Comedy to Broadway: Here's how you can make the most of your time in Mumbai

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Khoop funny

In Marathi Mulga, Pranit More's Marathi standup show, the comedian dissects life, society, and the idiosyncrasies of existence from a purely Maharashtrian point of view.
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WHEN: August 26, 6 PM
WHERE: The Habitat, Khar
PRICE: R299 onwards
TO BOOK: bookmy show.com

West Side Story

One of Broadway's most popular and award-winning plays, the coming-of-age drama about American street and gang culture in the 1950s, will now be performed in Mumbai.
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WHEN: August 16 to 26, 2.30 PM and 7.30 PM
WHERE: NMACC, Bandra
PRICE: R1,400 onwards
TO BOOK: nmacc.com

A snapshot of Sushen Ghosh

Project 88 is hosting a retrospective of reclusive sculptor Sushen Ghosh's works. These pieces have been picked out from the last five decades of the artist's oeuvre and feature smaller, more intimate works.
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WHEN: August 10 - September 2
WHERE: Project 88, Colaba

Roll, please

The Mumbai Playbackers are conducting a three-hour crash course workshop on playback theatre, a form of Improv.
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WHEN: September 10, 10 AM
WHERE: Ba Dum Tish, Andheri
PRICE: R950
TO BOOK: insider.in

Meet a person with a skill you can use

Akshita Nagpal, 32 online Urdu teacher
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AVAILABLE FOR: Learning basics of Urdu through movie dialogues, songs and poetry
Charges: Rs 4,000
CONTACT: zabaaneurdu@gmail.com

Cooped up at home in 2020 like all of us, Akshita Nagpal found herself reading Urdu books and poetry. Nagpal, whose grandparents migrated to India during the Partition, could already speak and write Urdu. "After I lost my grandparents, this beautiful language left my life too." says Nagpal. She decided to learn Urdu and put up a post on Instagram asking if anyone was interested in learning it too. Requests poured in and she created the basic course - Shuruat-e-Urdu - that takes nine weeks and covers vocabulary, pronunciation and writing. She does this in a fun way by using famous movie dialogues, songs and poetry. The classes are conducted over Google Meet and the next batch starts on August 16.

RECOMMENDED BY: Tabinda Usmani, 33, Media and Content Manager, Sharjah, UAE "Shuruat-e-Urdu was the course I needed to refresh and brush up on my mother tongue. The course was very well designed to help people understand the basics of Urdu with fun facts added to make it interesting."