Seema Anand Storytelling: The 3000 step stories Seema Anand Storytelling

Chhota Shakeel, right hand man to the notorious gangster Dawood Ibrahim was reputed to have had many girlfriends. But none of his love affairs were quite what you would expect them be.
On the run from India, living in Pakistan, running a gang in Mumbai, he chooses his girlfriends for very specific purposes….

कुख्यात गैंगस्टर दाऊद इब्राहिम का ख़ास आदमी छोटा शकील अपने कई गुज़रे हुए प्रेम प्रसंगों के लिए प्रतिष्ठित था। लेकिन उसका प्रेमिकाएँ चुनने का अंदाज़ निराला था।
भारत से भागकर पाकिस्तान में रहते हुए मुंबई में गैंग चलाने का काम कर रहा था और गर्लफ्रेंड का चुनाव भी विशिष्ट उद्देश्यों के लिए ही करना पड़ता….
इस कहानी की गर्लफ्रेंड कौन थी? चलिये सुनते हैं

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If you walk into any government office anywhere around the world you will always find a framed photo of a national leader. Well - if you were to walk into any brothel in the Mumbai red light district you will find, in every room a framed photo of a woman - an elderly, grey haired woman in a white sari edged with a gold border. No, she is not a saint. This was Gangubai, one of the most powerful madams in her time. But why, 50 years after her death, does every Mumabi sex worker have Gangubai’s photo in her room?
Disclaimer: one scene of violence with adult themes
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Script by Yasser Usman @yasser.usman
Music by Merlin D’Souza @musicbymerlin
Artwork by @rsdcreative
Supported by ECDP @essexcdp and Active Essex @active_essex

“Deception is a necessary skill of state craft”, said the guru to the young princes, his students, “but for it to be successful it has to be practiced as an art form, it must be planned such that not even God knows what you are doing.” Surely all is fair in love and war. And after all what could go wrong! A wonderful old story from the Hitupdesh, a 2nd century text written to teach young princes how to rule a kingdom both in times of war and in times of peace.
This story has been adapted from "The Blue Lotus", an anthology of Indian myths, published by Aleph India.
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Music by Merlin D’Souza @musicbymerlin
Supported by ECDP @essexcdp
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Artwork by @rsdcreative

The gods and demons churn the ocean for the nectar of immortality, a potion that will give them everlasting life and superhuman strength. They churn together in a spirit of collaboration but each is determined to cheat the other out of their share of the nectar and keep it just for themselves. This is a story that goes back to the beginning of time and yet it is a story that could have happened yesterday - depictions, power struggles, promises made and broken and the ongoing struggle for survival in the face of all odds. The samudra manthan is originally told in the Srimad Bhagwatam and is the most famous of the Hindu creation stories.
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Music by Merlin D’Souza @musicbymerlin
Supported by ECDP @essexcdp
Supported by Active Essex @active_essex
Artwork by @rsdcreative

“If you must breathe to stay alive then Ashwin to me is like breath. I don’t need food or water to survive, just the beautiful memories of our time together. I can happily live on that.” That was Nita Naik, in an interview to journalist Hussain zaidi, in 1997, declaring her deep and undying love for her fugitive gangster husband Ashwin Naik. Exactly 3 years later she was gunned down, in broad daylight, outside her house, on his orders.

Where did it all go wrong?

A blood stained tale of the Mumbai underworld, of a woman, a gangster and destiny.

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Script by Yasser Usman @yasser.usman 

Music by Merlin D’Souza @musicbymerlin

Supported by ECDP @essexcdp

Supported by Active Essex @active_essex

Artwork by @rsdcreative

Possibly the strangest story I’ve ever heard and I can promise you it will definitely be the strangest that you have ever come across. This is one of the a “rescued” story from an ancient Sanskrit compendium of the love stories of Ariel spirits known as the Brihad Katha or the library of romances and it is a tale of love lost, love cheated on and love regained - all on the power of a determined wife’s vomit.

No more clues - the rest you shall hear!

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Music by Merlin D’Souza @musicbymerlin

Supported by ECDP @essexcdp

Supported by Active Essex @active_essex

Artwork by @rsdcreative