Andhayug - 2016
Playwright - Dharamvir Bharati
Direction - Kiran Pavaskar
Cast
Ashwathama- Saurabh Thakare Dritarashtra- Sameer Ramteke Gandhari- Saachi Jiwane
Kriparcharya and Prahari 1 – Ajinkya Ovhal Kritavarma and Prahari 2- Shubham Rai Krishna and Shankar- Mayank Patel
Sanjay- Anuj Prabhu Vidur- Rohan Anand
Crew
Music Composition - Rohit Verma
Violin - Margherita Marincola
Djembe - Krishna Navale
Harmonium- Devandra Patel
Vocals - Kajol Muskan, Pravin Madke Bhausaheb Sonawane Pravin Pandey
Light design - Saurabh Thakare
Light operation - Priyapal
Costume Design- Kajol Muskan and Kiran Pavaskar
Set design- Kiran Pavaskar
Music operation - Shubham Jite
Photography - Nikhil Kamble and Debjyoti Bardhan
Make-up - Ulesh Khandare and Sanidhya Technical Superintendent - Hemant Wagh Production In charge – Smt. Sandhya Rayate
Design and Direction- Kiran Pavaskar
Acknowledgement
Prof. Dr.Mangesh Bansod (I/C Director, Academy of Theatre Arts University of Mumbai)
Special Thanks
Mr. Shafaat Khan, Bijon Mondal
Dr. Amol Deshmukh, Milind Inamdar
Andha Yug is a 1954 verse play written in Hindi, by renowned novelist, poet, and playwright Dharamvir Bharati . It is one of the most significant plays of modern India. Set in the last day of the
Great Mahabharat war, the five-act tragedy was written in the years following the 1947 partition of India, as an allegory to its destruction of human lives and ethical values. The moral burden of the play is that every act of violence inevitably debases society as a whole. It is a metaphoric meditation on the politics of violence and aggressive selfhood and that war dehumanized individuals and society. Thus both the victor and the vanquished lose eventually.
Our attempt was to deconstruct the play to highlight the absurdity of emotions and situations without losing the original context. Symbolism, Absurdism, Existential Overview aresome of the points highlighted through distorted images, movements, visuals and live music in a novel version of yet another Andhayug.