Memoirs of Mumbai:- Theater festival at Prithvi Theater

Last week I went to theater festival at Prithvi Festival where the theater festival was being organised by the name of Sarkash by Jana Natya Manch.

On the first day TUMHARI AMRITHA was being held where there were only two actors Shabana Azmi and Farooq Sheikh   and what a brilliant performance it was by both. For the first time I saw such a performance where only two actors where there and the whole story came up  through letters. It was just brilliant and what the most I loved was the way voice modulation was used to explain the  nuances and as usual  Shabana Azmi was at her best. Really it was one of the most beautiful evening in Mumbai.

The next evening i again went to Prithvi Festival i went to see the play Ismat Aapa Ke Naam, where three stories where played ,Chui Mui, Mughal Bacha, Gharwali. All these plays where played by single person playing all the characters and it was just like I was reading a book where I become all the characters and it was a beautiful experience.

Naseeruddin Shah played in Gharwali and it was totally brilliant the way he depicted the characters and I was lucky to sit in the front seat and see the play and it was a experience which I cannot say in words it was that kind of experience and especially he played the character of girl and miran wow. Ratna Pathak who played Mughal Bacha was nothing less but Naseeruddin Shah overshadowed everyone.

It was the most beautiful weekend I spent in Mumbai and will always remember Mumbai for this weekend and what I like most was that  both the plays was in Hindusthani , a language which I heard after a long time and which is slowly vanishing.