On 5th of May 2009 ‘Aaja meri gadi main baith ja….’ A play inspired by the story ‘The hitchhiking game’ written by the Czech author MILAN KUNDERA in his collection ‘Laughable loves’ opened at Bharat Natya Mandir at 9 pm.
Produced by SAMANVAY,PUNE
Written by- Shashank Shende.
Directed by – Ashutosh Parandkar
Artist – Mayur Khandge and Aarti Wadagbalkar
Set Designed by - Ashutosh Parandkar
Lights Designed by – Harshawardhan Pathak
Music and sound designed by- Rohit Nagbhide
Sound operation- Prashant Kamble
Costumes by- Sonal Kharade
Costume asst.- Amruta Ghate.
Stage asst.- Amit Kiwalkar, Akshay Pawle, Swapnil Kulkarni, Tejas Dandgaval.
Poster Design- Tushar Tajane…EMstudioes
Production controller- Amit Kiwalkar.
contact-samanvay.pune@gmail.
Director's Note
It’s a vibrant world and effervescent era today. Everybody is striving hard to discover his or her own self and identity. It’s a heroic journey for individuals who are full of aspirations, expectations and dreams to prove themselves, to acquire fame and be successful. For this they need to cope with the pace of the world, get accustomed to dynamic norms and rules at socio economic cultural fronts. Everybody is trying very hard to sustain his or her image and individuality. Globalization, emerging business, and ample opportunities in various fields for careers have added the zest in the youth. The rapid and drastic changes in all sectors has changed even in the mindset, thinking abilities, approaches, attitude of individuals who have got a label of a ‘modern human being’.
People have started taking liberty to mould and even change norms and some of the so called ‘traditional values’ as per their convenience. All these changes have a strong influence human relationship. People are so engrossed in their own ivory towers & self created utopia that they don’t have time to come out of their shells and look at the charm of human relationships. They have started finding it monotonous, mechanical and even unnecessary. Everlasting crave to be at the top of the world has made them feel insecure and even timid. They choose to be introvert and avoid sharing with the life partner too as it makes them feel choked and dejected. The intrinsic conflicts, depression, suppression, guilt, affinity, expectations all these remain just sequential feelings for them. They experience it sometime very intensely and then they realize how far have they gone from each other and also realize the need to keep relations intact.
Aaja meri gadi main baith jaa represents a similar portrayal of a couple who has been experiencing all the ups and downs , pros and cons of the dynamic world, changed perceptions, attitudes and identity crisis.
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