Oct 16 2024 to Oct 16 2024 7 p.m.

Where

Bangalore International Centre

7 4th Main Rd, Stage 2, Domlur 560071

Event Description

90 Minutes | Hindi (Tukaram abhangs will be sung in Marathi) | Ages 16 years +

This play is an adaptation of the seminal Marathi novel ‘Anandowari’ written by D.B. Mokashi in 1974. Anandowari (English translation: ‘The Verandah of Bliss’) looks at 17th-century saint poet Tukaram’s story through his younger brother Kanha’s perspective.

Tukaram has gone missing again. This time, though, the hints seem ominous. We travel through those 3 days of Kanha’s frantic search for Tuka and his many realisations about his brother. In reminiscing about Tukaram, Kanha tries to grapple with Tuka’s many identities: Tuka his brother, the son, the householder, the creative genius, a saint, a reformer, a rebel. This act of reminiscence becomes an act of grappling with what and who he has lost, in the process giving us a great psychological insight into the events (personal, social and political) and impulses that shaped Tukaram’s consciousness and made him who he was: one of the most beloved Bhakti saint poets of Maharashtra, as tender as he was fierce, as compassionate as he was unforgivingly harsh, as much a reformist as he was a transcendentalist.

Our adaptation focuses on the search that lies at the heart of the text: a devotee in search of God, a man in search of his brother, a writer in search of the poet Tukaram.

Credits: Original Novel Anandowari by D.B Mokashi

Adaptation and Direction: Gerish Khemani

Hindi Translation: Dr Jaya Dayal

Performed by: Varad Salvekar, Hrishabh Kanti

Background Score: Ruturaj Bhosle Abhang

Composition: Keshav Kudale

Light Design: Sachin Lele

Lights Operation: Prerana

Poster and Creatives: Robin Patel