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Today, all-round filmmaker Josef von Sternberg (1894-1969) is best remembered as the man behind UFA’s first talking picture, “Der Blaue Engel” (1930, a.k.a. “The Blue Angel”), which launched the career of Marlene Dietrich. She played Lola-Lola, the seductive cabaret singer in top hat and silk stockings, who destroyed the life of an infatuated elderly professor, character played by Emil Jannings. The film was simultaneously shot in Berlin in German and English versions.

By that time, however, Mr. von Sternberg, who left his native Vienna at age seven, arrived in the U.S. in 1901, and had settled in Hollywood by 1924. He was already an established film director in America ever since he had made “The Salvation Hunters” (1925), the first time he demonstrated his own, groundbreaking and unique visual style and interplay of light and shade. The film was followed by another screen classic, “Underworld” (1926), Hollywood’s first gangster film.

Unfortunately, some projects didn’t work out for various reasons—one of them being “The Sea Gull” (1926, a.k.a. “A Woman of the Sea”) which Charlie Chaplin asked him to direct as a comeback vehicle for Edna Purviance (Chaplin’s co-star in all his shorts and features from “A Night Out” in 1915 to “A Woman of Paris” eight years later). Mr. von Sternberg’s screenplay was a love story set in a fishing community on the California coast. After one private screening, Chaplin withdrew the film, shelved it, and it hasn’t been seen since, reportedly because he considered the film too sophisticated for general audiences.

Yet, for Mr. von Sternberg, the best was yet to come. During his peak years and most productive period of his career—at Paramount—from “Underworld” (1927) to “The Devil Is a Woman” (1935, the seventh and final film he made with Dietrich, whom he had transformed into a glamourous and sensual star), he became one of Hollywood’s greatest directors, storytellers, masters and technicians with screen classics as “The Case

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Mentored by star music composer Sandeep Chowta, Karma6 is an assembly of ’s finest musical talents. Chowta endured a 5-hour-long wait inside the plane on the tarmac of Mumbai airport to reach just in time to introduce his band, which has Alwyn Fernandes and Tony Das on guitars, K.N. Prakash on bass, Tillu on the drums, Karan Joseph on keyboards and vocalist Mark Lazaro.

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Even as the rain swirled outside, Karma6's high energy performance had the packed audience foot-tapping and soon breaking out into exuberant dance to classic covers. From Queen’s ‘Too much love will kill you’ and Van Halen’s ‘Jump’ to John Mayer’s ‘Belief’ and Steely Dan’s 'Bodhisattva', Karma6 delighted the audience, which insisted on several encores.

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