbai with his wife Shahla and daughter Sheena.

CREW:
Director:	Habib Faisal.
Produced by:	Arindam Chaudhuri.
Story:	Habib Faisal.
Screenplay & Dialogues:	Habib Faisal and Rahil Qaazi.
Music Directors:	Meet Brothers and Anjan

OPENING NIGHT GALA CELEBRATIONS:
NEW YORK INDIAN FILM FESTIVAL MAY 4, 2011

Tickets on sale now

Opening Night NYIFF:
Paris Theatre & Essex House, NYC
US Premiere of Disney’s first live action Indian film followed by a Gala Benefit dinner!

6 pm	Red carpet at Paris Theatre
7 pm	Welcome - Aroon Shivdasani, IAAC Executive & Artistic Director Opening Address - Ambassador Meera Shankar Introduction Jason Reed, Disney Executive VP/GM International Productions Screening of Habib Faisal’s “ Do Dooni Chaar”. Starring Rishi Kapoor, Neetu Singh Kapoor Post-screening discussion with Director and cast moderated by Aseem Chhabra, Film Festival Director
9:30 pm	Gala Benefit Dinner at Jumeirah Essex House

Individual Tickets:

$500 red carpet screening, post-screening discussion w/Director & cast, and Gala Benefit dinner

$150 screening and post-screening discussion w/Director & cast.

Tables of 10: Reserved seating (Red carpet screening, discusson & Gala Benefit dinner)
Emerald Table of 10	$25,000	($23,000 tax deductible)
Ruby Table of 10	$20,000	($18,000 tax deductible)
Sapphire Table of 10	$15,000	($13,000 tax deductible)
Diamond Table of 10	$10,000	($8,000 tax deductible)
Friendship Table of 10	$5,000	($3,000 tax deductible)

Please send ticket/table request details(# of tickets, table denomination, return address) with your cheque to:

Indo-American Arts Council,
517East 87th St., Suite 1B,
New York, NY 10128.
Phone: 212 594 3685.

INDO AMERICAN ARTS COUNCIL
presents
IAAC ERASING BORDERS 2011 EXHIBITION OF CONTEMPORARY INDIAN ART OF THE DIASPORA

OPENING RECEPTION: April 26th, 2011

Curated by Vijay Kumar

IAAC Director of Exhibitions: Tanu Jindal

Opening Reception with Dance Peformances
April 26, 6:30 pm, Charles B. Wang Center

[UTF-8?]Artistsā€™ Panel
April 26, 4:30, Lecture Hall 1

The opening reception for the exhibition features two newly commissioned dance works performed by Stony Brook University students and faculty: Amy Yopp [UTF-8?]Sullivanā€™s Sensorium, in which dancers discover and delight in the new and different in an ethereal dance journey through the artworks;

and Malini [UTF-8?]Srinivasanā€™s Stealing the [UTF-8?]Queenā€™s Royal Jelly, which responds to Reet [UTF-8?]Dasā€™s painting of the same name by enacting the imagined lives of bees as they collect honey and build a hive.

The reception is preceded by an interactive [UTF-8?]artistsā€™ panel, which foreground discussions of the creative process and the experience of diaspora.

Erasing Borders is a richly provocative exhibition by artists of the Indian diaspora who confront issues of sexuality, terror, disease, the environment, racial and sectarian politics in painting, prints, installations, video, and sculpture. With great technical mastery and diversity of theme and style, these works combine traditional Indian aesthetics with Western elements, and speak to the powerful experience of personal and cultural dislocation in the global village. In its eighth year, Erasing Borders is curated by Vijay Kumar and produced by the Indo-American Arts Council. Free and open to the public.

Participating Artists: (Click on the artists name for details):
Fasihu Ahsan, Mohammed Bari, Samanta Batra Mehta, Fareen Butt,
Amita Chatterjee, Sonia Chaudhary, Nandini Chirimar,
Neil Chowdhury, Uday K Dhar, Reet Das, Delna Dastur,
Anjali Deshmukh, Anujan Ezhikode, Aaliyah Gupta, Mansoora Hassan, Mumtaz Hu ssain, Tehniyet Hussain, Samina Iqbal,
Nidhi Jalan, Sunita Jariwala-Gajjar, Reeta Gidwani - Karmarkar, Kulvinder Kaur Dhew, Aamir Khan Tarin, Srinivas Krishna,
Shaurya Kumar, Shobha Menon, Rahul Mitra, Indrani Nayar-Gall, Kuzana Ogg, Avani Patel, Minna Philips, Antonio Puri, Talha Rathore, Rasika Reddy, Sangeeta Reddy, Pinku Roy-Bari, Tara Sabharwal, Satyakam Saha, Pallavi Sharma, Sara Suleman, Roshani Thakore , MD Tokon, Prince Varughese Thomas