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<span style="letter-spacing: -0.12px;"><b> 'Ramkali</b>' </span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: -0.12px;">Playwright: Bertolt Brecht</span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: -0.12px;">Adaptation of 'The Good Person of Szechwan', </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: -0.12px;">hindi adaptation by Amitabh Srivastava, </span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: -0.12px;">lyrics: Piyush Mishra.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: -0.12px;">Music : Dr Sangeeta Gaur.</span><br />
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15th August,7pm- Swadesh Deepak's Court-Martial,</div>
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16th August,7pm- Rajesh Kumar 's play Ambedkar aur Gandhi ,<br />
1<span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.38;">7th August,7pm- Bertolt Brecht's play in hindi-'Ramkali', </span></div>
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adaptation by Amitabh Srivastava ,Lyrics By Piyush Mishra, Music by Dr Sangeeta Gaur .</div>
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venue-Sri Ram Centre,Mandi House, </div>
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Asmita Summer Theatre Festival 2014 at Sri Ram Centre,Mandi House,Amphi Theatre,Hndia Habitat Centre, lodhi road & Mukta Dhara auditorium,18th May to 20th July <br />
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!8th May- Ye Aadmi ye Choohe by John Steinbeck<br />
hindi Adaptation by Devendra Raj Ankur and Virendra Saxena<br />
at Sri Ram Centre,Mandi House at 7pm <br />
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23th May-Dus Kahaniyaan<br />
by Asmita Weekend theatre group at 7pm at Muktadhara Auditorium,Banga Sanskriti Bhawan,plot no-18 & 19, Bhai Veer Singh Marg, Gole Market, Connaught Place, New Delhi.<br />
Entry free.<br />
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24th & 25th May 2014 at IHC at 7.30pm<br />
Satirical play 'Operation Three Star' on 24th & 25th May at IHC,directed by Arvind Gaur,Hindi adaptation of Dario Fo's Satirical-comic play ,Adaptaion in hindi by Amitabh Srivastava,Lyrics-Piyush Mishra.<br />
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30th May-Tere Mere Uske Kisse <br />
at 7pm at Muktadhara Auditorium,Banga Sanskriti Bhawan,plot no-18 & 19, Bhai Veer Singh Marg, Gole Market, Connaught Place, New Delhi.<br />
Entry free.<br />
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31st may & 1st June at IHC ,7.30pm<br />
Moteram ka Satyagraha on 31st may & 1st June '2014 at 7.30pm at Amphi Theatre,india habitat Centre,lodhi road, Musical satire-Based on Munshi Premchand’s story, adaptation by Habib Tanveer and Safdar Hashmi,directed by Arvind Gaur<br />
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6th June-GP Deshpande 's play Raastey <br />
at 7pm at Muktadhara Auditorium,Banga Sanskriti Bhawan,plot no-18 & 19, Bhai Veer Singh Marg, Gole Market, Connaught Place, New Delhi.<br />
Entry free.<br />
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7th & 8th June at IHC,Amphi Theatre<br />
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Dario Fo's Comic-Satire play 'Chukayenge Nahi' on 7th & 8th June at IHC,Amphi Theatre,hindi adaptation by Amitabh Srivastava, Directed by Arvind Gaur.<br />
Actors- Shilpi Marwaha, Palak Bhutani , Himanshu Maggo, Gaurav Mishra, Mannu Choudhary Suraj Singh, Rahul Khanna,Ishwak Singh, Manoj Yadav,Shiv kanungo,Kunal Sharma, Nishra Jindal , Abhishek Pandey and others..<br />
Ticket:- 50/-.<br />
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13th June-Partition,based on Manto's stories <br />
at 7pm at Muktadhara Auditorium,Banga Sanskriti Bhawan,plot no-18 & 19, Bhai Veer Singh Marg, Gole Market, Connaught Place, New Delhi.<br />
Entry free.<br />
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14th & 15th June 2014 at 7.30pm at India Habitat Centre,<br />
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Swadesh Deepak's play COURT-MARTIAL on 14th &15th June 2014 at 7.30pm at India Habitat Centre,Lodhi road ,directed by Arvind Gaur.,Actors- Bajrang Bali Singh,Gaurav Mishra, Rahul Khanna,Himanshu Maggo,Suraj Singh,Ishwak Singh,Mannu Chaudhary,Shiv Kanungo,Abhishek Pandey, Palak Bhutani, Kunal Sharma,Pankaj Datta,Manoj Yadav,Nisha Jindal,sachin Saxsena,Ashish Sejwal , Shubham, Prabhakar Pandey,Prashant Pundir,Gaurav Magoo, and Others...<br />
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21st & 22nd June at 7.30pm<br />
Mahesh Dattani's final solutions at Amphi Theatre,india habitat Centre,lodhi road<br />
translation by Shahid Anwar <br />
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28th June at 7.30pm <br />
play -Log Baag at Amphi Theatre,india habitat Centre,lodhi road<br />
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29th June,7pm at SRC<br />
rajesh Kumar's Ambedkar Aur Gandhi <br />
Asmita Theatre Group presents Rajesh Kumar's hard hitting play-"Ambedkar Aur Gandhi" on 29th June 2014 at 7pm at Sri Ram Centre,Safdar Hashmi Marg,Mandi House.Actors-BajrangBali Singh,Gaurav Mishr, Rahul Khanna ,Palak Bhutani, Himanshu Maggo,Suraj Singh, Shiv Chauhan,Mannu Choudhary,Ishwak Singh,Kakoli Gaur,Kunal Sharma,Saveree Gaur,Abhisek Pandey,Nisha Jindal, Shelpi Marwh, Manoj Yadav,Shiv Kanungo,Asish Sejwal,Pankaj Datta,Rohit Vaid,Prasant pundir,Subham Srivastava,Prabhakar Pandey,Smita Mishra,Prasant Dubey,Devinder Bist,Kajal Badana..<br />
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6th July at Sri ram Centre, Mandi House at 7pm <br />
Ashok Lal's Ek Mamooli aadmi at 7pm <br />
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12th July at SRC at 7pm <br />
Ye Aadmi ye Choohe by John Steinbeck<br />
hindi Adaptation by Devendra Raj Ankur and Virendra Saxena<br />
at Sri Ram Centre <br />
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13th July -Ramkali<br />
Bertolt Brecht's hindi adaptation-Ramkali<br />
at 7pm at Sri ram Centre, Mandi House ,<br />
Adaptation by <a href="https://www.facebook.com/amitabhsrivastav">Amitabh Srivastava</a><br />
music by Dr Sangeeta Gaur<br />
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18th July<br />
Raag Virag play based on Shri Lal shukla's novel,script by Rabindra Tripathy <br />
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19th July-<br />
Tere Mere Uske Kisse <br />
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20th July<br />
Rajesh Kumar 's play Trial of Error<br />
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all shows at 7pm at Muktadhara Auditorium,Banga Sanskriti Bhawan,plot no-18 & 19, Bhai Veer Singh Marg, Gole Market, Connaught Place, New Delhi.<br />
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For any Enquiry plz Contact:, Arvind gaur-09899650509<br />
Book your Tickets online@ Bookmyshow.com<br />
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Theatre Group Celebrates 20th Year of Socio-Political Relevant Theatre.<br />
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<b>About the play </b>When respect is denied to a man for the only reason that he is borne by 'low-caste' parents, the offence cannot simply be termed as a social violence. It assumes larger proportions of crime against humanity and society at large. Yet by the turn in situation the murderer becomes a win...ner whereas the victim is unforgiving.The culprit may receive severe punishment at the hands of the law but, in fact, it is the society which is put in the docks. Court Martial, written by Swadesh Deepak, is a story of recruit Ram Chander who is tried for murdering one of his officers and injuring another.<br />
The Court Martial is presided by a war veteran. Col Surat Singh who has witnessed many 'life –and –death' situation. But this trial puts him in a queer position, so far unknown to him, and during the course of interrogation he realize that the issues at stake are much larger than what meets the eye. Realizing that the Indian army is the only government agency in which reservation on caste basis is not permissible. Court Martial presents a combination of legal and poetic justice.</div>
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Actors-BajrangBali Singh,Shiv Chauhan,Gaurav Mishra,Rahul Khanna,Himanshu Maggo,Suraj Singh,Ishwak Singh,Mannu Chaudhary,Manoj Yadav,Abhishek Pandey, Palak Bhutani,Vivek sharma,Nisha,Ashish,Kunal Sharma,Shiv Kanungo,Shubham, Praveen,Devendar Bisht, Pandey,Prashant Pundir, and Others...<br />
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"Not Just a Play: ‘Court Martial’ is not just a play written by Swadesh Deepak, directed by Arvind Gaur & enacted by Asmita-artistes. It is a burning truth of the Indian Society. Sensing that Indian Army is the only government institution, which does not permit caste-based reservations, ‘Court Martial’ presents a mixture of natural and legal justice, which is not only the truth of the Indian Army, but that of the whole Indian Society. That, despite all his qualifications, an individual is traumatised because of his low-caste origins is not merely social violence, but a crime against humanity. The monotony of the long court-trial was pre-empted by the seasoned performance of the Asmita artistes. This Asmita-presentation has proved to be a soothing experience, after many years, for Swadesh Deepak who created a countrywide flutter through this play. "Excellent acting, live and memorable…..worth visit.<br />
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Tight pace of Swadesh Deepak's Court Martial... not to be missed.<br />
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Excellent Performance ...Swadesh Deepak's brilliant script... memorable production by the Asmita team and Arvind Gaur.<br />
-- Romesh Chandra, The Hindu<br />
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Gaur’s hard hitting realism…..His infinitely intelligent approach….strong play.<br />
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Kudos to Court Martial….a drama that went beyond the limits of drama .<br />
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The Asmita team has created a marvelous piece of theatre out of a wonderful script….don’t miss it. The times spent watching it is well worth it.<br />
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Stealing scenes with revolt as the theme ….Court Martial was an engrossing display of theatre for social awareness.<br />
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The workshop culminates in a public production </div>
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Saturday and Sunday (9am to 1pm) </div>
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">theatre, arvind gaur, rashi bunny ,indian theatre,lushin dubey, girish karnad, mahesh dattani,delhi theatre, bitter chocolate, theatre workshop, india habitat centre </div>Asmita Theatre Grouphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08413867792575306783noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12717381.post-8539653724216220772013-05-27T16:24:00.002-07:002018-08-29T11:53:32.501-07:00Asmita Theatre Group Theatre Festival 2013 at Sri Ram Centre,India Habitat Centre & Lok kala Manch,Delhi<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Partition,</div>
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<b><u>12th May</u></b><br />
Dario Fo's play at SRC,Mandi House<br />
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Chukayenge Nahi' ,hindi adaptation of "Can't pay won't pay" </div>
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CourtMartial<br />
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<b><u>25th May</u></b></div>
G P Deshpande's play 'RAASTE",Translation in Hindi by Jyoti Subhash,directed by Arvind Gaur on 25th may at Lok kala manch Lodhi Road,near Sai Baba mandir.Entry open for all<br />
<b><u>26th May</u></b><br />
Log-Baag,based on Anton Chekav's stories,script by Neil Simon<br />
at Lok kala manch Lodhi Road,near Sai Baba mandir<br />
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Dario Fo's Comic-Satire play 'Chukayenge Nahi' ,<br />
hindi adaptation of "Can't pay won't pay" by Amitabh Srivastava,<br />
directed by Arvind Gaur<br />
on 1st and 2nd June 2013 at 7:30 pm<br />
at Amphitheatre,India Habitat Centre, Lodhi road.<br />
<b><u>8th &9th</u></b><b><u> June </u></b><br />
Moteram ka Satyagraha<br />
on 8th & 9th June at IHC at 7:30pm.<br />
Asmita Theatre Group presents Musical satire-Based on Munshi Premchand’s story,“MOTERAM KA SATYAGRAH” Adaptation by Habib Tanveer and Safdar Hashmi,directed by Arvind Gaur<br />
at India Habitat Centre,Lodhi Road<br />
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<b><u>15th &16th June</u></b><br />
at India Habitat Centre,Lodhi Road at 7:30pm<br />
<span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;">Dario Fo's Comic-Satire <br />"OPERATION THREE STAR"<br />(Adaptaion of Dario Fo's Accidental Death of an Anarchist )<br />directed by Arvind Gaur<br />adaptaion by Amitabh Srivastava,<br />Lyrics By Piyush Mishra</span><br />
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Mahesh Dattani's<br />
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Translated by Shahid Anwar<br />
music-Dr Sangeeta Gaur,<br />
Actors- Susan Brar,Palak Bhutani, Gaurav Mishra,Rahul Khanna, Himanshu Maggo, Kakoli Gaur,Suraj Singh,Saveree Gaur,Nisha Jindal,Mannu Choudhary,Ishwak Singh,Shiv Chauhan,Manoj Yadav,Abhisek Pandey ,Kunal sharma,praveen Kumar,manoj singh,Vivek sharma, Rohit vaid,Shiv Kanungo,Devinder Singh Bist,prasant pundir,Prasant Dubey,Devesh kr,Shubham srivastava,Asish Sejwal,Bijay,Prabhakar pandey,Rahul malhotra,Saurabh Aggarwal,Tarun Gupta ..</div>
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<b><u>29th June </u></b><br />
Log-Baag,based on Anton Chekav's stories,script by Neil Simon<br />
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Ashok Lal's Ek Mamooli Aadmi</div>
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<b><u>14th July at Src at 7pm</u></b></div>
Ramkali" </div>
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Music by Dr.Sangeeta Gaur,14th July , 7:00pm </div>
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About play Ramkali-...<br />
It raises core issues facing today’s world, of greed versus common good, of the value of right and wrong, of the pressures society puts on people which drive them to committing wrongs to keep up with expectations, the exploitation of goodness and of good people by an aspiring society, and the question of equating theft and wrong doing out of need with that done out of greed. <br />
It is said that between the battle of wrong and right, it is truth that wins, yet ladies and gentlemen, the truth in this play is yet to be discovered… so if you think it has been some time since you’ve done a good deed, think again… maybe not. May be we all have been Ramkali, doing “the right thing’ in the wrong place or vice versa ! Still having second thoughts? <br />
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- To those born later<br />
You who will emerge from the flood <br />
Which we have gone under. <br />
Remember When you speak of our failings <br />
The dark time too Which you have escaped. <br />
For we went, changing countries oftener than our shoes<br />
Through the wars of the classes, despairing <br />
When there was injustice only, <br />
and no rebellion. <br />
Think of us… <br />
- Brecht<br />
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">theatre, arvind gaur, rashi bunny ,indian theatre,lushin dubey, girish karnad, mahesh dattani,delhi theatre, bitter chocolate, theatre workshop, india habitat centre </div>Asmita Theatre Grouphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08413867792575306783noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12717381.post-26029978692751002882012-06-14T17:26:00.002-07:002012-06-14T17:26:42.291-07:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 12px;">Rajesh Kumar's play-</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 12px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 12px;">Ambedkar Aur Gandhi </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 12px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 12px;">directed by Arvind Gaur</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 12px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 12px;">on 28th jan 2012 at 6.30 pm</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 12px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 12px;">LTG audi,Mandi House</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 12px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 12px;">Natsamrat Theatre Festival</span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">theatre, arvind gaur, rashi bunny ,indian theatre,lushin dubey, girish karnad, mahesh dattani,delhi theatre, bitter chocolate, theatre workshop, india habitat centre </div>Asmita Theatre Grouphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08413867792575306783noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12717381.post-67481250185103736062012-06-14T17:19:00.001-07:002012-06-14T17:25:29.212-07:00UNSUNI,play at The Millennium School, Noida on 25th January 2012,based on Harsh Mander’s book Unheard Voices,Scripted by Mallika Sarabhai<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="background-color: white;">UNSUNI,play at The Millennium School, Noida on 25th January 2012,based on Harsh Mander’s book Unheard Voices,Scripted by Mallika Sarabhai,Directed by Arvind Gaur<br />About The Play- Unsuni is a socially relevant and politically deep script by Mallika Sarabhai, based on the Novel "Unheard Voices" by Harsh Mander. In a Society where the success of a handful makes bigger news than the misery of millions, a set of 5 monologues dares to speak out for the mute, the desolate, the chronically ignored a woefully unloved India,full of People but starved of life.<br />Unsuni lifts the veil around harsh realities faced by the diversity afflicted people of our country. Street urchins abandoned by society to fend for themselves in the face of adversity; tribal people forced to surrender their honour to repacious land grabbers; scavengers and lepers who have never known the meaning of human dignity are some specific problems addressed by the play. The volatile nature of religious politics coupled with an incompetent judicial structure is also portrayed with grave honesty. In the depiction of all these causes is a common underlying plea for us to open our eyes to the bigger picture, to share that human worth which we for ourselves claim as a right, but deprive others of without justification.<br />The play overall is an intense reminder of horrors towards which we voluntarily turn a deaf ear. It does not aim to downplay the success of those who do make it to the top, but is a call to the privileged to consider those who deserve equal rights, but lack equal opportunity.</span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">theatre, arvind gaur, rashi bunny ,indian theatre,lushin dubey, girish karnad, mahesh dattani,delhi theatre, bitter chocolate, theatre workshop, india habitat centre </div>Asmita Theatre Grouphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08413867792575306783noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12717381.post-7219906355626953832012-06-14T17:01:00.004-07:002012-06-14T17:14:36.946-07:00Rajesh Kumar's play"THE LAST SALUTE" in Mumbai on 20th January directed by Arvind Gaur<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Mahesh Bhatt presents Rajesh Kumar's play"THE LAST SALUTE" in Mumbai on 20th January 2012 directed by Arvind Gaur, Based on Muntadhr Alzaydi's Book"The last salute to President Bush"starring Imran Zahid at Tejpal Hall,Tejpal Rd, Cumballa Hill, GovaliaTank, Mumbai. For tickets pls call-Viren Basoya-09769694807 or log on<a href="http://www.bookmyshow.com/">www.bookmyshow.com</a><br /><br />About The Play-"The Last Salute" -One of the defining political acts of time is coming to Mumbai in a Mahesh Bhatt, Promodome Films & Asmita Theatre Group Production Directed by Arvind Gaur,written by Rajesh Kumar starring Imran Zahid.Music By Dr. Sangeeta Gaur.<br />Actors-Viren Basoya,Malay Garg,Shilpi Marwaha,Rahul Khanna,Shiv Chauhan,Gaurav Mishra,Ishwak Singh,Suraj Singh,Himanshu Maggo,Saurabh Pal,Punkaj Datta,Palak Bhutani,Mannu Chaudhary,Abhisek Pandey,Sachin Sexena,Smita Lal,Rohit Vaid,Tarun Kr,Vartika Tiwari,Amit Dahiya,Anamika Singh,Manoj Yadav,Kakoli Gaur,Mayank Pandey,Saveree Gaur,Pradip Awasthi, Priyanshu,Praveen kr,Asish Sejwal,Rahul Srivastava,Kunal Sharma,Vivek Sharma,Rahul Malohtra,Naman,Tushar vij,Bijya Jha,Devesh kumar,Prabhakar Pandey,Puja tyagi,Nisha Jindal,Hargun, Sarthak,Rinki Negi,Geet Gera,Neetu Narayan,Vimal Shah,Raje<br />The play explores facts of the gulf crisis and the US intervention which has been questioned by the civilized world time and again. The play is expected to attract the elite audience which is interested in global issues like this one. It explores emotions, talks about world peace and political orders of the day effect the common man. presented by Mahesh Bhatt and promodome films. For More Information Visit<a href="http://thelastsalute.com/">http://thelastsalute.com/</a><br /><br />Reviews:<br />Director Arvind Gaur relies on simplicity to deliver his message…music by sangeeta Gaur beautifully woven in the script.this is a play that wakes you up to the reality…the narrative explores the rising anger,,,the play brought forward the importance of role of media in the society…relevant videos of Shoe Throwing Incident transitions between scenes..one of the poignant scenes where 8 reporters recollect the atrocities they witnessed.<br />-Rohini Kejriwal,Coverage of The Last Salute (Delhi and Kolkata)<br /><br />The farewell kiss from the Iraqi people -The play has truthfully captured the important part of US atrocities on Iraqi people. The scene of eight-year-old Zahra who was brutally killed by US forces made me cry. Even the scene of the hospital after bombardment where hundreds were shown screaming for help moved my heart. While watching the play i felt that everything was happening again, all the incidents that led up to my doing what i did… performance throughout the play was very sincere…the voice of dissent,oppressed people can stand up, can fight against atrocities… My protest was made because the media, especially the free media of the free world, i mean the western media in particular, reported that the people of Iraq welcomed US forces with flowers… "throwing shoes is better than throwing bombs"...“I am not a Hero; I am a Man in Search of freedom.”<br />Muntadhar Al Zaidi’s Intv by TOI<br /><br />The last salute -A play inspired by one of the most jarring moments in world politics.<br />-NDTV India<br />IRAQI SHOE THROWER IN DELHI<br />-Piyali Dasgupta<br /><br />SHOE-THROWER’S A FOLLOWER OF GANDHI! <br />About the moment that made him famous, al-Zaidi smiled and said haltingly, “I have been a staunch follower of Gandhiji. Main India ka shukriya karna chahta hun ki mujhe aap logon ne yahaan bulaya aur itna respect diya. I’m happy that my message will now reach more people (through this play). It was a wonderful experience.” <br />-Delhi Times <br /><br />Such shoe sha!- A SALUTE FOR LUCKNOW!!<br />If anything, the play proved to be a testimony that theatre has arrived in Lucknow. And if there’s a good theatre production, audiences will turn up in large numbers. Not surprisingly, the auditorium was filled to capacity…. rousing songs by Faiz interspersed the proceedings…continuous audio-visuals- interesting…<br />Anjali Chandra <br /><br />All you need is himmat… Scenes of former US president George W. Bush’s war on terror in Iraq and the suffering of the common man thereof, came alive onstage on Sunday with Mahesh Bhatt’s play, “The Last Salute”…. The song sequences of the play touched a chord with the audience and so did certain scenes which had them break out in applause…. The scenes of US drones bombing Iraqi cities causing widespread death and destruction hit the audience hard and one was heard saying, “I can hardly stop myself from crying. What untold sufferings people have faced for this war.” <br />Dibyajyoti Chaudhuri <br />The Times Of India Kolkata<br /><br />Muntadhar-Al-Zaidi is a hero<br />Iraqi journalist Muntadhar al-Zaidi, who pioneered a new way of protest by hurling a shoe at US President George Bush, was in the city to watch a play which depicted his life, before and after the incident that changed his life completely.<br />-Swati Trivedi,NewsX<br /><br />Al-Zaidi with Pooja Bhatt and Dino Morea gave a standing ovation to the play and hugged Imran Zahid after the completion of the play, saying "Thank You" … moved by people's response to the play.<br />Parmita Uniyal, Hindustan Times<br />New Delhi, May 16, 2011<br /><br />The red Lettered Salute..The play was well received by Chandigarh Audience,…the city will be treated to more such intellectual Delights…<br />-Jaspreet,TOI Chandigarh<br /><br />अस्मिता का सैल्यूट है मुन्तजिर को article by विकाश प्रयास बडथ्वाल -<br />फैज़ अहमद फैज़ की नज़म " हम देखेंगे लाजिम है की हम भी देखेंगे..." इस नज़्म का नाटक में होना ही इस नाटक की गंभीरता को दर्शाता है ! हमेशा की तरह और अरविन्...द जी के हर नाटक की तरह इसमें भी गीतों का अपना ही महत्त्व रहा... डॉ. संगीता का सराहनीय प्रयास! एक इराकी क्रातिकारी की कहानी को हिंदी नाटक में दर्शाना इतना आसान भी नहीं हो सकता जिता... की अरविन्द जी ने बनाया है... राजेश जी के कायल तो हम आंबेडकर और गाँधी से ही हो गए थे !अरविन्द जी ने मुन्तजिर अल जैदी को आज का भगत सिंह कहा तो कोई अतिश्योक्ति नहीं लगी... मैंने भगत सिंह को देखा नहीं सिर्फ सुना है... कल का नाटक देख कर मुझे भी ये अहसास हुआ की क्यूँ भगत सिंह और उनके साथियों ने असेम्बली में बम्ब फेंका और वो भी किसी को नुकसान पहुंचाए बिना ...मुन्तजिर का सलाम भी कुछ इसी तरह का था ....इराक का भगत सिंह .... सही कहा जाये तो ये नाटक अस्मिता का सैल्यूट है मुन्तजिर को जिन्होंने की दुनिया की सबसे बड़ी ताकत कहलाये जाने वाले अमेरिका को जूता मारकर हिला दिया....<br /><br />सूत्रधार विरेन बसोया हमेशा की तरह असरदार और अपनी आवाज़ से सब को बांधे हुए रहे..इमरान ने "रामकली" के शब्बीर मियां के किरदार से निकलकर शांत मुन्तजिर को क्रन्तिकारी मुन्तजिर तक बखूबी निभाया !महेश भट्ट साहब का नाटक की शुरुआत करना शानदार अनुभव रहा.. उनकी उपस्थिति ने ये भी दर्शाया की ये विषय कोई साधारण नहीं है....!विडियो क्लिपिंग को प्रयोग कर नाटक को और असरदार बनाया गया ताकि हर कोई विषय परिस्थिति को समझ सके....पहली बार ऐसा प्रयोग देखने को मिला.....दर्शको से सवाल जवाब ने तो और भी उत्सुकता भर दी ...और सबसे अहम् मुन्तजिर की उपस्थिति...उनको देखके कोई नहीं कह सकता की ये वही महानायक है जिसने महाशक्ति कहे जाने वाले देश को जूता दे मारा था...शांत और हंसमुख !<br /><br />About Mahesh Bhatt :<br /><br />Mahesh Bhatt (born on 20 September 1948), is a prominent Indian film director, producer and screenwriter.<br />Bhatt's early directional career consisted of acclaimed films, such as Arth, Saaransh, Janam, Naam and Zakhm. He was later the writer of numerous commercial films in a range of film genres, from dramas like Hum Hain Rahi Pyar Ke and comedies like Duplicate, though he was mostly recognised for thrillers like Inteha, Jism, Murder and Woh Lamhe. Bhatt began his career as an assistant to Hindi director Raj Khosla. At age 21 he made his debut as a director, with the film Sakat (1970),<br /><br />[2] this was followed by Manzilein Aur Bhi Hainin 1974. His 1979 film, Lahu Ke Do Rang, starring Shabana Azmi and Vinod Khanna, bagged two Filmfare Awards in 1980.<br /><br />[3] Though his first major hit came with Arth (1982), when he turned to his personal life for inspiration. Later, he made many more films taking insights from his personal life, where he highlighted personal narratives, ranging from illegitimate birth to extramarital affair and created critically acclaimed films such as Janam (1985) and Naam (1986).<br /><br />A stand-out film from his earlier period is Saaransh (1984), an exploration of an old couple's anxieties in a universe governed by arbitrary violence, and dramatic films like Kaash (1987), which dealt with real-life family situations with a tragic end.<br /><br />In 1987 he turned producer, when he set up his own banner Vishesh Films, with his brother Mukesh Bhatt. He went on to become one of the most recognised film directors of the Indian film industry in the coming decade, giving both serious films like Daddy (1989), launching his daughter Pooja Bhatt as a film actress, and Swayam (1991); as well as commercial romantic hits like Awaargi (1990), Aashiqui (1990) and Dil Hai Ki Manta Nahin (1991), in which he cast his daughter Pooja with actor Aamir Khan. He next directed Sadak (1991) and won critical acclaim for the films Sir (1993), which saw Pooja Bhatt acting along with Naseeruddin Shah and Criminal (1994). In 1994 he won the National Film Award - Special Jury Award for his film,Hum Hain Rahi Pyar Ke (1993)<br /><br />In 1995 he moved to television, then a newly opening up medium in India. He made two TV series, the English language "A Mouthful of Sky" written by Ashok Banker and the popular Hindi language serial "Swabhimaan" scripted by writer Shobha De. Following this, he directed drama films like Dastak (1996), the debut film of actress Sushmita Sen, and Tamanna (1997), and tried his hand at comedy with Duplicate in 1998.<br />His film, Zakhm (1998), was returned to the censor board because of right-wing pressure critical of its references to the Mumbai riots of 1993.<br /><br />His last film as director was Kartoos (1999). Thereafter, Bhatt retired a director, and took to screenwriting full-time, churning out stories and screenplays for over twenty films, many of which were box-office successes, like Dushman, Raaz, Murder (2004), Gangster (2006) and lastly Woh Lamhe (2006), based on the life of actress Parveen Babi, and on whom he has also scripted the 1982 film Arth<br /><br />PRODUCER NOTE<br />We live in a propaganda culture where factual information is routinely censored. This is the basis of our current Truth Emergency- a lack of purity in news. What threatens us most is our ignorance about what is going on in the world around us. The corporate media especially in the news departments,misinform, disinform, and propagandize the public into misguided rages against the wrong enemies.<br /><br />The Last Salute will bring you face to face with the 'real enemy' of humanity who has been masquerading as an angel of peace . It will hurl you into life an extraordinary brave person who had the audacity to dare the worst tyrant of recent times George W Bush.<br /><br />About Arvind Gaur<br />Arvind Gaur is known for his work in innovative, socially and politically relevant theatre. Gaur's plays are contemporary and thought-provoking, connecting intimate personal spheres of existence to larger social political issues. His work deals with communalism , caste issues, feudalism, domestic violence ,crimes of state, Politics of power, violence, injustice, social discrimination social, marginalization, and racism. Arvind is the leader of Asmita, Delhi s "most prolific theatre group", and is also an actor trainer, social activist , street theatre worker and story teller. Gaur was the recipient of a research fellowship awarded by the Ministry of Human Resource Development (India) (1997–98). He was on the guest faculty of Delhi University for Theatre in education program for three years. He has conducted many theatre workshops and performed in various colleges, institutions, universities and schools in India and abroad.<br /><br />About Promodome Films<br />Envisioning success is one thing, realizing it is another. Over the last ten years, Promodome Communications has been scaling new heights and setting new bench marks in creative excellence. Promodome films is yet another big leap in to the future, with a dream of making meaningful, entertaining and touching films. Our first production – ‘Jugaad’ starring Manoj Bajpai & Hrishita Bhatt, Vijay Raaz, Sanjay Mishra, Govind Namdeo and others, was released worldwide to critical acclaim. There’s another film titled Naughty@Forty, starring Govinda, Aysha Takia, Anupam Kher and other being directed by Jag Mohan Mundra. 60 percent of this film has already been shot in London, and the next schedule is set to start soon in Haridwar in 2010. Apart from these, there are four other big budget films in the scripting phase. Promodome films are all set ti initiate a journey of prowess and cinematic brilliance. <br /><br />ABOUT ASMITA THEATRE GROUP<br /><br />ASMITA, one of the leading Hindi theatre groups in the country stands committed to aesthetically innovative and socially relevant theatre. Since its inception in 1993, ASMITA has carved a niche for itself in the Indian theatre scene by staging plays of varied socio-political interest while not losing out mass appeal. The group takes up contemporary issues to underline the contours of our time while providing the best of entertainment.<br />SOCIO-POLITICAL ISSUES:<br />The group has 62 productions to its credit and on an average has been performing for about 60 nights a year. All these plays have been directed by ASMITA's Resident Director Arvind Gaur. For ASMITA, theatre has a purpose of awakening the audience to contemporary issues and creating a dialogue on prevailing social problems. Asmita Theatre group is also involved in street Theatre Movement. Group has performed dozens of street plays on different Socio-political issues.<br />THEATRE FESTIVALS & COLLABORATIONS:<br />ASMITA has performed in all major theatre festivals of India and abroad including International Solo Theatre Festival- Armenia, International Theatre Festival, Nizhnevartovsk-Russia, International Theatre festival- France, National School of Drama Festival (Bharat Rang Mahotsava), Sangeet Natak Akademi, Sahitya Kala Parishad, Darpana Academy of Performing Art’s festival (Ahmedabad), Delhi International Arts Festival 2007, Nandikar National festival, Vivachana Theatre Festival, Old World Theatre Festival, Times Festival, Muktibodh Natya Samaroh, World Social Forum and Nehru Centre Festival- Mumbai.ASMITA has also staged various plays in collaboration with organizations like Abhinay Theatre-Sydney, Theatre World, UNODC, British Council -Chennai, IHC, Katha, Association of British Scholars-Delhi, Paridhi, 2nd Foundation, Lakshya(KNC), Bahroop, Banjara Theatre-IIT Kharagpur, India International Centre, Rainbow Cavaliers, M.Dot Band -Jaipur, Vivechana -Jabalpur, Zenith, Prithvi Theatre Festival (platform theatre IHC, 2004) and NGO's like Mobile Creches, Action-Aid, Haq, PCVC, Deepalaya, Heinrich Boll Foundation, Times Foundation, Aalo-a ray of hope, Asian Social Forum, Centre of Civil Society (Jeevika festival)Youth reach and World Social Forum.<br />THEATRE WORKSHOPS:<br />In the past 15 years, Asmita has conducted many theatre workshops and performed in various Universities, Colleges,Schools and Institutions in India such as Jawaharlal Nehru University,IIT-Delhi, AIIMS,School of Planning and Architecture, Gargi , Hindu, Lady Sri Ram, Kamla Nehru, Aditi, Kirori Mal, SSN, Deshbundu and IP colleges, Mother International, DPS, Sahyadri School, J.Krishnamurti Foundation and India Habitat Centre, IILM, Lok Kala Manch etc.<br />MAJOR PRODUCTIONS:<br />Group’s major production’s are Bhisma Sahani’s-Hanoosh, Girish Karnad's-Tuglaq and Rakt Kalyan, Dharamveer Bharti's- Andha Yug, Swadesh Deepak's-Court Martial(450 shows), G P Deshpande's-Antim Divas, Albert Camu's-Caligula, Mahesh Dattani's- Final Solutions,Tara & 30 Days in September, Eugene O’Neill 's- Desire Under the Elms, Dario Fo's-An Accidental Death of an Anarchist, Dr.Narenda Mohan's- Kalandar, Bertolt Brecht's-Good Woman of Setzuan and Caucasian Chalk Circle, Samuel Beckett's-Waiting For Godot, John Octanasek's- Romeo Juliet and the Darkness, Neil Simon's-The good Doctor, Vijay Tendulkar's-Ghasiram Kotwal, Mote Ram ka Satyagrah based on Munshi Premchand's story and adaptation by Habib Tanveer and Safdar Hashmi , Ashok Lal's- Ek Mamooli Aadmi, Rajesh Kumar's- Me Gandhi Bolto, Vijay Mishra's-Tatt Niranjana, Doodnath Singh's- Yama Gatha, Uday Prakash's-Warren Hastings ka Saand, Shourya Nidhi 's- Kunti-Putra Karan (Sydney) & Harsh Mandar’s Unsuni that has been scripted by Mallika Sarabhai.<br />SOLO PERFORMANCES:<br />Director Arvind Gaur has collaborated with various Theatre artists and Groups specially in exploring a new language for Solo performances which includes Dario fo's Story of the Tiger by Jaimini Kumar Srivastava, Women in Black by Bubbles Sabharwal, Madhavi & Hidden Fires by Rashi Bunny, Untitled & Bitter Chocolate by Lushin Dubey, Gandhari by Aishveryaa Nidhi, 4.84 Psychosis & A woman alone by Ruth Sheard.<br /><br />Imran Zahid<br />Imran Zahid is a theatre person and upcoming Bollywood actor, owns a media school in Delhi and has been extremely close to Mahesh Bhatt’s circle for many years. Zahid plays slain JNU student leader Chandrashekhar Prasad in the in Mahesh Bhatt next much talked about movie "CHANDU" <br /><br />Muntazer Al Zaidi<br />Muntadhar al-Zaidi is an Iraqi broadcast journalist who served as a correspondent for Iraqi-owned, Egyptian-based Al-Bagh. As of February 2011, al-Zaidi works with a Lebanese TV channel. On November 16, 2007, al-Zaidi was kidnapped by unknown assailants in Baghdad. He was also previously twice arrested by the United States armed forces. On December 14, 2008, al-Zaidi shouted "This is a farewell kiss from the Iraqi people, you dog" and threw his shoes at then-U.S. president George W. Bush during a Baghdad press conference. Al-Zaidi suffered injuries as he was taken into custody and some sources said he was tortured during his initial detention. There were calls throughout the Middle East to place the shoes in an Iraqi museum,[4] but the shoes were later destroyed by American and Iraqi security forces. Al-Zaidi's shoeing inspired many similar incidents of political protest around the world.<br /><br />Following the incident, Al-Zaidi was "embraced around the Arab world and was represented by the head of the Iraqi Bar Association at trial.On February 20, 2009, al-Zaidi received a 90-minute trial by the Central Criminal Court of Iraq.[On March 12, 2009, he was sentenced to three years in prison for assaulting a foreign head of state during an official visit. On April 7 the sentence was reduced to one year from three years. He was released on 15 September 2009 for good behavior, after serving nine months of the sentence. After his release, Al-Zaidi was treated for injuries and later said he planned to "build orphanages, a children's hospital, and medical and orthopedic centers offering free treatment and manned by Iraqi doctors and medical staff.</div><div class="blogger-post-footer">theatre, arvind gaur, rashi bunny ,indian theatre,lushin dubey, girish karnad, mahesh dattani,delhi theatre, bitter chocolate, theatre workshop, india habitat centre </div>Asmita Theatre Grouphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08413867792575306783noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12717381.post-45177464547699758062011-12-18T12:00:00.000-08:002011-12-18T12:05:47.231-08:00Director Arvind Gaur’s new play, "I Will Not Cry", solo act by Lushin Dubey,in Jaipur<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOQ4Ko6BSsz8wIdkzGp8TDXEM15qZiXIlvDElC_6lV-em7EJQVaZ4JghlSCNyb6lPFgGY8dqQvQ2lSsK98GFuQE3Qr_DYrJZXQop0hXMASrX0K3k9242_xYEfKQwYJWtuGHUd1/s1600/i+will+not+cry+solo+by+lushin.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 213px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOQ4Ko6BSsz8wIdkzGp8TDXEM15qZiXIlvDElC_6lV-em7EJQVaZ4JghlSCNyb6lPFgGY8dqQvQ2lSsK98GFuQE3Qr_DYrJZXQop0hXMASrX0K3k9242_xYEfKQwYJWtuGHUd1/s320/i+will+not+cry+solo+by+lushin.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5687562055491891810" /></a><br />Director Arvind Gaur’s new play, <br />"I Will Not Cry",<br />solo act by Lushin Dubey<br />directed & scripted by Arvind Gaur<br />focusses on the issue of increasing number of child deaths in our country.<br /><br />‘I WILL NOT CRY’<br />solo play by Lushin Dubey,<br />directed & scripted by Arvind Gaur<br />on 20th dec at jawahar Kala Kendra, Jaipur at 6.30pm <br />presented by Save the Children<br />the play is an exceptional blend of theatre and multimedia, highlighting the issue of child survival ...through satire and music excerpts.it will bring alive the sad truth of millions of unnecessary deaths of children in our country. It hopes to evoke our collective responsibility, as a nation, to act together.<br /><br />Director's Note -<br />“The child deaths in India are most alarming and shocking situation. India has unofficially become the world’s child death capital,over 5,000 children die in the country every day ,due to totally preventable causes like diarrhoea, pneumonia and birth related complications.Every 15 seconds, a kid is dying and over four lakh newborns die within the first 24 hours of birth every year, which is the highest anywhere in the world,But sadly and shockingly, this is not a priority for us.The priorities of our economic policies are changing and children figure nowhere there. Schemes, plans and funds are there but they don't reach their destination.Ultimately, it all boils down to corruption.<br /><br />The objective of this the play is not just to stir and sensitise the audience about to the shocking and shameful number of child deaths in our country, but to also alert them to introspect on their social responsibility towards the issues,”<br />- Arvind Gaur,<br /><br />Cast-Credit-<br />Multi media/Film shoot -Vikki, Manoj Rai ,Nikhil, Monish<br />Music - Dr, Sangeeta Gaur<br />Sarangi - Anil Mishra<br />Costume Asstt- Anamika Jha<br />Set - Sanjeev Morya & ashok<br />Back stage - Gaurav Mishra,Abhisek Pandey,Kunal Sharma, Asish, Suraj Singh, Rahul Khanna,Shilpi Marwaha,Shiv Chauhan,Ishwak Singh,Smita Lal,Vivak,Himansu Maggo,Vikash<br />Lights & sound- Mishra ji ,Satti, Naresh<div class="blogger-post-footer">theatre, arvind gaur, rashi bunny ,indian theatre,lushin dubey, girish karnad, mahesh dattani,delhi theatre, bitter chocolate, theatre workshop, india habitat centre </div>Asmita Theatre Grouphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08413867792575306783noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12717381.post-45447197022841224762011-11-23T14:34:00.000-08:002011-11-23T16:07:50.733-08:00"I Will Not Cry" - solo act by Lushin Dubey directed by Arvind Gaur<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqfb3nlbYyJkEWJJaq01AZYMrBBNzK1jvPFnoXKS61TDj02ozRCIO7WfODSKUqQyDUd0-4NEtqGpNtqQwPl3L1j5kPMgM2jLO-_oX22XY9wzED7QDvg0T2zi6rwn0UMvFfa9Sl/s1600/i+will+not+cry+solo+by+lushin.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 213px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqfb3nlbYyJkEWJJaq01AZYMrBBNzK1jvPFnoXKS61TDj02ozRCIO7WfODSKUqQyDUd0-4NEtqGpNtqQwPl3L1j5kPMgM2jLO-_oX22XY9wzED7QDvg0T2zi6rwn0UMvFfa9Sl/s320/i+will+not+cry+solo+by+lushin.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5678334738641883218" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLBhrOl5Tvu1HO8Ie5LQb1KqXaA1qOnOGKJqvYTQroJmQRBzQkgM9qJ22zj8c34EqQ69bR5VDgXw4ul6zYMjqcEQ713YCuq2Ph4X3L0zrf3YdiWhjewXvyliwbezI1RXhPrC4y/s1600/333658_10150962723905475_655620474_22098855_429295048_o.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 213px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLBhrOl5Tvu1HO8Ie5LQb1KqXaA1qOnOGKJqvYTQroJmQRBzQkgM9qJ22zj8c34EqQ69bR5VDgXw4ul6zYMjqcEQ713YCuq2Ph4X3L0zrf3YdiWhjewXvyliwbezI1RXhPrC4y/s320/333658_10150962723905475_655620474_22098855_429295048_o.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5678334401945443890" /></a><br />Director Arvind Gaur’s new play, "I Will Not Cry", solo act by Lushin Dubey focusses on the issue of increasing number of child deaths in our country.<br /><br />‘I WILL NOT CRY’ <br />solo play by Lushin Dubey,<br />directed & scripted by Arvind Gaur <br />on 23rd nov at 6pm at Sri Ram Centre, Safdar Hashmi Marg,Mandi House. <br />presented by Save the Children<br />the play is an exceptional blend of theatre and multimedia, highlighting the issue of child survival ...through satire and music excerpts.it will bring alive the sad truth of millions of unnecessary deaths of children in our country. It hopes to evoke our collective responsibility, as a nation, to act together.<br /><br />Director's Note -<br />“The child deaths in India are most alarming and shocking situation. India has unofficially become the world’s child death capital,over 5,000 children die in the country every day ,due to totally preventable causes like diarrhoea, pneumonia and birth related complications.Every 15 seconds, a kid is dying and over four lakh newborns die within the first 24 hours of birth every year, which is the highest anywhere in the world,But sadly and shockingly, this is not a priority for us.The priorities of our economic policies are changing and children figure nowhere there. Schemes, plans and funds are there but they don't reach their destination.Ultimately, it all boils down to corruption.<br /><br />The objective of this the play is not just to stir and sensitise the audience about to the shocking and shameful number of child deaths in our country, but to also alert them to introspect on their social responsibility towards the issues,” <br />- Arvind Gaur,<br /><br />Cast-Credit- <br />Multi media/Film shoot -Vikki, Manoj Rai ,Nikhil, Monish<br />Music - Dr, Sangeeta Gaur<br />Sarangi - Anil Mishra<br />Costume Asstt- Anamika Jha<br />Set - Sanjeev Morya & ashok<br />Back stage - Gaurav Mishra,Abhisek Pandey,Kunal Sharma, Asish, Suraj Singh, Rahul Khanna,Shilpi Marwaha,Shiv Chauhan,Ishwak Singh,Smita Lal,Vivak,Himansu Maggo,Vikash<br />Lights & sound- Mishra ji ,Satti, Naresh<div class="blogger-post-footer">theatre, arvind gaur, rashi bunny ,indian theatre,lushin dubey, girish karnad, mahesh dattani,delhi theatre, bitter chocolate, theatre workshop, india habitat centre </div>Asmita Theatre Grouphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08413867792575306783noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12717381.post-51745111286731119002011-11-11T15:38:00.000-08:002018-08-29T11:54:47.049-07:00Ambedkar AUR Gandhi directed by Arvind Gaur at Ghorghat,Munger, Bihar on 13th Nov<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Asmita theatre group Presents<br />
Rajesh Kumar's<br />
"Ambedkar AUR Gandhi" <br />
directed by Arvind Gaur <br />
on 13th November'2011 <br />
at Ghorghat,Munger,Bihar.<br />
"घोरघट की लाठी महोत्सव"<br />
ACTORS- Viren Basoya,Shiv Chauhan,Bajrang Bali Singh,Saurabh Pal,Malay Garg,Palak Bhutani ,Gaurav Mishra, Rahul Khanna,Suraj Singh,Himansu Maggo,Ishwak Singh,Himansu Katara,Pankaj Datta,Kakoli Gaur,Saveree Gaur,Manu Chaudhary,Vartika Tiwari,Sachin Sexena,Kumar Vaibhav,Amit Dahiya,Pradeep Awasthi,Bhavdeep Singh,Manoj Yadav,Mayank Pandey,Anamika Singh, Smita Lal,Rahul Srivastava,Rohit Vaid,Vineet Kumar,Shivani Sinha,Vivak Sharma,Harsh,Asish Sejwal,Tarun Kumar,NarendraThakur<br />
<br />
Credits-<br />
Poems- Avataar Singh Paash (पाश ),Shankar Shailendra ,Bhupen Hazarika,Bob Dylan<br />
Music by Dr.Sangeeta Gaur<br />
musicians - Sandy , Anil Mishra & Mohit Sharma<br />
Group Incharge ; Viren Basoya<br />
Production : Saurabh,Shiv,Rahul,Gaurav & himanshu<br />
Photos- Monica Dawar,Abhinay sharma, S.Nishol,Manoj Rai,Nischal ji</div>
<div class="blogger-post-footer">theatre, arvind gaur, rashi bunny ,indian theatre,lushin dubey, girish karnad, mahesh dattani,delhi theatre, bitter chocolate, theatre workshop, india habitat centre </div>Asmita Theatre Grouphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08413867792575306783noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12717381.post-3325580943619364862011-11-04T13:09:00.000-07:002018-02-20T10:56:53.918-08:00Ashok Lal's "Ek Mamooli Aadmi" directed by Arvind Gaur on 7th Nov at Chandigarh<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<br />
<br />
Ashok Lal's -Ek Mamooli Aadmi" <br />
directed by Arvind Gaur<br />
7th November 2011 at 6.30pm <br />
at Tagore Auditorium, Chandigarh<br />
<br />
Actors- <br />
Viren Basoya,Bajrang Bali Singh,Shiv Chauhan,Malay Garg,Rahul Khanna,Gaurav Mishra,Himansu Maggu,Palak Bhutani,Pankaj Dutta,Suraj Singh,Abhisek Pandey,Mannu Chudhary, Narendra,Kakoli Gaur,Saveree Gaur,Pradip Awasthi,Sachin Sexena,Tarun Kumar,Vartika Tiwari,Kumar Vaibhav,Amit Dahiya,Pradeep Awasthi, Bhavdeep Singh,Manoj Yadav,Mayank Pandey,Anamika Singh, Smita Lal,Rahul Srivastava,Rohit Vaid,Vineet Kumar,Vivak Sharma, Harsh,Ashish Sejwal,Tarun Kumar,Narendra Thakur ,Kunal, Tushar,Prabhakar, Neetu,Rinki Negi,Kajal Badana,Devesh,Hargun,Illa Joshi,Rahul Malhotra ,Kundan, Naman,Neetu Sharma,Pooja Tyagi,Praveen Kr.,Ratan,Richa, Seeth,Vikash <br />
Music by Dr. Sangeeta Gaur<br />
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About the play- <br />
Ek Mamooli Aadmi' underlines those features of an urban middle class setting which make the yearning for real happiness an agonizing experience. The play also accentuates the contours of a system in which even biological relations are bound to breed loneliness and family becomes fatal to an individual.Ishwar Chand Awasthi, the protagonist, is to die soon and this fact makes him realise that it was not life that he led so far, it was death, unnoticed and unannounced. The perception of this death animates him and he turns to be the source of others' happiness- an extraordinary asset to life and society.<br />
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Critics says <br />
'Ek Mamooli Aadmi' is one more milestone in Asmita's engaging repertoire of meaningful theatre. <br />
- Nikhat Kazmi (Times of India)<br />
Meaningful production.. .Another feather in the cap of a young director Arvind Gaur. <br />
- Kavita Nagpal (H T)<br />
'Ek Mamooli Aadmi' is an excellent play with a lot of humou , lot of life's reality<br />
- Smita Nirula (Pioneer)<br />
The play is built around the protagonist Umesh's curiosity to find out why Brahmins had refused to participate in his father's 'tehrvi' ... production is excellent... innovative...<br />
- Romesh Chander (Hindu)<br />
Written by Ashok Lal and directed by Arvind Gaur (अरविन्द गौड़), the play is a deeply moving description of the travails of a middle-aged clerk who knows of his impending death. Reserved, reclusive and politically correct Ishwar Chand, decides to do some unusual things before dying. The acts are not a result of angst or deeds of rebellion, Ishwar just wants to savour another life, paint a new picture of himself for his own viewing. His escape from reality is a challenge to that very reality. Death becomes a motivation for pleasure; he wants to please others, see others happy, and make others fulfilled <br />
- Indian Express<br />
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Director's Note<br />
For Asmita Theatre, a new production has always been a part of a process – a fresh chance to react within ourselves and our society, to explore new dimensions in theatre – our choice of socially relevant themes being an extension of this goal. 'Ek Mamooli Aadmi' started off as an exercise to explore ways of using time and space to convey the underlying theme.<br />
During this process we discovered various aspects of our society as it stands today, under the shadow of a consumerist culture, where the base of many a relationship is superficial and the individual is often left with a feeling of loneliness and existential angst- yet often indifferent and unwilling to make a change.<br />
As this play exposes the political and social attitudes and priorities of our society on a smaller canvas such as that of the family and workplace, my actors were involved in an intensive process of looking at their immediate world both inner and outer, with a fresh perspective.<br />
Many a moment in 'Ek Mamooli Aadmi' rose out of much debate and discussion. I hope that this play makes relevant and positive contribution – as t has to us and puts forth a fresh set of questions that we may ask of our society and ourselves.<br />
___________________________________________________________<br />
The Unknown Citizen'<br />
Poem by W H Auden<br />
<br />
"Our researches into public opinion are content<br />
That he helped the proper opinion for the time of year <br />
When there was peace he was for peace<br />
When there was war he went <br />
He was married and added five children to the population ;<br />
Which our eugenist says was the right number for a parent of his generation <br />
And our teachers report that he never interfered with their education <br />
Was he free? Was he happy?<br />
The question is absurd<br />
Had anything been wrong, we should certainly have heard."<br />
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">theatre, arvind gaur, rashi bunny ,indian theatre,lushin dubey, girish karnad, mahesh dattani,delhi theatre, bitter chocolate, theatre workshop, india habitat centre </div>Asmita Theatre Grouphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08413867792575306783noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12717381.post-37838829886754211672011-10-21T17:42:00.000-07:002018-02-20T11:06:29.914-08:00Street play Interfaith on 22nd Oct at Patparganj ,directed by Arvind Gaur<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Asmita Theatre presents Street Play "Inter Faith"directed by Arvind Gaur at Bathla Appts, Patparganj<br />
on 22nd oct.at 7pm on the occasion of Diwali.<br />
Interfaith- a street play by Asmita Theatre Group on the mindsets of the people.The play talks about how people make stereotypes in society,how we,as human beings don’t trust other people on the basis of caste, class, religion and colour.It also depicts 6 stories showing the atroci...ties faced by the victims...who suffer because of the... genocide caused by the differences among people. For how many years will innocent people have to suffer because of difference in beliefs among people?<br />
Performed by Asmita Theatre Group Actors.<br />
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Actors: Shiv Chauhan,Malay Garg,Palak Bhutani ,Gaurav Mishra, Rahul Khanna,Suraj Singh,Himansu Maggo,Ishwak Singh,Pankaj Datta,Kakoli Gaur, Saveree Gaur,Manu Chaudhary,Vartika Tiwari,Anish Kumar,Sachin Sexena,Kumar Vaibhav,Amit Dahiya,Pradeep Awasthi, Bhavdeep Singh,Manoj Yadav,Mayank Pandey,Anamika Singh, Smita Lal,Rahul Srivastava,Rohit Vaid,Vineet Kumar,Vivak Sharma, Harsh,Ashish Sejwal,Tarun Kumar,Narendra Thakur ,Kunal, Tushar,Prabhakar, Neetu,Rinki Negi,Kajal Badana,Devesh,Hargun,Illa Joshi,Rahul Malhotra ,Kundan, Naman,Neetu Sharma,Pooja Tyagi,Praveen Kr.,Ratan,Richa, Seeth,Smita lal,Vikash<br />
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">theatre, arvind gaur, rashi bunny ,indian theatre,lushin dubey, girish karnad, mahesh dattani,delhi theatre, bitter chocolate, theatre workshop, india habitat centre </div>Asmita Theatre Grouphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08413867792575306783noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12717381.post-64729753459836986912011-10-21T17:29:00.000-07:002018-02-20T11:07:53.559-08:00Mahesh Dattani's"Final Solutions" directed by Arvind Gaur at Mulakaat Fest on 10th October<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Mahesh Dattani's"Final Solutions" <br />
directed by Arvind Gaur <br />
on 10th of October at 7pm <br />
at IGNCA,Janpath.<br />
Actors-Susan Brar,Viren Basoya,Rashmi Singh,Malay Garg,Neha Sharma,<br />
Palak bhuatni,Bajrang Bali singh,Vartika Tiwari...Chorus-Rahul Khanna,Shiv Chauhan,Himansu Maggo,Gaurav Mishra,Suraj Singh,Ishwak Singh,Punkaj Datta,Abhisek Pandey,Mannu Chaudhary,Sachin Saxena,Tarun Kr.,Rohit Vaid,Kumar,Vaibhav,Amit Dahiya, Asish Sejwal,Mayank Pandey,Pradeep Awasthi,Praveen,Vivak sharma,Bhavdeep Singh Chaddha,Vineet Kr,Rahul,Vikash Sharma,Kunal,Kundan,Naman,Tushar vij,Hargun,Firoz,Prabhakar,Rahul Malhotra<br />
TAKHLEEQ'S indo-pak international festival<br />
MULAKAAT (10th-12th oct , 2011)<br />
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Mahesh Dattani's Final Solutions<br />
Translated By : Shahid Anwar<br />
Music By : Dr. Sangeeta Gaur<br />
Venue : IGNCA,Janpath, Indira gandhi national centre for arts<br />
an Asmita Theatre Presentation.<br />
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Kavita Nagpal,Hindustan Times -<br />
Mahesh Dattani's final solutions in its Hindustan avatar sound and look much better than it did in the original English. Translator Shahid Anwar and director Arvind Gaur have made major improvements – and not merely of the cosmetic kind – to reveal the communal passions that scar our collective subconscious…the plot is straightforward.Mobs are on the rampage in the city in the aftermath of an attack on a rath yatra passing through a Muslim locality…in a daring departure, Arvind gaur invites the audience to participate in a debate<br />
at the end of the play. And people have been staying backing large numbers to discuss the communal aspect of the drama…though there are the usual status quoits, strong voices have been raised for and<br />
against the treatment of the "guilty" majority and the "persecuted" minority.With the screaming, stomping, sinister mob in theback ground of this high charged interplay, we have a dramatically explosive play on boards….Arvind Gaur pitched and kept the action at a level on high tension. .....<br />
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Smita Nirula,The Pioneer-<br />
Final solution was first performed in Bombay under Alyque Padamsee's direction. It evolved through a workshop after the Ahmedabad riots,and gained relevance post the Mumbai riots; it has consistently been associated with them. Written in English final solution found an audience that normally chose to disassociate itself with the harsh realities of life and pretend that certain situations did not exist.An audience that went to the theatre to be entertained was suddenly confronted with its own reality…there was a negative anger with the audience. It was an anger towards being made to feel apologetic for one's own being, one's faith. There was resentment at being<br />
portrayed as "the enemy"…Shahid Anwar has translated the script in to a simply written but highly forceful and evocative Hindustani script for Asmita. Directed by Arvind gaur, the first Hindustani version of final solutions premiered in September 1997. An intense play it confronts a situation where Hindu Muslim animosity develops in to chaos…what eventually come across (apart from the larger fact of communalism) is that all the characters are victims of circumstances and social conditioning and what was a personal experience for them,gains the enormity of a larger perspective.The chorus is something that drew a lot of comment …here the designis straightforward. Its continual presence, its hovering proximity and its occasionally threatening, occasionally silent almost oppressive nearness, constantly comments upon and envelops the action inside the Gandhi household. Shifting from the two communities it also comments upon the fact that a mob has no name, no loyalty. If the price is right so is the cause. The play is powerful, the production intense, the subject difficult, the response good.<br />
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Nikhat Kazmi,Times of India-<br />
Play, that looks at India - now and henceforth; both forceful and relevant…communalism? One community hates another. One community is in the majority, the other is in the minority. Consequently, the two communities are at loggerheads, living in a atmosphere of conflict and acrimony. The 1990's have seen a number of films, plays and dissertations, which have tried to lift the cover off this contemporary scourge.And some where in the volley of questions and answers. There comes forth a reductive analysis, which reduces a complex phenomenon to a series of cause and effects. Rarely do we come across serious attempts that go beyond the superficial lesions and talk about the problem with all its complexities.<br />
Mahesh Dattani's is that rare look at the socio-political problem that defines all final solutions. In Dattani’s view, Hindus and Muslims are not just two cardboard communities who clash when a procession is stoned, a pooja is disrupted, a mosque is dismantled. These for him, are just the jagged tips of an ominous iceberg. One that threatens to freeze the entire landscape into polarized communities that live by intolerance and hate in place of harmony…more important is the iceberg an amorphous mass that glorifies the credo of unity in diversity without actually understanding the meaning of diversity…the play looks straight in to the heart of fundamentalist and the liberal and tears down the prototypes…<br />
Asmita's Hindustani adaptation of the play (by Shahid Anwar) , under Arvind gaur 's competent direction, managed to retain the philosophical import of the text, without losing out on the visual appeal . The inter-cutting passage through time was handled innovately by keeping all the three generations of the Gandhi family on stage for the play. The constant presence of the shadowy mob at the back with its hysterical chants represents the ongoing scourge of communalism, which has persisted<br />
since partition. Intense, topical, artistically mounted, Asmita's final solutions brought back memories of Habib Tanvir's rendition of jis Lahore nahin dehya and Saeed Mirza's Naseem, two other meaningful attempts to address the issue of communalism.<br />
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Romesh chander,The Hindu-<br />
A show not to be missed…final solution makes a point: look for communal hatred not on the streets but deep inside ourselves…Dattani’s best play so far and as in some of his other plays, he takes the family unit as his locale and "moves between the past and the present."<br />
The playwright takes three generations of a middleclass family as his base and through undercurrents that effect its members , explores the psyche of his characters in these days of communal strife…quite a few plays have been written on the communal theme but 'final solutions" is perhaps the only one so far which, instead of moralizing and raising hollow slogans for communal harmony , examines the issue from the point of view of a sociologist and says "communal hatred is located not out on the street but deep inside ourselves," the play holds a mirror to the society we live in…the director Arvind gaur has done away with hackneyed masks or other paraphernalia to identify the mob for they are lumpens – sometimes Hindus ,sometimes Muslim.<br />
We recognize them only through there slogans and war cries their comments and questions. It is money that collects the crowd, and as the mob outside the house disappears: Javed says" may be they aren't paid overtime"…what a beautiful play, beautifully translated, and beautifully directed…"final solutions" is a demanding play and the cast as a whole tries its best…the response was overwhelming, particularly from the younger generation .the message had gone down well.<br />
The play holds a mirror to the society we live in. …<br />
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G. George,The Statesman-<br />
Off with the language barrier…proved its mettle Dattani is India's leading contemporary English language playwright…final solutions bares the ugly face of communalism. It took moral courage , in the immediate after math of the Babri masjid nightmare, on the part of Dattani to write the the play…mercifully the communal temperature now a days is more normal… nonetheless , staging of the play has moral merit and Asmita can take justifiable pride in maintaining its tradition of socially relevant theatre …final solution moves from partition to present day communal tension…the Asmita production scored over padamsee's English original in that power dialogue came across as more realistic and authentic…gaur's innovation of a background chorus by turn , violent Hindu and Muslim mobs are effective.<br />
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Deepa Punjani,Editor, Mumbai Theatre Guide-<br />
On a more contemporary note, Mahesh Dattani's FINAL SOLUTIONS directed by Arvind Gaur easily stood out as one of the few truly satisfying experiences of this eleven day treat (9th national theatre festival, Nehru Centre,Mumbai) for the senses. As the dramatic tension (neatly orchestrated by a chorus) rises in the play, the subterranean psyche of each character is laid bare.Abuses are hurled, raw passions are evoked, attempts at reconciliation are made and prejudices and fears are acknowledged The beauty of the script indeed lies in its ability to relentlessly and sensitively question. Its urgent need to use 'dialogue' as a remedy for a socially pressing issue such as communalism, is the play's underlying theme. Arvind Gaur's direction is commendable. While the front of the stage is peopled by the principal characters who are psychologically exorcizing themselves, the back part of the stage has a chorus whose role is as symbolic as it is instrumental in furthering the action in the play when required.<br />
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In Retrospect: Select plays of the 9th National Theatre Festival,Nehru Centre , Mumbai<br />
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Indian express<br />
Mahesh dattani opens up a lively debate on communalism in the play final solutions, translated in to Hindi by Shahid Anwar… fine performances and a powerful chorus added to the play force.<br />
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Smita Nirula,Repeat show preview ,The Pioneer-<br />
Something to reflect upon…Asmita's production is simple and intense. The feeling of a pro-Muslim or a pro-Hindu bias was happily not there. The director invited the audience to stay after the play and conduct a dialogue with the team. Some of the responses from the audience were humbling. Two elderly gentlemen felt that they has given them something to reflect upon and had proved that there was hope for the future; Babban's last line "if you are willing to forget, am willing to tolerate" gave them food foe thought. When asked about biases, the audience was quite clear in its response: "the production is balanced "…chorus drew a lot of comment… shifting between the two communities, it also comments upon the fact that a mob has no name, no loyalty. if the price is the right , so is the cause, cash is king…that the Asmita company has worked very hard on this not-so-easy production is obvious…communal angle comes across loud and clear…something you can take home with you to think about.<br />
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The play is powerful, the production is intense, the subject difficult,the response good..<br />
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Vikram Prajapati,Navbharat Times-<br />
Final Solution’ has successfully highlighted the partition-related malaise, which is not just prevalent in our society until today, but fast spreading its tentacles. It raises all those questions, which either remain unresolved or have not been addressed so far…. An honest effort towards actually restoring communal harmony has yet to be made…Summing up, the play was successful in holding the interest of the spectators and keeping them involved.<br />
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Jag Mohan,Dainik Hindustan Times-<br />
Communal frenzy knows no bounds.It can touch any extremes; yet human compassion holds high n stays aloft. This truth has been depicted by Mahesh Dattani’s English play ‘Final Solution’, translated into Hindi by Shahid Anwar…The storyline is quite deep and touching and forces people to think many times and truly shows a new and relevant path.<br />
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First City magazine-<br />
Promoting theatre of substance…aesthetically innovative and socially relevant theatre…"final solution has a powerful contemporary resonance as the central issue of communalism is of the utmost concerns of our society," says Arvind Gaur the director. Presenting different shades of communalist attitudes prevalent among Hindus and Muslims, the play attempts to underline the stereotypes influencing the collective sensibility of one community against another.Moving from partition to the present day communal riots.Final solutions examines the attitudes of three generations of a gujrati business family…he says, ' memory plays an important role in the play as reminiscences of the characters develop the plot. I have used a chorus to perform the visual element and images. Not only that, the chorus also turns into props or represents society or becomes the audience with in the play."…" all the characters stay on stage throughout.<br />
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There is no formula of entry and exit," explains Arvind. "This is a technique of alienation as the actors not involved in the action stand in one corner to divert attention and alleviate the audience response to the stage activity."…<br />
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Arvind does not believe in using theatre as a medium to merely titillate or incite revolution but as a means to increase awareness…he says, "I don’t want to impose my biases on the audience. let them as they are aware, decide for themselves…<br />
Asmita is known for long post performance discussions with the audience and also for incorporating the suggestions in subsequent stagings…naturally, continuous training and development is Asmita's major concern…the concept of a born actor is being eroded, directors realize that training is indispensable…we may be celebrating fifty years of freedom but theatre is still not free" says Arvind…"serious theatre exists and so does the will to carry on which is evident in the number of productions coming up, not only by professional groups but also by college dramatics societies."<br />
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Dr Prem Sharan Sharma,(theatre reviewer)-<br />
There come those moments, when situations compel an individual to introspect, understand and restrain oneself so-as-to avert disastrous consequences…all this is brought out by Asmita’s recent presentation ‘Final Solution’, directed by Arvind Gaur. Asmita and Arvind are synonymous and thus inseparable…<br />
The play moves at a furious pace, and comes to a point where man is forced to introspect, for communalism is not outside but within. One needs to feel and understand this. If each individual of every community thinks right then he would know that communalism germinates and blossoms within. The weed of Communalism eats us inside out, and benefits none. It is like a wild growth in a field, which eats up the crop itself…Various possibilities and strains emerge on watching this play. Events unfold fast, keeping the viewer completely hooked. The team of seasoned artists, add to the natural flow & fluidity. The direction is taut and none escapes the director’s keen eye. The set was handled, by Tribhuvan.<br />
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Gulush Swami,(Deshbandhu, Jabalpur)<br />
Experimental direction…Final Solution has been a presentation, which is not just seen in the auditorium, but the issue stays with the viewers, to be taken home and pondered & mulled over… Arvind Gaur’s pragmatic direction casts its spell on the viewers. For those who have not seen ‘Final Solution’, it is like an opportunity gone by..<br />
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Rashtriya Sahara<br />
Its dark reflections hover in the thought-strands, movements, perceptions and rationale. Mahesh Dattani’s ‘Final Solutions’ is a play that presents such a nightmarish phase, which haunts in different forms all through the life…The roots of communalism are not just entrenched in the society, but have also rooted/lodged themselves as decisive elements in our psyche/thought processes. Though the characters have pointed out at the causes that disrupt the peace and harmony and lead to unrest, through their expressions and body-language, Arvind has projected the socio-psychological tides and trends/dynamics through the use of chorus, which is magical with its harmonious blend of sounds and dialogues…Shahid Anwar’s Hindi translation of ‘Final Solution’ is based on the background of Gujarat riots.<br />
The entire gamut of its dramatic possibilities has been well projected by Arvind Gaur, during its recent presentation at India Habitat Centre…Revolving around three generations, the events in the play unfold at a swift pace, weaving the post-independence partition riots, with the communal riots of today in a common strand. Memories are the focal-point of the play…<br />
Arvind’s experiments with the technique and fabric have been much appreciated. He is quite a matured and visionary theatre personality. Overall, the flawless presentation, direction and performances draw you to the play over and again & give it a repeat-value.<br />
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Nagar Samvadata,Jabalpur news<br />
Successful staging of final solution…Arvind Gaur directed play ‘Final Solution’ depicts the travails of a middle class family after the communal riots. The riot scenes were quite impressive.<br />
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Drama Critic,city news<br />
Good play , good acting…finds a chord with the audience…Mahesh Dattani’s 'final solutions'( a title derived from Nazi pogroms) is a commendably bold play in that it closely studies the communal virus<br />
which took centre stage in Indian society culminating in the Ayodhya demolition and the horrific bomb blasts in Mumbai. Though the Bangalore based Gujrati playwright had Ahmedabad extended spells of communal violence in mind when he wrote " final solution' his analysis of the problem was tellingly applicable to the post-Ayodhya situation…Asmita and Arvind gaur did well to pick up the thread from Padamsee with a fine Hindustani translation by Shahid Anwar…gaur's forte is powerful crowd scenes accented with physical action and emotional dialogue calling for histrionic and declamatory skills of a high order the play has plenty of both. A yelling menacingly muscular chorus line is the ugly face of majority communalism. It also doubles as the more subtle but also more sinister visage of minority fanaticism…in all an enjoyable play worth every minute of it. Mahesh Dattani script adhered to faithfully, adds to the pleasure.<br />
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Director's note<br />
'Final Solutions' touches us, and the bitter realities of our lives so closely that it becomes a difficult play to handle for the Indian Director. The past begins top determine the outlook of the present and thus the earlier contradictions re-emerge.<br />
No concrete solutions are provided in the play to the problem of communalism but it raises questions on secularism and pseudo secularism. It forces us to look at ourselves in relation to the attitudes that persist in<br />
the society.<br />
Since it is an experiment in time and space and relates to memory, it is a play, which involves a lot of introspection on the part of the characters in the play and thus induces similar introspection in the viewers. I have attempted to experiment with the chorus. It has been used in a style, which I would like to call 'realistic stylisation'. The chorus represents the conflicts of the characters. Thus the chorus is a sense is the psycho-physical representation of the characters and also provides the audience with the visual images of the characters' conflicts. There is no stereotyped use of the characterisation of the chorus because communalism has no face,it is an attitude and thus it becomes an image of the characters.<br />
The sets and properties used in the play are simple. This has been done to accentuate the internal conflicts and the subtext of the play. Theatre for 'Asmita' and me is a method of reflection, understanding and debating the contemporary socio-political issues through the process of the play. We hope the play will also have a lasting impact on the audience.<br />
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About The Play :<br />
Final Solutions" has a powerful contemporary resonance as it addresses<br />
as issue of utmost concern to our society, i.e. the issue of communal ism.The play presents different shades of the communalist attitude prevalent among Hindus and Muslims in its attempt to underline the stereotypes and cliches influencing the collective sensibility of one community against another. What distinguishes this work from other<br />
plays written on the subject is that it is neither sentimental in its appeal<br />
nor simplified in its approach. It advances the objective candour or a social scientist while presenting a mosaic of diverse attitudes towards religious identity that often plunges the country into inhuman strife. Yet the issue is not moralized, as the demons of communal hatred are located not out on the street but deep within us.<br />
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The play moves from the partition to the present day communal riots. It probes into the religious bigotry by examining the attitudes of three generations of a middle-class Gujrati business family, Hridhika, the grandmother, is obsessed with her father's murder during the partition turmoil and the betrayal by a Muslim friend, Zarine. Her son, Ramnik Gandhi, is haunted by the knowledge his fortunes were founded on a shop of Zarine's father, which was burnt down by his kinsmen.<br />
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Hardika's daughter-in-law, Aruna, lives by the strict code of the Hindu Sanskar and the granddaughter, Smita, cannot allow herself a<br />
relationship with a Muslim boy. The pulls and counter-pulls of the family are exposed when two Muslim boys, Babban and Javed, seek shelter in their house on being chased by a baying Hindu mob. Babban is a moderate while Javed<br />
is an aggressive youth. After a nightlong exchange of judgements and retorts between the characters, tolerance and forgetfulness emerge as the only possible solution of the crisis. Thus, the play becomes a timely reminder of the conflicts raging not only in India but in other parts of<br />
the world.</div>
<div class="blogger-post-footer">theatre, arvind gaur, rashi bunny ,indian theatre,lushin dubey, girish karnad, mahesh dattani,delhi theatre, bitter chocolate, theatre workshop, india habitat centre </div>Asmita Theatre Grouphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08413867792575306783noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12717381.post-28623008816659986312011-10-21T17:22:00.000-07:002018-02-20T10:59:36.096-08:00Ashok Lal's -" Ek Mamooli Aadmi" on 8th Oct. at 7 pm at Sri Ram Centre<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Ashok Lal's -Ek Mamooli Aadmi" directed by Arvind Gaur<br />
8th Oct. at 7.00pm at Sri Ram Centre, Mandi House, New delhi<br />
Actors- Viren Basoya,Bajrang Bali Singh,Shiv Chauhan,Malay Garg,Rahul Khanna,Gaurav Mishra,Himansu Maggu,Palak Bhutani,Pankaj Dutta,Suraj Singh,Abhisek Pandey,mannu Chudhary,Narendra,kakoli,saveri,pankaj Sandilyaa,Pradip Awasthi,Sachin Sexena,Tarun Kumar,Vartika Tiwari...<br />
Music by Dr. Sangeeta Gaur<br />
A...bout the play- Ek Mamooli Aadmi' underlines those features of an urban middle class setting which make the yearning for real happiness an agonizing experience. The play also accentuates the contours of a system in which even biological relations are bound to breed loneliness and family becomes fatal to an individual.<br />
Ishwar Chand Awasthi, the protagonist, is to die soon and this fact makes him realise that it was not life that he led so far, it was death, unnoticed and unannounced. The perception of this death animates him and he turns to be the source of others' happiness- an extraordinary asset to life and society.<br />
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Director's Note<br />
For Asmita Theatre, a new production has always been a part of a process – a fresh chance to react within ourselves and our society, to explore new dimensions in theatre – our choice of socially relevant themes being an extension of this goal. 'Ek Mamooli Aadmi' started off as an exercise to explore ways of using time and space to convey the underlying theme.<br />
During this process we discovered various aspects of our society as it stands today, under the shadow of a consumerist culture, where the base of many a relationship is superficial and the individual is often left with a feeling of loneliness and existential angst- yet often indifferent and unwilling to make a change.<br />
As this play exposes the political and social attitudes and priorities of our society on a smaller canvas such as that of the family and workplace, my actors were involved in an intensive process of looking at their immediate world both inner and outer, with a fresh perspective.<br />
Many a moment in 'Ek Mamooli Aadmi' rose out of much debate and discussion. I hope that this play makes relevant and positive contribution – as t has to us and puts forth a fresh set of questions that we may ask of our society and ourselves</div>
<div class="blogger-post-footer">theatre, arvind gaur, rashi bunny ,indian theatre,lushin dubey, girish karnad, mahesh dattani,delhi theatre, bitter chocolate, theatre workshop, india habitat centre </div>Asmita Theatre Grouphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08413867792575306783noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12717381.post-67143012872802755802011-10-21T17:07:00.000-07:002011-10-21T19:37:35.583-07:00Mahesh Bhatt presents "The Last Salute" in Jammu Directed By Arvind Gaur on 25th Sept<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpWzdpZf9XBSyWIpUTauCrUvZ112szps09FDXTV-l5bp1kTIo7GP3ZKAFZS3K_j3pnpyRaFExMzGrYAfsryqJt63wI4qrfY0oiSPhDueW8BXtHPzhtJ4LgqbRpGK8_TB-_QR8x/s1600/_MG_9414.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 212px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpWzdpZf9XBSyWIpUTauCrUvZ112szps09FDXTV-l5bp1kTIo7GP3ZKAFZS3K_j3pnpyRaFExMzGrYAfsryqJt63wI4qrfY0oiSPhDueW8BXtHPzhtJ4LgqbRpGK8_TB-_QR8x/s320/_MG_9414.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5666139564457578562" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmWBdP6ZEb5u_GyjhqB9CSRAfJ746yOYUVHylkYwCftho3o5BZA_Qyc50_PviByzqMGLUan-LIh2SuEgQgFX6beZddo1v6DYI8s2vPkH8B1ONRerBNejJTRL-9lmqV_ePpCAaY/s1600/_MG_9381.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 209px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmWBdP6ZEb5u_GyjhqB9CSRAfJ746yOYUVHylkYwCftho3o5BZA_Qyc50_PviByzqMGLUan-LIh2SuEgQgFX6beZddo1v6DYI8s2vPkH8B1ONRerBNejJTRL-9lmqV_ePpCAaY/s320/_MG_9381.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5666101891498073842" /></a><br />Mahesh Bhatt presents Rajesh Kumar's play"THE LAST SALUTE" directed by Arvind Gaur, Based on Muntadhr Alzaydi's Book"The last salute to President Bush"starring Imran Zahid in Jammu at General Zorawar Singh Auditorium at 6.30 pm.Music By Dr. Sangeeta Gaur<br /><br />About The Play: The play explores facts of the gulf crisis and the US intervention which has been questioned by the civilized world time and again. The play is expected to attr...act the elite audience which is interested in global issues like this one. It explores emotions, talks about world peace and political orders of the day effect the common man.<br />For More Information Visit http://thelastsalute.com/<br /><br />Cast Credits-Actors- Imran Zahid, Viren Basoya, Shilpi Marwaha, Shiv Chauhan, Malay Garg, Gaurav Mishra, Rahul Khanna, Himanshu Maggu, , Ishwak Singh, Suraj Singh, Manu Chaudhary,Kakoli Gaur,Saveree Gaur, Manoj Yadav, Preadeep Awasthi, Sachin Saxena,Anamika Singh, Tarun kumar, Punkaj Datta, Amit Dhaiya, Kumar Vaibhav, Palak.Narendra Thakur,Bhutani, Abhishek Pandey,Mayank pandey, and Others<br />Music By Dr. Sangeeta Gaur<br /><br />About Mahesh Bhatt:<br />Mahesh Bhatt (born on 20 September 1948), is a prominent Indian film director, producer and screenwriter. Bhatt's early directional career consisted of acclaimed films, such as Arth, Saaransh, Janam, Naam and Zakhm. He was later the writer of numerous commercial films in a range of film genres, from dramas like Hum Hain Rahi Pyar Ke and comedies like Duplicate, though he was mostly recognised for thrillers like Inteha, Jism, Murder and Woh Lamhe. Bhatt began his career as an assistant to Hindi director Raj Khosla. At age 21 he made his debut as a director, with the film Sakat (1970), this was followed by Manzilein Aur Bhi Hainin 1974. His 1979 film, Lahu Ke Do Rang, starring Shabana Azmi and Vinod Khanna, bagged two Filmfare Awards in 1980.Though his first major hit came with Arth (1982), when he turned to his personal life for inspiration. Later, he made many more films taking insights from his personal life, where he highlighted personal narratives, ranging from illegitimate birth to extramarital affair and created critically acclaimed films such as Janam (1985) and Naam (1986).A stand-out film from his earlier period is Saaransh (1984), an exploration of an old couple's anxieties in a universe governed by arbitrary violence, and dramatic films like Kaash (1987), which dealt with real-life family situations with a tragic end. In 1987 he turned producer, when he set up his own banner Vishesh Films, with his brother Mukesh Bhatt. He went on to become one of the most recognised film directors of the Indian film industry in the coming decade, giving both serious films like Daddy (1989), launching his daughter Pooja Bhatt as a film actress, and Swayam (1991); as well as commercial romantic hits like Awaargi (1990), Aashiqui (1990) and Dil Hai Ki Manta Nahin (1991), in which he cast his daughter Pooja with actor Aamir Khan. He next directed Sadak (1991) and won critical acclaim for the films Sir (1993), which saw Pooja Bhatt acting along with Naseeruddin Shah and Criminal (1994). In 1994 he won the National Film Award - Special Jury Award for his film,Hum Hain Rahi Pyar Ke (1993).In 1995 he moved to television, then a newly opening up medium in India. He made two TV series, the English language "A Mouthful of Sky" written by Ashok Banker and the popular Hindi language serial "Swabhimaan" scripted by writer Shobha De. Following this, he directed drama films like Dastak (1996), the debut film of actress Sushmita Sen, and Tamanna (1997), and tried his hand at comedy with Duplicate in 1998.His film, Zakhm (1998), was returned to the censor board because of right-wing pressure critical of its references to the Mumbai riots of 1993.His last film as director was Kartoos (1999). Thereafter, Bhatt retired a director, and took to screenwriting full-time, churning out stories and screenplays for over twenty films, many of which were box-office successes, like Dushman, Raaz, Murder (2004), Gangster (2006) and lastly Woh Lamhe (2006), based on the life of actress Parveen Babi, and on whom he has also scripted the 1982 film Arth.<br />Imran Zahid:<br />Imran Zahid is a theatre person and upcoming Bollywood actor, owns a media school in Delhi and has been extremely close to Mahesh Bhatt’s circle for many years. Zahid plays slain JNU student leader Chandrashekhar Prasad in the in Mahesh Bhatt next much talked about movie "CHANDU"<br /><br />About Muntazer Al Zaidi:<br />Muntadhar al-Zaidi is an Iraqi broadcast journalist who served as a correspondent for Iraqi-owned, Egyptian-based Al-Bagh. As of February 2011, al-Zaidi works with a Lebanese TV channel. On November 16, 2007, al-Zaidi was kidnapped by unknown assailants in Baghdad. He was also previously twice arrested by the United States armed forces. On December 14, 2008, al-Zaidi shouted "This is a farewell kiss from the Iraqi people, you dog" and threw his shoes at then-U.S. president George W. Bush during a Baghdad press conference. Al-Zaidi suffered injuries as he was taken into custody and some sources said he was tortured during his initial detention. There were calls throughout the Middle East to place the shoes in an Iraqi museum,[4] but the shoes were later destroyed by American and Iraqi security forces. Al-Zaidi's shoeing inspired many similar incidents of political protest around the world.<br />Following the incident, Al-Zaidi was "embraced around the Arab world and was represented by the head of the Iraqi Bar Association at trial.On February 20, 2009, al-Zaidi received a 90-minute trial by the Central Criminal Court of Iraq.[On March 12, 2009, he was sentenced to three years in prison for assaulting a foreign head of state during an official visit. On April 7 the sentence was reduced to one year from three years. He was released on 15 September 2009 for good behavior, after serving nine months of the sentence. After his release, Al-Zaidi was treated for injuries and later said he planned to "build orphanages, a children's hospital, and medical and orthopedic centers offering free treatment and manned by Iraqi doctors and medical staff.<div class="blogger-post-footer">theatre, arvind gaur, rashi bunny ,indian theatre,lushin dubey, girish karnad, mahesh dattani,delhi theatre, bitter chocolate, theatre workshop, india habitat centre </div>Asmita Theatre Grouphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08413867792575306783noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12717381.post-14415462179871536782011-10-21T16:56:00.000-07:002011-10-21T16:59:26.131-07:00Swadesh Deepak's COURT MARTIAL on 23rd Sept at SSS JNU by Arvind GaurSwadesh Deepak's play Court Martial <br />directed by Arvind Gaur <br />at SSS, JNU on 23rd Sept. 2011 at 9:00pm.<br />Actors- Deepak Ochaney, Bajrang Bali Singh, Viren Basoya, Shilpi Marwaha, Shiv Chauhan, Malay Garg, Gaurav Mishra, Rahul Khanna, Himanshu Maggu, Narendra Thakur, Ishwak Singh, Suraj Singh, Manu Chaudhary, Pankaj Shandilya, Manoj Yadav, Preadeep Awasthi, Sachin Saxena, Tarun kumar, Punkaj Datta, Amit Dhaiya, Kumar Vaibhav, Palak... Bhutani, Abhishek Pandey, and Others...<div class="blogger-post-footer">theatre, arvind gaur, rashi bunny ,indian theatre,lushin dubey, girish karnad, mahesh dattani,delhi theatre, bitter chocolate, theatre workshop, india habitat centre </div>Asmita Theatre Grouphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08413867792575306783noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12717381.post-36689594675027217022011-10-21T16:48:00.000-07:002018-02-20T10:34:40.914-08:00Bertolt Brecht 's "Ramkali" on 18th sept 2011 at 7 pm at SRC Directed by AG<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Bertolt Brecht 's "Ramkali" Adaptation of Bertolt Brecht 's play - "The Good Person of Szechwan" Adapted in Hindi By Amitabh Srivastava,Lyrics By Piyush Mishra, Music by Dr.Sangeeta Gaur 18th Sept, 7:00pm At Sri Ram Centre, Safdar Hashmi Marg, Mandi House, New Delhi.<br />
About play Ramkali-...It raises core issues facing today’s world, of greed versus common good, of the value of right and wrong, ...of the pressures society puts on pe...ople which drive them to committing wrongs to keep up with expectations, the exploitation of goodness and of good people by an aspiring society, and the question of equating theft and wrong doing out of need with that done out of greed.<br />
It is said that between the battle of wrong and right, it is truth that wins, yet ladies and gentlemen, the truth in this play is yet to be discovered… so if you think it has been some time since you’ve done a good deed, think again… maybe not. May be we all have been Ramkali, doing “the right thing’ in the wrong place or vice versa ! Still having second thoughts? -<br />
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To those born later-<br />
You who will emerge from the flood<br />
Which we have gone under.<br />
Remember When you speak of our failings<br />
The dark time too Which you have escaped.<br />
For we went, changing countries oftener than our shoes<br />
Through the wars of the classes,<br />
despairing When there was injustice only,<br />
and no rebellion.<br />
Think of us… - Brecht<br />
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Ashok Lal's -Ek Mamooli Aadmi" <br />
directed by Arvind Gaur<br />
17th sept at 7.00pm <br />
at Sri Ram Centre, Mandi House, New delhi<br />
Actors- Viren Basoya,Bajrang Bali Singh,Shiv Chauhan,Malay Garg,,Saurab pal,Rahul Khanna,Gaurav Mishra,Himansu Maggu,Himansu katara,Palak Bhutani,Anish,Pankaj Dutta,Suraj SinghAbhisek Pandey,mannu Chudhary,Narendra Thakur,pankaj Sandilyaa,Pradip Awasthi,Sachin Sexena,Tarun Kumar,Vartika Tiwari...<br />
Mu...sic by Dr. Sangeeta Gaur<br />
About the play- Ek Mamooli Aadmi' underlines those features of an urban middle class setting which make the yearning for real happiness an agonizing experience. The play also accentuates the contours of a system in which even biological relations are bound to breed loneliness and family becomes fatal to an individual.<br />
Ishwar Chand Awasthi, the protagonist, is to die soon and this fact makes him realise that it was not life that he led so far, it was death, unnoticed and unannounced. The perception of this death animates him and he turns to be the source of others' happiness- an extraordinary asset to life and society.<br />
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Director's Note<br />
For Asmita Theatre, a new production has always been a part of a process – a fresh chance to react within ourselves and our society, to explore new dimensions in theatre – our choice of socially relevant themes being an extension of this goal. 'Ek Mamooli Aadmi' started off as an exercise to explore ways of using time and space to convey the underlying theme.<br />
During this process we discovered various aspects of our society as it stands today, under the shadow of a consumerist culture, where the base of many a relationship is superficial and the individual is often left with a feeling of loneliness and existential angst- yet often indifferent and unwilling to make a change.<br />
As this play exposes the political and social attitudes and priorities of our society on a smaller canvas such as that of the family and workplace, my actors were involved in an intensive process of looking at their immediate world both inner and outer, with a fresh perspective.<br />
Many a moment in 'Ek Mamooli Aadmi' rose out of much debate and discussion. I hope that this play makes relevant and positive contribution – as t has to us and puts forth a fresh set of questions that we may ask of our society and ourselves<br />
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Reviews<br />
'Ek Mamooli Aadmi' is one more milestone in Asmita's engaging repertoire of meaningful theatre.<br />
-Nikhat Kazmi (Times of India)<br />
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Meaningful production.. .Another feather in the cap of a young director Arvind Gaur.<br />
-Kavita Nagpal (H T)<br />
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'Ek Mamooli Aadmi' is an excellent play with a lot of humou , lot of life's reality<br />
-Smita Nirula (Pioneer)<br />
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The play is built around the protagonist Umesh's curiosity to find out why Brahmins had refused to participate in his father's 'tehrvi' ... production is excellent... innovative...<br />
-Romesh Chander (Hindu)<br />
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Written by Ashok Lal and directed by Arvind Gaur (अरविन्द गौड़), the play is a deeply moving description of the travails of a middle-aged clerk who knows of his impending death. Reserved, reclusive and politically correct Ishwar Chand, decides to do some unusual things before dying. The acts are not a result of angst or deeds of rebellion, Ishwar just wants to savour another life, paint a new picture of himself for his own viewing. His escape from reality is a challenge to that very reality. Death becomes a motivation for pleasure; he wants to please others, see others happy, and make others fulfilled<br />
- Indian Express</div>
<div class="blogger-post-footer">theatre, arvind gaur, rashi bunny ,indian theatre,lushin dubey, girish karnad, mahesh dattani,delhi theatre, bitter chocolate, theatre workshop, india habitat centre </div>Asmita Theatre Grouphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08413867792575306783noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12717381.post-60771478090111512692011-10-21T16:41:00.000-07:002011-10-21T16:43:41.364-07:00Rajesh Kumar's "Ambedkar AUR Gandhi" directed by Arvind Gaur on 15th septAsmita theatre group Presents an Invitation show of Rajesh Kumar's "Ambedkar AUR Gandhi" directed by Arvind Gaur on 15th september 2011 at 7pm at Sri Ram Centre, Mandi House. plz collect ur passes from Sri RaM centre's Ticket counter(free) from 12th Sep. between 11 am to 5 pm.<br /><br />ACTORS- Bajrang Bali Singh ,Viren Basoya,Shilpi Marwaha,Shiv Chauhan,Saurabh Pal,Malay Garg,Palak Bhutani ,Gaurav Mishra, Rahul Khanna,Suraj Singh,Himan...su Maggo,Ishwak Singh,Himansu Katara,Pankaj Datta,Kakoli Gaur, Saveree Gaur,Manu Chaudhary,Vartika Tiwari,Anish Kumar,Sachin Sexena,Pankaj Sandilya,Kumar Vaibhav,Amit Dahiya,Pradeep Awasthi,Bhavdeep Singh,Manoj Yadav,Mayank Pandey,Anamika Singh, Smita Lal,Rahul Srivastava,Rohit Vaid,Vineet Kumar,Shivani Sinha,Vivak Sharma,Harsh,Asish Sejwal,Tarun Kumar,Narendra Thakur<br /><br />Credits-<br />Poems- Avataar Singh Paash (पाश ),Shankar Shailendra ,Bhupen Hazarika,Bob Dylan<br />Music by Dr.Sangeeta Gaur<br />musicians - Sandy , Anil Mishra & Mohit Sharma<br />Group Incharge ; Viren Basoya<br />Production : Saurabh, Shiv,Rahul,Gaurav & himanshu<br />Photos- Monica Dawar,Abhinay sharma, S.Nishol,Manoj Roi<div class="blogger-post-footer">theatre, arvind gaur, rashi bunny ,indian theatre,lushin dubey, girish karnad, mahesh dattani,delhi theatre, bitter chocolate, theatre workshop, india habitat centre </div>Asmita Theatre Grouphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08413867792575306783noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12717381.post-9686588611117568672011-10-21T16:33:00.000-07:002011-10-21T16:36:45.155-07:00Street play "Dastak" by Asmita Theatre at Speranza, IIT Delhi on 9thSeptStreet play "DASTAK" <br />directed by Arvind Gaur<br />Performed by Asmita Theatre Group <br />on 9th September at 6pm <br />at Speranza, IIT Delhi <br />at Great India Place, Sector 18,Noida.<br />"DASTAK"- Talks about violence against women at public places.Why women in the national capital of Delhi feel unsafe in many public spaces, and at all times of the day and night. Cutting across class, profession, they face continuous and different forms of sexual harassment in crowded as w...ell as secluded places, including public transport, cars, markets, roads, public toilets and parks. School and college students are... most vulnerable to harassment, particularly rampant in public transport, particularly buses.<br /><br />Actors:Shilpi Marwaha,Shiv Chauhan,Saurabh Pal,Malay Garg,Palak Bhutani ,Gaurav Mishra, Rahul Khanna,Suraj Singh,Himansu Maggo,Ishwak Singh,Pankaj Datta,Kakoli Gaur, Saveree Gaur,Manu Chaudhary,Vartika Tiwari,Anish Kumar,Sachin Sexena,Kumar Vaibhav,Amit Dahiya,Pradeep Awasthi,Bhavdeep Singh,Manoj Yadav,Mayank Pandey,Anamika Singh, Smita Lal,Rahul Srivastava,Rohit Vaid,Vineet Kumar,Shivani Sinha,Vivak Sharma,Harsh,Ashish Sejwal,Tarun Kumar,Narendra Thakur,Kunal,Tushar,prabhakar<div class="blogger-post-footer">theatre, arvind gaur, rashi bunny ,indian theatre,lushin dubey, girish karnad, mahesh dattani,delhi theatre, bitter chocolate, theatre workshop, india habitat centre </div>Asmita Theatre Grouphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08413867792575306783noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12717381.post-36610149725398557732011-10-21T16:31:00.000-07:002011-10-21T16:33:14.173-07:00Bhrastachar street play in Vivek Vihar on 4th Sept 2011Bhrastachar street play <br />on Ganesh Utsav at Vivek Vihar.<br />The Play Directed by Arvind Gaur.<br />Performed by Asmita Theatre Group Actors.<br />Actors:Shilpi Marwaha,Shiv Chauhan,Saurabh Pal,Malay Garg,Palak Bhutani ,Gaurav Mishra, Rahul Khanna,Suraj Singh,Himansu Maggo,Ishwak Singh,Pankaj Datta,Kakoli Gaur, Saveree Gaur,Manu Chaudhary,Vartika Tiwari,Anish Kumar,Sachin Sexena,Kumar Vaibhav,Amit Dahiya,Pradeep Awasthi,Bhavdeep Singh,Manoj Yadav,Mayank Pandey,Anamika Singh, Smita Lal,Rahul Srivastava,Rohit Vaid,Vineet Kumar,Shivani Sinha,Vivak Sharma,Harsh,Ashish Sejwal,Tarun Kumar,Narendra Thakur,Kunal,Tushar,prabhakar<br />For Details: Please Contact 09540656537(shilpi Marwaha)<div class="blogger-post-footer">theatre, arvind gaur, rashi bunny ,indian theatre,lushin dubey, girish karnad, mahesh dattani,delhi theatre, bitter chocolate, theatre workshop, india habitat centre </div>Asmita Theatre Grouphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08413867792575306783noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12717381.post-29350817525856810642011-10-21T16:25:00.000-07:002011-10-21T16:30:39.629-07:00The Last Salute in Chandigarh on 18th AugustThe Last Salute in Chandigarh on 18th August<br />written by Rajesh Kumar<br />produced by Mahesh Bhatt<br />directed by Arvind Gaur<br />Starring- Imran Zahid<div class="blogger-post-footer">theatre, arvind gaur, rashi bunny ,indian theatre,lushin dubey, girish karnad, mahesh dattani,delhi theatre, bitter chocolate, theatre workshop, india habitat centre </div>Asmita Theatre Grouphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08413867792575306783noreply@blogger.com0