It’s really hard in the world we live in to embrace anything else but being smiling and happy. But, in reality, we are human. We experience all kinds of emotion and the best way ‘to be’ in our reality is to ‘embrace’.

After all, only if you experience the sweet sadness of longing can you experience the joy of hope, love and happiness.

It is an attempt to make the viewer forget the world outside and deep dive in the various emotions which come with melancholia. In the mood for Melancholia is a 3 hour curated evening featuring live performances by an ensemble of artists.

Curated to the smallest detail, this performance promises to be exceptionally entertaining and like nothing you’ve seen before.

Artists who are outstanding at their craft, will combine their talent into exquisite new art forms; merging poetry and music, kalaripayattu with swords and thumri, sand painting and singing, experimental film, ghazals, and a host of short independent pieces.

Line-up:

Precious - live painting by Harsh Raman

Melancholy Restored - Ghazals by Namit Das with Kenny & Manasi

First Fireworks - a play featuring Manasi Parekh and Meenal Patel

Amrita Pritam's "main tenu phir milangi" - recited by Sankalp Rawal

Sung Sand Art Stories - performed by Debjani Mukherjee accompanied by Shayok Banerjee

And sometimes she loved me too - an experimental short film by Karan Talwar

"Longing" on the Sarod - a classical piece by Hriday Desai

"Loss" a theatrical reading by Satchit Puranik

Murakami's Sleep - performed bySheeba Chaddha

Yaad piya ki aaye - A kalaraipayattu sword fusion dance and thumri by

Mini Museum of Ordinary Objects curated by Tram Arts Trust + Extension Arts

About Harkat Studios

Harkat Studios is a film production company, a co-working space and an alternative performance space, all rolled into one, with a presence in Mumbai, New Delhi and Berlin. It’s housed in a quaint bungalow in Aram Nagar in Versova, surrounded by trees and has a living room style design. Harkat regularly hosts experiences in its space, in an effort to try and make this world a little better of a place to tolerate.