Although it’s the tail end of July, the events for this month aren’t over yet.  CitySaheli found two great things to do in New York City we wouldn’t want our Sahelis to miss!

Celebrate Brooklyn! Presents MI21: Mother India 21st Century Remix
Come to Prospect Park tonight to check out MI21.  MI21 is a dynamic audio/visual re-scoring and re-visualizing of the profoundly influential Mother India (1957), the first Bollywood film to be nominated for an Academy Award (Best Foreign Language Film) and a piece of cinema history that came to symbolize the post-colonial Indian psyche. MI21 re-imagines the three-hour epic into an impressionistic  60 minutes of arresting imagery with a live score by DJ Tigerstyle, who is accompanied by strings, keyboards, and percussion.

The evening will kick off with a performance by Falu, the “indie Hindi,” who trained under the legendary vocalist Ustad Sultan Khan in Bombay and brazenly mashes up rock, funk, Bollywood and purely Indian classical music.

When: Today, July 29th
8pm
Where:  Prospect Park, Brooklyn

$3 suggested donation. At the Bandshell.

STRINGS Live – At Le Poisson Rouge
Ariz presents STRINGS live in concert this weekend.  With over 5 albums to their credit, they have toured all over the world and collaborated with some of the best in Film music, they are critically acclaimed Pakistani Pop band, Strings. They have numerous awards to their credit including “Best Band Award” – MTV Music Awards 2009, “Best Live act in Music” – Lux Style Awards, 2008 amongst others.

The opening act will be performed by SA-RE-GA-MA finalist Jeffry Iqbal.

When: Saturday, July 31st
7pm

Where: Le Poisson Rouge
158 Bleecker Street
New York, NY

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