Shweta Pendse and Girish Oak in a nonetheless from the play
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Mitramandal Bengaluru will current a Marathi play 38 Krushna Villa. The play, written by Shweta Pendse, is directed by Vijay Kenkare, produced by Mihir Gawali and has music composed by Ajit Parab.
Shweta says she cannot recall the particular second she determined to jot down 38 Krushna Villa, “Or the second when the concept was conceptualised in my thoughts. However I’d say it began a decade in the past, after I was learning about schizophrenia for one among my performs which revolved round a neuro surgeon affected by this dysfunction. The thought for 38 Krushna Villa got here into being whereas I used to be researching for that play,” says Shweta.
She additionally believes “writers are fairly merciless. They will see drama in each scenario. I can’t share a lot in regards to the central concept of 38 Krushna Villa or there will likely be no suspense left for the viewers to sit up for. However, it does revolve round two central characters and their human complexities from the begin to end.”
The play will characteristic Shewta and Girish Oak within the play which is “primarily based on literature and thriller,” says Sanjeev Keskar, former president and a committee member of Mitramandal. “Each Shwetha and Girish are common theatre artistes in Maharashtra. The play has been staged 200 instances already and the 201st present will likely be its debut in Bengaluru,” shares Sanjeev Keskar, ex president of Mritramandal.
38 Krushna Villa has gained many awards — Zee Natya Gaurav 2023 within the classes of greatest drama, greatest director, greatest actor (Girish), greatest music and greatest lights (Shital Talpade), Majha Puraskar’s (from ABP Majha channel) greatest author (Shweta) and greatest actor (Girish) to call a couple of.
Sanjeev shares a quick historical past about Mitramandal. “We’re a 40-year-old socio-cultural group, related to over 5,000 plus members from Marathi-speaking households primarily based in and round Indiranagar, Koramangala, Marathahalli, Whitefield to call a couple of. It was began by Rahul Dravid’s dad and mom, Pushpa and Sharad Dravid, as an area for informal get togethers for Marathi households in Bengaluru. Then, we began coming collectively for festivities and finally, with the IT growth in Bengaluru, there was an enormous inflow of Maharashtrians to town and we began organising many social and cultural occasions all through the yr. In actual fact, we even have a sports activities award within the title of Sharad Dravid, which is given away to promising sportsmen from Bengaluru.”
The actors with director Vijay Kenkare
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In regards to the play, says Sanjeev, “We can’t convey performs from Maharashtra on a regular basis as transporting the stage set and designs turns into tedious. Since we’ve got members from our affiliation who act and direct performs, we stage them in Bengaluru commonly,” says Sanjeev.
The play will likely be staged on February 4, 10am at New Horizon Engineering School Auditorium. Tickets on BookMyShow.
