Nov 08 2024 to Nov 08 2024 7 p.m.

Where

Shoonya - Centre for Art and Somatic Practices

4th Floor, Rear Wing, Brahmananda Court, 37, Lal Bagh Main Road 560027

Event Description

90 mins | English & Hindi

A college romance slowly takes a turn for something complicated and traumatic.

A young live-in couple begins to realize that maybe love isn’t all that you need
to build a home with someone.

Doubt, deceit, and the past come to haunt a marriage that is struggling to survive.

An anthology of 3 stories about 3 couples, ‘The End’ uses text, movement, music, and memory to understand what we look for in romance and relationships when the odds are stacked against us, when love starts making way for loss, and questions about desire and the need for control start popping up. How does one unlearn societal norms and expectations to build relationships that are authentic, nurturing, and filled with love still?

We meet these 3 couples near what they think is the end of their (love) stories.

But is it, really, The End?

Credits:

Design & Direction: Nikhita Singh

Writers: Nikhita Singh, Mitali Kalagi, Sambita De

Cast: Mitali Kalagi, Rituparna Sanyal, Kaustav Sinha, Aditya Kashyap

Movement Director: Babusha Jain

Music: Hashparker (Harsh Choudhary)

Lyrics & Poetry: Madhumoy Satpathy

Assistant Director: Rituparna Sanyal

Production Manager & Photographer: Divyansh Thada

Production Assistant: Sambita De

Costume Design: Simran Jagdale

Set Design: Nikhita Singh, Rituparna Sanyal, Vivek Jadhav

Light Design: Nikhita Singh, Rahul Kumar

Poster Design: Vighnesh Kharadkar, Debosmita Mazumdar

Social Media Design: Tanya Vaghela

Social Media Planning & Strategy: Divya Sundrani

Marketing & Publicity: Dheeraj Dubey

Creative Director for Visual Promos: Omkar Phatak

Outreach & Brand Advocacy Partner: Centre for Contemporary Folklore

Supported by Tamaasha Studio Foundation’s UsPaar Residency.

This is a BIC Elsewhere Event.

While the majority of our events find a home at our premises in Domlur, BIC Elsewhere represents our commitment to bringing conversations, arts, and culture directly to diverse audiences. Through this initiative, we collaborate with various venues, extending the reach of our events beyond our own space. These partnerships not only breathe life into our gatherings but also play a crucial role in cultivating an environment for the flourishing of arts and culture in the city.

Performers
Nikhita Singh
Director, Designer, Co-Writer & Producer

Playwright, Screenwriter, and Director – Nikhita works across theatre, film, and digital media. She’s the Founder of Parwana Theatre.

Her portfolio ranges from script development for Arpana & Prithvi Theatres’ Deewar, a short play titled Crime of Passion in Tamaasha Theatre’s Be-loved, to podcasts, animation, and digital learning modules for Chambal Media and Khabar Lahariya.

She’s been a Senior Researcher with BBC Studios for their true-crime documentary series, Wedding.Con, and researched, written, and produced SRHR info-tainment content for Girl Effect India’s Chhaa Jaa.

She holds an M.A. in Media & Cultural Studies from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences.
Mitali Kalagi
Actor & Co-Writer

Mitali is an Actor, Playwright, Screenwriter, and Voice-Over Artist based in Bombay.

She has worked as an Actor in theatre productions directed by Himani Shivpuri, Ranjeet Kapoor and Vijay Kenkare, and wrote, directed, and acted in a play called The Two Of Us on Nine Rasa, an OTT platform by Shreyas Talpade. She was part of the webseries Ek Thi Begum and The Bestseller She Wrote, and the short film Chuski! which has over a million views on Youtube.

As a Screenwriter, she has worked for Storytel, a digital storytelling platform, and been Assistant Writer for a Marathi daily soap on Sun TV Marathi.
Rituparna Sanyal
Actor & Assistant Director

Rituparna is an Actor and Theatre Practitioner. She has trained & worked with Natakvalas Performance Arts, Bangalore, as an actor as well as in the production team. She has organised and performed in spaces like Jyoti Nivas College, Bangalore International Center and Kalagrah.

She has acted in plays like Red Oleanders, Golgappe Shappe, Locked Down, and Nishkasit, and appeared in Digital Ads for CultFit, Bigbasket, Nihar Diamonds, etc. She has acted in A Fragmented Wave, a short film created at FTII, and Dharma Production’s Mr & Mrs Mahi.

She holds a B.Tech degree in Electrical & Electronics Engineering.
Kaustav Sinha
Actor

Kaustav is an Engineer turned Theatre Practioner, from West Bengal. Having graduated from The Drama School, Mumbai in 2016, he has acted in over 35 theatre productions across Delhi and Mumbai, with directors like Mahesh Dattani, Sunil Shanbag, Neel Chaudhari, Faezeh Jalali, Shenna Gamat, Purva Naresh amongst others. Kaustav was briefly associated with a musical in Kingdom of Dreams, Gurgaon and an Improv group, Cueless Improv in Delhi. His theatre practices extend into conducting workshops for children, young adults and corporates.

Apart from theatre, Kaustav has been seen in more than a dozen TV commercials, web shows, and feature films.

 
Aditya Kashyap
Actor

Aditya Kashyap is an actor, writer, and director. Trained at Wild Rice Theatre, Singapore, he has done numerous plays in Singapore and India. His production house ‘Spicy9s’ does improvised, immersive and interactive theatre. He was also the lead in the award winning short film ‘Mera Bhai’.