Poetry on The Big Mic Hosted by Ramya Pandyan

Big Mic invites you to yet another night of razzle dazzle poetic pertinence. Bring your finest verse in any language! Our host for tonight is Idea Smith and our illustrious featured poet is Dan Husain! Danish Husain is a poet, actor (Losing Gemma, Peepli Live, Dhobi Ghat, Ankhon Dekhi, Welcome To Karachi, City of Dark, Alif, Mantra), filmmaker (Live from Peepli documentary), theatre director (Krapp's Last Tape, Chinese Coffee, Ek Punjab Ye Bhi, Qissebaazi, Guards at the Taj), one of the people who helped revive the lost art form of Urdu storytelling, Dastangoi, a columnist with India Today opinion site Daily O. He runs his own theatre company called The Hoshruba Repertory which premiered its new play Guards At The Taj that opened the prestigious AADYAM Theatre Festival Season- 3. His ongoing and upcoming projects include two indie movies Bazaar and Newton; a multi-lingual theatrical storytelling project Qissebaazi; a multilingual poetry performance Poetrification with Denzil Smith; and a sitcom with Zee Network called Bin Kuchh Kahe. He won the META for Best Supporting Actor in 2008, and Ustad Bismillah Khan Yuva Puruskar from Sangeet Natak Akademi in 2010. This evening is themed Poetic Storytelling. Danish will share some of his writing in this realm. Feel free to bring along your stories-in-poetry too, or even just any other of your original poetry.