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AGARAM Productions is a boutique multi-disciplinary production house specializing in the development and creation of works from New Zealand’s South Asian and diaspora voices. AGARAM Productions is an international production house specializing in the development and creation of new work from New Zealand’s diverse voices and the presentation of these works to and from New Zealand to the world beyon

d. Agaram Productions is committed to supporting and employing local, national and international artists with a point of difference and offering entertainment of the highest quality.

Meet Deepan, the host of ‘Beat by Beat’ A podcast broadcasting from his mom’s garage studio.He will hustle at whatever c...
04/06/2025

Meet Deepan, the host of ‘Beat by Beat’ A podcast broadcasting from his mom’s garage studio.

He will hustle at whatever cost to
get the story that he wants and when he finds his mother, Sangeetha’s, mixtape he unleashes the past that is beyond what is imaginable.

Deepan is played by Sajid Anower
14-15 June.
a mixtape for maladies

This weekend the entire mixtape for maladies team including the actors, musicians and dancers all came together as we st...
02/06/2025

This weekend the entire mixtape for maladies team including the actors, musicians and dancers all came together as we started to put the show together for first two full run stumble through. Featuring a playlist of the best of tamil and hindi music of the yesteryears, a story that traverses multiple timelines and continents and some stunning dancing. A rare event. Show will be performed mostly in English. To book tickets check out the link in bio

Some songs just hit differently! After sweeping and winning audiences over in Auckland, a mixtape for maladies is now co...
31/05/2025

Some songs just hit differently! After sweeping and winning audiences over in Auckland, a mixtape for maladies is now coming to Sydney for two shows only.
Featuring a whole new cast of actors, musicians and dancers. Have you booked your tickets to the show? Booking link in bio

Sydney! a mixtape for maladies, the jukebox musical that swept audiences hearts in Aotearoa is having a two shows only s...
14/05/2025

Sydney! a mixtape for maladies, the jukebox musical that swept audiences hearts in Aotearoa is having a two shows only season in Sydney featuring an ensemble of actors and musicians all from Sydney. Described as ‘unmissable’ a must see’ ‘ close to a masterpiece’ , This love letter of a show is a partnership between Prekshaa Arts and Culture and Signature Group. Please let your Sydney contacts about the show. Ticket links in bio.

A bowl of saltless Kanji fed tens of thousands but many never even got a taste. Starved, bombed, and forgotten by the wo...
13/05/2025

A bowl of saltless Kanji fed tens of thousands but many never even got a taste. Starved, bombed, and forgotten by the world, they stood in line with the faintest hope. On May 18, we remember not just the genocide - but the hunger, the silence, and the sacrifice. Mullivaikal Kanji is not food. It is memory.
It is resistance.

Check out our pal and collaborator last seen in be:longing with their latest call out for 🥳 aka the Pan-Asian Comedy ...
03/04/2025

Check out our pal and collaborator last seen in be:longing with their latest call out for 🥳 aka the Pan-Asian Comedy School Aotearoa.

✔️With max class size of 5 students, you’ll get bespoke hands-on teaching and advice from award-winning comedian and comedy TV writer 🎤

🗓️Starting 27 May and running for eight weeks, you’ll have six sessions with your classmates PLUS a 1:1 writing session with Jess!

🙋🏽‍♂️🙋🏻‍♀️Previous participants have gone on to perform at RAW comedy quest and at the Asian Comedy Takeover at and as part of the 😍

😮No previous stage experience is necessary - sign up today and make 2025 the year you conquer your fears! 👏🏽
register before May 7 ✨

🧡Thanks to funders and supporters

Our wonderful family have a fabulous new show and a wonderful community initiative. Five Legendary Black Creatives. Fiv...
03/04/2025

Our wonderful family have a fabulous new show and a wonderful community initiative. Five Legendary Black Creatives. Five Inspiring Workshops. An Unmissable Experience.

Join BCA from 8–12 April for a series of powerful 1-hour workshops, running from 6:30 PM – 7:30 PM each evening. The workshops include exciting topics like music production, crafting body products and money tips for creatives and MANY MORE, these sessions are designed to ignite your creativity and fuel your passions.

Follow BCA as they reveal their incredible lineup of legends you won’t want to miss this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity!

Sign up now via the link in the comment section.

a mixtape for maladies B:Side And that's a wrap, and what a ride it has been! As we close off this epic mahi, here is a ...
29/03/2025

a mixtape for maladies
B:Side

And that's a wrap, and what a ride it has been!

As we close off this epic mahi, here is a look at the B: Side of the mixtape!

🎵 Anubhavam pudhumai - Watching Kadhalikka Neramillai (There Is No Time to Love), Suthan deciphers the song’s hidden meanings, each man hoping the other will confess—just like the film’s lovers or the forbidden pair in the play. The melody feels familiar because it was inspired by Bésame Mucho.

🎵 Chinna Maamiye - Nithi Kanagarathnam’s ‘Chinna Maamiye' was composed in the mid-1960s, and the singer put it to the test during a cricket match in Jaffna. A Tamil song set to racy Baila music was greeted with enthusiasm and this cult classic anthem was created. Nithi’s songs were satires or questioned society in a comical and ironic way.

🎵 Eternal Flame - The music is a stylistic fusion of the Byrds and the Beatles and who can forget the bridge of the song? A dramatic bridge that takes the song to a wonderfully emotional place, and adds to the overall dynamics of the song and the scene.

🎵 Ilaya Nila - The love affair between Ilaiyarajs (the composer) and the acoustic guitar has been an eternal one in tamil film music. The song Ilaya Nila features in the film Payanangal mudivathilai (Journeys never end).

🎵 Kathal Oviyam - An amazing achievement and a game changer of the times in terms of musical production, arrangement and sheer musical brilliance on display. what makes this composition stand out and sound fresh every time you listen to it is the melody, the use of l complex beats that peps up the song, the choir and the breezy, dreamy way in which Raaja and Jency render this song. The song exudes romance at its best – innocent, warm and fun.

🎵 Kuyile Kuyile - This song is a rumination on the idea of loss. Sung by dynamic duo of the 80s tamil film music S Janaki and SP Balasubramaniam.
The composer uses various woodwind instruments to recreate bird calls and sounds throughout the song.

The remaining songs in the comments.

Thank you to all of our audiences and collaborators who came on this journey with us.

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a mixtape for maladies A:Side Here is little peak into the choice of songs, and why he was influenced to evoke them, str...
21/03/2025

a mixtape for maladies
A:Side

Here is little peak into the choice of songs, and why he was influenced to evoke them, straight from the Playwright!

🎵 Chinna Pennanaa Pothile – a song about future possibilities and what the world may become of. There is an innocence to this song and it’s been remade into so many languages and there was no question that this song would bookend the show

🎵 Dingiri Dingale – part philosophical musing and part political satire.
sometimes ignorance indeed is bliss. This song beautifully captures the sense of changing times and uncertainty lingering in the background.

🎵 Eena Meena Deeka – This song made up of gibberish and non sensual words is just pure joy. The arrangement, the instrumentation, it’s just hands a classic. I love how this song transports you to a time and place of the past.

🎵 Andru Vanthathum – it’s impossible not to be charmed by this song. The piano intro and the chords that follow is classic MSV stuff and the cha cha cha chorus all adds to a delightfully beautiful love song.

🎵 La Bamba – I don’t know why Ls Bamba became the rage in Sri Lanka so much so that one of our famous bands in Sri Lanka is called The La Bambas.This song was perhaps a generation's anthem.

🎵 Pukarta Chala Hoon Main – The chord progression of this song is sublime. I never understood the lyrics but the melody would make me feel things. emotional things as a kid. Mohammad Rafi voice is like a tonic for the heart and he just elevates this song.

🎵 Unnidam Mayangukiren – This song is an easter egg. It features in the play Tea as well which is part of the Home/ Memory play trilogy of which mixtape is the final instalment.

🎵 Malarnthum Malaraatha – This song is now Canon. Beautiful composition. for those who understand tamil there is also beautiful but if prose in there too which loosely translates to This earth, sea, and sky, though they may disappear and end. It is not possible to forget that memory is central to our our show, so when i heard this lyric i knew it had to be in it

What track were you most excited to hear or are looking forward to? Let us know in the comments! ⬇️

AND stay tuned for B:Side of the mixtape!

a mixtape for maladies Previews start tonight!Seventeen tracks on an old mixtape reveal bittersweet memories of a family...
04/03/2025

a mixtape for maladies
Previews start tonight!

Seventeen tracks on an old mixtape reveal bittersweet memories of a family’s resilience behind every song.

In a small coastal village in Sri Lanka, Sangeetha’s life is filled with music. Songs are the glue that binds her family together. And she has a crush on the guy at the general store who plays all the latest hits.

But, as the country slips into civil war, they find themselves caught on the wrong side of history. “I had only ever heard the sounds of gunshots in movies,“ she remembers. “This one was different.“

This compelling story sweeps from 1950s’ Sri Lanka to modern-day Aotearoa, where Sangeetha is now living with a son of her own, Deepan. The only remnant of Sangeetha’s past is an old mixtape filled with memories. As Deepan plays the 17 songs one by one – La Bamba, the hit single from a Tamil rom-com – the story of what happened to their family unfolds through the music until its unforgettable conclusion.

Both a love letter to his homeland and a lament, this powerful new work by Ahilan Karunaharan is the final chapter in his epic trilogy which began with TEA, continued with The Mourning After and now concludes with a mixtape for maladies.

More information & tickets from
https://www.atc.co.nz/

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