Aao Saathi Sapna Dekhein
28th February, SRI RAM CENTRE, 7:30 pm
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Produced by: Actors’ Cult Production Language: Hindi Duration: 2 Hours 15 Minutes (including interval) |
As somebody said…
Life is a celebration.
So let’s celebrate…
Our dreams and our realities,
Our happiness and our sorrow,
Our togetherness and our loneliness,
Our success and our failure,
Our frustration and our excitement,
Our madness and our sanity…
For me theatre, because it is dynamic and frenetic as it makes use of living instruments, continues to stir up shadows and emotional nuances. My theatre uses everything – singing, gestures, sounds, words, screams, light, darkness and rediscovers itself in the most naked manifestations of human emotions. And these emotions never fail to cascade into the audience which experiences them as a reflection of their own life, their own dreams. An emotional intimacy, the collective nostalgia is what one achieves through creating an energetic, lively theatre where laughter and pain, song and dance, cries and whispers all are whipped up on stage in their purest most visceral form. This play is a tribute to the inner hum which is present in every living being.
SYNOPSIS
Aao Saathi Sapna Dekhein is a musical set in the Chandni Chowk area of Old Delhi. It is a love story of a boy (Baiju Khan), and a girl (Gauraiya), the events of which are planned by their respective fathers’ (Miya Khan and Chironji Lal Gupta). However, soon things begin to take their own course. The story is told by a narrator (Bahumukhi) and his assistant (Sur, a mute). The play unfolds like a dream, that magical time all of us have experienced in our youth: those days of listless abandon, that mad pursuit for love.
NOMINEES
Best Director: Swanand Kirkire
Swanand has worked with many theatre groups in his hometown Indore, like Aradhana, Kalaniketan, Fankar & Drama Factory. He graduated in Design and Direction from National School of Drama N. Delhi. He has collaborated in films like Hazaron Khwaishen Aisi, Parineeta, Lage raho Munna bhai, Eklavya, Khoya Khoya Chand.He has worked in various creative aspects of film making including screenplay writing, dialogues, and lyrics, singing and even acting. He went on to win several prestigious awards including a National award for Best Lyrics for Lage raho Munna bhai.
Best Ensemble
Actors’ Cult is a platform for anyone who believes that theatre is a practicing art form and provides a space for those who are passionately attached to theatre. Our aim is to continually challenge ourselves as theatre practitioners and to push the boundaries of our creative aspirations. Our strength lies in our ability to contribute beyond our specific portfolios when working on a production and it is this freedom, which makes the process of creating every play a memorable experience. We started our journey on 4th October 2004 and have managed to do one project annually.
Best Sound Design: Sneha Khanwalkar
Sneha hails from a family of vocalists of Gwalior Gharana in Indore. She shifted to Mumbai and started working as a freelance music director. She has worked as an independent music director in films, serials & documentaries and has given music for films like Oye Lucky Lucky Oye!, Kal Yesterday and Tomorrow - Title song and Background score.
