Archives for: 2009

Photos of the 2009 Awards ceremony at the Taj Hotel, New Delhi.

28th February, SRI RAM CENTRE, 7:30 pm

Produced by: Actors’ Cult Production
Language: Hindi
Duration: 2 Hours 15 Minutes (including interval)

DIRECTOR’S NOTE
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 [...]

3RD March, KAMANI AUDITORIUM, 7:30 pm

Produced by: Akvarious Productions
Language: Hindi
Duration: 1 Hour 15 Minutes

DIRECTOR’S NOTE
Being a writer myself, I’m programmed to strongly believe that content is king. As a producer and director, I usually select plays on the basis of strong narratives. That is, stories worth telling. When I first read this script, the era, [...]

4TH March, SRI RAM CENTRE, 4:30 pm

Produced by: Akvarious Productions
Language: English
Duration: 2 Hours (including interval)

DIRECTOR’S NOTEI selected this play because I found the form very interesting. The idea of having five different stories which are interconnected but don’t necessarily follow a linear pattern was intriguing and challenging. While directing All About Women the main focus [...]

2ND March, SRI RAM CENTRE, 4:30 pm

Produced by: Ravivarma Kalanilayam
Language: Malayalam
Duration: 1 Hour 50 Minutes

DIRECTOR’S NOTE
Three generations…
Son, Father, Grandfather…
Among them there is one Yohannan…
What is sin…? It has to be begun from the Bible itself.   It can only be begun but it is varied in the eyes of religion, individual, time and space. Yet they all are one and [...]

4TH March, KAMANI AUDITORIUM, 7:30 pm

Produced by: The Company Theatre
Language: English & Gibberish
Duration: 1 Hour 40 Minutes

DIRECTOR’S NOTE
This play is a search in the world of Hamlet through the eyes of Clowns. The clown has fascinated me for many years and this motif appears again and again in all my work including my film work. [...]

3rd March, SRI RAM CENTRE, 4:30pm

Produced by: Sopanam
Language: Malayalam
Duration: 1 Hour 30 Minutes

DIRECTOR’S NOTE
A play based on the famous Kathakali story “Nalacharitham” – an interpretative extension of the puranic theme, which focuses on the life experience of an actor who is known for his role of Kali. In the epic theme, King Nala is the [...]

2ND March, KAMANI AUDITORIUM, 7:30 pm

Produced by: Shabdaakaar
Language: Urdu
Duration: 2 Hours 35 Minutes (including interval)

DIRECTOR’S NOTE
Following a Greco- Sanskrit style, (if we can call it so), Layla Majnun is an amalgam of the ideas of the playwright, the director and all the participants. It not only talks about the love between Layla and Majnun , but [...]

5TH March, SRI RAM CENTRE, 4:30 pm

Produced by: Seagull Theatre
Language: Hindi & Assamese
Duration: 1 Hour 15 Minutes

DIRECTOR’S NOTE
My play production tries to discover the complexities of the situations in the story , after a careful understanding of the same by the production team. If anyone reads Tagore, his or her perspective in life changes.With time [...]

5TH March, KAMANI AUDITORIUM, 7:30 pm

Produced by: aRANYA
Language: Hindi
Duration: 1 Hour 10 Minutes

DIRECTOR’S NOTE
A director’s note for my version of Shakkar Ke Paanch Daane… I don’t have too much to say in it. Unless I admit that the director, for most parts, was following the writer’s dictates.
I’ve become aware that in most of my [...]

1st March, SRI RAM CENTRE, 7:30 pm

Produced by: Thresh
Language: English & French
Duration: 1 Hour 10 Minutes

DIRECTOR’S NOTE
The Absent Lover is a play in which the search for the lover is both literal and metaphorical. While we each seek the ‘right’ lover in our life’s journey, we encounter many relationships, some fulfilled, and some not.  Each [...]