GURUGRAM: For 3 days, from March nine to 11, the second season of the Delhi Theatre Festival promises to regale theatre fans across the NCR.
Best of all, Gurugrammers don’t have to challenge out in their city, with 3 plays being hosted by means of Orana Conventions, in Sector 64.
So, right here’s what Gurugram audiences can expect. Pankaj Kapur is going solo for his one-act play ‘Dopehri’, which is drama at its maximum unconventional, and likewise at its maximum emotionally stirring. Naseeruddin, Heeba and Ratna Pathak Shah, too, shall be gracing Gurugram, to degree their powerful ‘Ismat Apa Ke Naam’, as will Paresh Rawal, within the thought-provoking ‘Kishan Vs Kanhaiya’.
Dopehri (March nine) is Delhi thespian and writer Pankaj Kapur’s magnum opus. Based on a novella by means of Kapur, ‘Dopehri’ deals with the melancholia of old age in an empathetic and regularly humourous method. It’s the tale of Amma bi, a widow who lives by myself in a Lucknow haveli. She is consumed by means of loneliness but still, somehow, unearths the power to embark on a adventure of self-discovery. In its masterful delineation of persona and emotion, ‘Dopehri’ is as humanistic a work of theatre as you’ll ever see.
Ismat Apa Ke Naam (March 10) is a production from Motley, the Mumbai theatre troupe based by means of (among others) Naseeruddin Shah, within the past due 1970s. It is the theatre group’s debut tryst with an Indian language. The ‘Ismat’ within the identify is, of course, Ismat Khanam Chughtai (1911-1991), the firebrand author whose paintings took no prisoners, and whose pursuit of the truth rubbed a fair few up the unsuitable method.
Kishan Vs Kanhaiya (March 11), meanwhile, is a play about a non-believer’s wrangle with god. Kishanlal Mehta loses his antiques trade following an earthquake, but he cannot declare insurance coverage because it was a herbal crisis – an act of god. So, he makes a decision to document a case towards god (Krishna, the ‘Kanhaiya’ within the identify). It’s a play that’s absorbing and funny, and likewise miserable and unhappy.
Tickets start from Rs 1,000, and can also be bought on www.bookmyshow.com. All the presentations start at 7 pm.
Best of all, Gurugrammers don’t have to challenge out in their city, with 3 plays being hosted by means of Orana Conventions, in Sector 64.
So, right here’s what Gurugram audiences can expect. Pankaj Kapur is going solo for his one-act play ‘Dopehri’, which is drama at its maximum unconventional, and likewise at its maximum emotionally stirring. Naseeruddin, Heeba and Ratna Pathak Shah, too, shall be gracing Gurugram, to degree their powerful ‘Ismat Apa Ke Naam’, as will Paresh Rawal, within the thought-provoking ‘Kishan Vs Kanhaiya’.
Dopehri (March nine) is Delhi thespian and writer Pankaj Kapur’s magnum opus. Based on a novella by means of Kapur, ‘Dopehri’ deals with the melancholia of old age in an empathetic and regularly humourous method. It’s the tale of Amma bi, a widow who lives by myself in a Lucknow haveli. She is consumed by means of loneliness but still, somehow, unearths the power to embark on a adventure of self-discovery. In its masterful delineation of persona and emotion, ‘Dopehri’ is as humanistic a work of theatre as you’ll ever see.
Ismat Apa Ke Naam (March 10) is a production from Motley, the Mumbai theatre troupe based by means of (among others) Naseeruddin Shah, within the past due 1970s. It is the theatre group’s debut tryst with an Indian language. The ‘Ismat’ within the identify is, of course, Ismat Khanam Chughtai (1911-1991), the firebrand author whose paintings took no prisoners, and whose pursuit of the truth rubbed a fair few up the unsuitable method.
Kishan Vs Kanhaiya (March 11), meanwhile, is a play about a non-believer’s wrangle with god. Kishanlal Mehta loses his antiques trade following an earthquake, but he cannot declare insurance coverage because it was a herbal crisis – an act of god. So, he makes a decision to document a case towards god (Krishna, the ‘Kanhaiya’ within the identify). It’s a play that’s absorbing and funny, and likewise miserable and unhappy.
Tickets start from Rs 1,000, and can also be bought on www.bookmyshow.com. All the presentations start at 7 pm.
Naseer, Ratna to enthral city’s theatre buffs this weekend
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Reviewed by Kailash
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March 07, 2018
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