Roop Aroop
2nd March 2010 at Sri Ram Centre, 5:00pm
Producer: Shabdaakaar Art and Cultural Society
Director: Tripurari Sharma
Language: Hindi
Duration: 1 Hour 10 Minutes
This play has the popular performing tradition of “NAUTANKI” as its backdrop. Till a few years ago (and in some parts even today) men adorn the female persona which is passed on from generation to generation. However, towards the middle of the previous century women set foot on this stage. Most of them were from the “BEDIN” community who are singers and dancers by caste and birth. They perform in festivals and occasions like marriage.The stage was a distant dream, it meant dignity as performer. The tussle between the accomplished male actor and the aspiring woman entrails could not have been an easy one. This is an attempt by two young actors to explore some human dimensions of this phenomenon. The man may exit but the popular female persona continues to persist.
Director’s Note:
The male actor must give up his place where the woman steps on the stage to stake her claim to the space hitherto denied to her. Reality invades the notional, non real and the crafted world of image. An era is started in to the truth and inevitability of its closure. The struggle to perpetuate its creative span weaves a yarn of many shades. Transience prevails and each one of us must yield, almost as if to the compulsion of death as it which overtakes life in the ultimate chain of recycle. Yet undeniably the pain of displacement is real. Roop Aroop is about that moment that shifts a fleeting span of creative glimpse that nevertheless leaves its mark on times that ensue. It was the team from my earlier play Rangdhuli that inspired and lead to the creation of Roop Aroop.
On Stage:
Happy Ranajit
Gauri Dewal
NOMINEES:
Best Actor-Male: HAPPY RANAJIT
Happy Ranajit
An actor and director, Happy completed his masters in Dramatic Arts from NSD in 2008. He worked with various eminent theatre persons like Ram Gopal Bajaj, Amal Allana, Anuradha Kapur, Anamika Haksar, Abhilash Pillai, Robin Das, D.R. Ankur and others. He has directed plays such as Romeo Juliet, Cigarettes, In Search of Shakespear, The Dark Night, Deewarien and Cigarettes.
