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 The Telegraph - An attempt to revise the vision of fate |
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Who is responsible for human fate? With this question, playwright D. Vizai Bhaskar drags the audience from the traditional submission to culture to the revolutionary slogan of equality.
His play, Brahma Raatha (Brahma’s writ), translated by L. Bishwanath Sharma, directed by M.C. Thoiba and produced by Banian Repertory theatre, was staged on March 1 at Banian Repertory Hall to a limited audience, comprising a few critics and reviewers.
Human fate is shaped by a higher order but not freely or arbitrarily. Fate is determined by corruption in the higher order. The laymen have no choice, nor any option. Narada, the heavenly saint, questions the creator about the universe’s design of inequality. The basic principle of inequality cannot explain why the creator fails to build a human free from inequality.
The play shows the corruption that affect human fate. In the play, dead souls of politicians and administrators from earth arrive at Brahmaloka. They bribe the three divine astrologers, who write the fate of dead souls’ next life, to be reborn as powerful and rich as they were in their past lives. The deeds of the divine astrologers remain unknown to the supreme creator.
Narada finds a skull on the banks of Loktak Lake. On its forehead, it is inscribed that he would be a happy man afterwards. But not only is he a victim of extreme poverty but also a prey of a fake encounter. The skull is of Dalit leader Nanda. In Brahmaloka, there is a debate on the fate of rich and poor between Narada and Brahma. And, at last justice is delivered. Every human fate will not be decided by Brahma but by the individual’s own deeds.
The director creates the play with elements from Manipuri nat-sankritana, pung cholom and wariliba and creates a visual delight with excellent use of Hindu Manipuri traditional costumes.
Music plays an important role to make the play a perfect audio-visual experience and music director H. Shatananda deserves special mention. Proper make-up acted as a tool that allowed the audience to differentiate the characters placed in Bhuloka from the ones in Brahmaloka.
L. Tiken (Brahma), Ch. Basanta (Narada), H. Deban (superior), Ch. Victor (senior) and K. Nanao (junior) play their characters with superb panache.
The play will be staged in D. Vizai Bhaskar’s National Multilingual Drama Festival at Hyderabad on March 19.
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| Vizai Bhaskar’s plays to be staged from March 16 |
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‘Bahu Bhasha Natakotsav’, a multilingual drama festival of plays written by renowned playwright D Vizai Bhaskar will be held at Ravindra Bharati from March 16 to 19. Nine plays of Vizai Bhaskar, translated into different languages, Read more on www.marathitheatre.com
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| National Drama Festival Held |
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Written by Ushasri Ponnaganti
Tuesday, 07 April 2009
Chaitanya Art Theatres & Samaikya Bharathi in collaboration with Department of Culture, Government of Andhra Pradesh held the inaugural ceremony of Vizai Bhaskar’s ‘Bahu Bhasha Natakotsav’ on March 16th. The four-day festival featured nine plays of six time Nandi Award winning playwright D. Vizai Bhaskar (translated into different Indian languages) from March 16th to 19th 2009 at Ravindra Bharathi.
D. Vizai Bhaskar is a prominent Telugu playwright whose plays are already translated and being performed in other languages like Kannada, Malayalam, Hindi, etc. He has written more than 25 plays with different subjects depicting the social, political and cultural contemporariness. He is bestowed with ‘Sahitya Puraskar’ for his drama ‘Ruthwik’ by the Potti Sreeramulu Telugu University and is also the winner of the ‘Nandi Award’ five times (for his scripts) given by Government of Andhra Pradesh.
The plays held at the festival were ‘Mahatma Jyothirao Phule’, ‘Kurchi’ ‘Zindagi Ka Khel (Jeevannatakam)’, ‘Minister’, ‘Bommalu Cheppina Bhajagovindam’, ‘Visha Vruksha (Kalakutam)’, ‘Kinchith Bhoga - (Kinchithbhogam)’, ‘Gandhi Jayanti’, ‘Brahmagi Yathang Che (Brahmarata)’, ‘Modida Gombe (Mabbullo Bomma)’.
Month: April 2009
Last Updated ( Tuesday, 12 May 2009 )
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| Vizai Bhaskar’s Bahu Bhasha Natakotsav |
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Chaitanya Art Theatres and Samaikya Bharathi, reputed cultural and social organisations established to promote art and culture are to organise Vizai Bhaskar's Bahu Bhasha Natakotsav, a multi-lingual national drama festival here in Hyderabad at Ravindra Bharathi. The Four-day festival features nine plays (originally in Telugu) of renowned playwright and five times Nandi Award winner Sri D. Vizai Bhaskar translated into different Indian languages viz. Bengali, Hindi, Tamil, Marathi, Malayalam, Gujarati, Manipuri and Kannada. They plays will be staged over four days starting from 16th March at Ravindra Bharathi, Hyderabad. |
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