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Date: Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 1:32 AM
Subject: Aasakta Theatre Festival, Bangalore (13-16 August) - Grab the tickets
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LEGITIMATE HOOEY - English - 65 min
Adapted by Sagar Deshmukh
Directed by Mohit Takalkar
Synopsis:
The play reveals 15 nights in the life of a modern-day young urban couple Nilu and Anju. When Nilu and Anju manage to escape their annoying roommate Radha and get their own flat, the couple is overjoyed. Anju is a working woman and works for a leading boutique in the city whereas Nilu is a playwright without much success. 


This light veined play examines the age-old questions couples must face every day: Is it better to tell love stories to each other, or just watch TV? Should men be forced to go to for shopping? Should the fan be on even though it makes an annoying sound? Does love really exists or is it just a big reasonable nonsense?



GARBO - Marathi- 105 mins
Playwright - Mahesh Elkunchwar
Director - Mohit Takalkar
Synopsis:
Garbo is about the class of ‘young people’ living aimlessly with frustration of shattered dreams, the diffusion of mediocrity, and the burden of inhibitions. A play about the generation which breaks out into defiance of living out their own lives with non-conformism for a credo; throwing up in the process a small minority culture, containing within itself its own seeds of destruction.


The drama in Garbo grows out of a claustrophobic real-life situation pushed to the limits of endurance, burgeoning into a surreal holy dream that is too unreal and brittle to stand the test.

TU - Marathi - 120 min including a 10 min interval


Playwright - Satee Bhave
Director - Mohit Takalkar
Based on the verses of Sufi Saint Jelaluddin Rumi
Synopsis:
This is a story of The Man, The Woman, The King, The Fakir and The Storyteller.The story begins with the parting of the man and the woman, who are immensely in love with each other. Their intense love is smothering them, leading them to part in the quest for self. Both meet the fakir. She, during her journey through her mind and He in the outside world. They see pure love through Fakir’s mind. Each one seeks to complete each one’s story. The King falls in love with The Woman. 


They have all realized that they are far away from true love. They are all seeking the true experience of love with their entire being. Each one finds one’s true self by looking in The Fakir’s heart. Telling his story will liberate the storyteller.



BEDKE NEECHE REHNEWALI - Hindi Children's play for 10 yrs & above - 85 mins
Adapted by- Sagar Deshmukh & Jitendra Joshi
Directed by- Mohit Takalkar

Synopsis:
As a child, Ira had an invisible friend named Manu, who lived under her bed. At night Ira and Manu shared secrets, made promises, and confided in each other. Then one day Ira grew up and stopped believing in her invisible friend. This children's play opens with Manu crawling out from beneath Ira's bed. Manu wants to know; after all they have been through together, why Ira stopped believing in her. Anyone who has ever had an invisible friend as a child is sure to enjoy this whimsical one act comedy for young people.



Performed at: 
National School of Drama’s Bharat Rang Mahotsav, 2007 & 2009(New Delhi)
Bikalpa Theatre Festival, 2008 (New Delhi)
Mahindra Excellence in Theatre Awards, 2008 & 2009 (New Delhi)


Best play at ZEE GAURAV PURASKAR, 2008
Prithvi Theatre Festival. 2009
Best play at the State Drama Competition, 2007
Cairo International Festival for Experimental Theatre, 2008



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