Masala & Spice Birla Institute of Technology & Science Alumni Magazinee Xoom, President & CEO of Supernatural Paralogic Corp. and also on the Board of Directors at The thriller University at Albany Rudraksh Foundation. ¦ premiers on Alter Ego, October 3 hits New York with Tom BITSian Stoppard's Vaidyanathan joins an increasing number of Indians Indian Ink. producing crossover films in the United States. This first venture produced by Vijay and his wife, Sheena (also a BITSian), and directed by first timer Bala Rajasekharuni, with recognizable Indian American actress, Purva Bedi, and Vikram Dasu, an actor that could pass for a BITSIAN (with kurta, jeans and no money in his In April 2002, a BITSian pocket), the story is a classic one EDC veteran, Anuraag about Murali, who comes to Agarwal, joined hands with 's new America, looking for a way to Bhavna Thakur and other theater generation directors are making get a green card and become an arduous effort of breaking enthusiasts in New York to legal. He becomes a victim of launch AlterEgo productions. away from the song-and-dance corruption, local politics and Almost all founders were desi movies of the 80's and 90's. racism. The movie, which BITSian Chemical Engineer lawyers, doctors, or investment received mixed reviews, bankers that had 9-5 jobs! After Mani Shankar's latest venture, contained excellent successfully presenting Girish Rudraksh, starring Bipasha performances, providing Karnad's Hayavadana at the Basu, , Sunil Shetty romance, comedy and drama. Present Company Theatorium and Isha Koppikar, hovers between science and magic, and Anuvab Pal's Chaos Theory myth and reality. at the Here Arts Center, Alter Masala Ego is now launching its biggest production to date. Rudraksh is an unusual movie with mind-blowing seventy-five & As NYMetro.com aptly put it - minutes of special effects - the most ever seen on Indian "Tom Stoppard's 1995 play Indian Ink hasn't been done in cinema. Its spellbinding Spice narrative promises to keep the New York until now... It is how viewers enthralled till the end. ¦ it's coming to the city has people The performances certainly talking: Usually, Stoppard plays tugged at the heartstrings of debut on Broadway or at Greencard BITSians who could relate to Lincoln Center, but in this case, Fever is their first experiences in the first staging will be in America. Vijay sees NEMI as a Tribeca's little Walkerspace another convergence of his passions for Theater, in the hands of the one- successful Technology and Theater. Vijay year-old company Alter Ego." ¦ crossover was the Chief Strategy Officer of NBC Internet (NBCi), on the film Board of Directors and CTO of

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