Mar 27 2022 to Mar 27 2022 5 p.m.

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Where

Alliance Française de Bangalore

Thimmaiah Rd, opposite UNI, Kaverappa Layout, Vasanth Nagar 560052

Event Description

The play is a peculiar love story of a husband and wife and their playful conflicts on silly and littlest of things; thereby outlining the mischief, liveliness and honesty in their relationship. The script is cleverly poised for humour and well adorns the simplicity of both the characters.

The play is written by Kiran Potrekar and translated into Hindi by Raja Bagban, directed by Zafer Mohiuddin.

The actors are Ankit Tripathi as Pradeep and Dr Kavita as Madhvi.

World Theatre Day celebrates the essence, exquisiteness, and significance of theatre arts and the role it has played not only in the field of entertainment but in upliftment of society, culture and economic development. It is marked by conducting various national and international theatre events annually.

Zafer Mohiuddin

Zafer Mohiuddin is an architect, Urdu & Hindi Playwright, an established and seasoned actor par excellence, a multi-faceted and multitalented director along with being an activist.  He has been actively involved in theatre since 1979 and has worked extensively with many well-known theatre groups such as Samudaya, Bangalore Little Theatre, Manch and so on.  He formed his very own theatre group, “Kathputliyaan Theatre Group” with the main purpose of promoting Indian theatre, art, music and literature.  His passion towards theatre started when he was a student and he has also been a voice-over artist rendering his baritone voice to many advertisements, documentaries, and animated films.  His interest in various things has made him a better director.

Zafer Mohiuddin has directed and acted in many plays and they are always have quality rather than quantity. He has also been part of “Bikhre Bimbh” with Ms Arundhati Nag. He has written dialogues for “Malgudi Days”. His current directorial piece is Dastak.

About Kathputliyaan Theatre Group:

Inspired by the words of William Shakespeare, “The world is a stage and all men and women are merely actors”, Bangalore-based architect, voice-over and theatre artiste, Zafer Mohiuddin conceptualized Kathputliyaan Theatre Group along with other trustees. This organization was formed in order to focus on addressing significant social issues that are a hindrance to the progress and peace in our society through the medium of theatre as well as promote Indian literature, Arts, Music, and Drama.

The first play of this group, ‘Darwaaze Kholdo,’ was staged in 1988 post which the group presented several Hindi and Urdu plays such as ‘Zabaan Mili Hai Magar,’ ‘Vaastu Chakkar,’ ‘Taj Mahal ka Tender,’ ‘Ek tha Gadha,’ ‘Daadh ka Dard,’ and many more, all of which played to packed houses.

Kathputliyaan embraced music and dance in its presentation encompassing the essence of performing arts and promoting it through runaway hits such as, ‘Zikr-e-Ghalib’, ‘Tipu Sultan ke Khwaab’ written by Girish Karnad; translated and directed by Zafer Mohiuddin, which again played to packed houses in India and abroad. ‘Shaadi ki Kirkiri,’ a play in Hyderabad's Deccani dialect based on the book ‘Merry Go Round’ by renowned author and playwright Sadiqa Peerbhoy, was again translated by Zafer Mohiuddin and directed by him.

The passion of the director is to continue encouraging arts and literature along with saving and restoring the beautiful world of theatre, art and music, thereby bringing the best of performances to the audience in India and abroad.

Venue: Alliance Francaise, Vasanth Nagar, Bangalore

Date: Sunday 27th of March 2022

Time: 5 – 7 PM

Entry is free

Language: Hindi

For info contact: 9448088247