15th Bharat Rang Mahotsav - An International Theatre Festival in Delhi is starting today || 5th Jan 2013

Bharat Rang Mahotsav, BHARANGAM, is the annual theatre festival of National School of Drama (NSD), New Delhi, India's premier theatre training institute of Govt. of India. Originally founded to show case, works of Indian theatre practitioners, over the year it has grown to attract international performers as well.Let's check out this Photo Journey to know which plays are happening in 2013.

 Here are the play details to be showcased this year :

 Atmakatha
Playwright: Mahesh Elkunchwar
Dir: Vinay Sharma
Group: Padatik, Kolkata
Hindi, 1 hr 45 mins
   
Miniature Moments of Life
Dir: Bimal Subedi
Group: Diploma Production, NSD
Hindi, 1 hr
     
Chand Roz Aur Meri Jaan
Playwrights: Alyz Faiz & Faiz Ahmad Faiz
Dir: Salima Raza
Group: Wings Cultural Society, Delhi
Urdu & English,
1 hr 20 mins
   
Rang Bajrang
Script & Dir:: Dinesh Thakur
Group: Ank, Mumbai
Hindi, 2 hrs
   
Nidravatwam
Playwright & Dir:
Nimmy Raphel
English, 50 mins

Hanuman Ramayana
Playwright& Dir: Suresh Kaliyath
English & Malayalam , 30 mins
Group:
Adishakti, Vazhakulam
         

Fellini's Dream
Playwright: Stefano Geraci
Dir: Pino Di Buduo
Group: Teatro Potlach, Rieti, Italy
English, 1 hour
   

Fevicol
Dir: Jeet Roy Hansda
Group: Diploma Production, NSD
Hindi, 55min
         
7 Mon

     

Mohandas
Playwright: Uday Prakash
Dir: Rajinder Nath
Group: Theatre Repertory Company, Shri Ram Centre for Performing Arts, New Delhi
Hindi, 1 hr 45 mins
   
The Island
Playwright: Athol Fugard
Dir: Sanjeewa Upendra
Group: Wings Theatre Group,Kadawatha, Sri Lanka
Sinhala, 1 hr 15 mins
         
Maybe This Summer
Playwright: Tripurari Sharma
Dirs: Teekam Joshi, Gauri Dewal & Tripurari Sharma
Group: Laboni Performing Arts, New Delhi
Hindi & English,
1 hr 10 mins
    

A Warsaw Melody
Playwright: Leonid Zorin
Dir: Huo Ying
Group: The Central Academy of Drama, Beijing, China
Chinese (with English subtitles), 2 hours
    The Country without a Post Office
Dir: Md. Muzammil Hayaat Bhawani
Group: Diploma Production, NSD
Hindi, 45 min
          

Allied Event
Confined – An Operatic Song Cycle
Performance/Video Installation
Artist & Writer: Tammy Brenan
Dir: Younes Bachir
English, 30-40 mins
 

8 Tue     

Anveshan
(Group Dance)
Dir & Choreo: Sangeeta Sharma
Group: Anveshana Dance Theatre, Delhi
Non-verbal, 53 mins
   
Drums on The Dam
Playwright: Helen Cixous
Dir: Ashim Das
Group: Fame School of Dance, Drama and Music, Chittagong, Bangladesh
Bengali,1 hr 45 mins
    

Kneel Down
Dir: Sarika Pareek
Group: Diploma Production, NSD
Hindi, 1 hr
   
Maya Bazar - Surabhi
Playwright: Sri Malladi Venkata Krishna Sarma
Dir: R. Nageshwara Rao
Group: Sri Venkateshwara Natya Mandali, Hyderabad,
Telugu, 1 hr 50 mins
    

After The Birds
Dirs: Jessica Cohen, Jim Ennis & Tomasz Rodowicz
Group: CHOREA Theatre Association and Earthfall, Poland
Polish, 1 hr
   

Allied Event
Unselfed
- A Devised Performance Piece
Dir: Sujay Saple
Group: ShapeShift, Mumbai
English, 1 hr 15 mins
   

Meghnad Badh Kabya
Playwright & Dir: Manish Mitra
Group: Kasba Arghya, Kolkata
Bengali & Sanskrit, 1 hr 50 mins
   
Journey for Freedom
(Devised Performance)
Dir: Pravin Kumar Gunjan
Group: The Fact Art & Cultural Society, Begusarai
Hindi, 1 hr 10 mins
   
Sarpa Sutra
Script & Dir: Dr. Gowri Ramnarayan
Group: JustUs Repertory, Chennai
English, with verses in Sanskrit, Tamil & Telugu, 1 hr 30 mins
    

Monsieur Jor Dan and Dervish Mastali Shakh
Playwright: M. F. Akhundzadeh
Dir: Firudin Maharramov
Group: Sumgait State Musical Drama Theatre, Azarbaijan
Azeri, 1 hr 45 mins
    

Sangeet Maan Apmaan
Playwright: Late K. P. Khadilkar
Dir: Nipun Dharmadhikari
Group: Raahen, Pune
Marathi, 2 hrs 30 minutes
          Allied Event
 

Stroll
- Adapted from: the works of Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Lorca’s Yerma, and Harold Pinter’s Black and White
Concept & Dir: Moon Moon Singh
Group: Oorja Performers, New Delhi
English, 2 hrs       

The Measures Taken
Playwright: Bertolt Brecht
Dir: Israfil Shaheen
Group: Department of Theatre, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh
Bengali,1 hr 30 mins
   

Satyashodhak
Playwright: G. P. Deshpande
Dir: Atul Pethe
Group: Pune Municipal Corporation Workers Union, Pune
Marathi, 1 hr 45 mins
    

Metamorphoses
Written and Originally Directed by: Mary Zimmerman
Dir: Kusum Haidar
Group: Yatrik, New Delhi
English, 1 hr 15 mins
    

Parikrama
(Contemporary Dance)
Dir: Shobha Deepak Singh
Choreo: Shashidharan Nair
Group: Shriram Bhartiya Kala Kendra, New Delhi
Non-verbal, 1 hr 30 mins
    

Aami Bingsho Shatabdeer Bish
Playwright & Dir: Shyamal Chakraborty
Group: Nayantara Opera, Kolkata
Bengali, 3 hrs

         
11 Fri    

9 Days Newspaper
(Devised Script)
Dir: Joy Maisnam
Group: Treasure Art Association, Imphal
Manipuri & English, 1 hr
    

Aalav
Adaptation & Dir: Arshad Mushtaq
Group: Theatre for Kashmir, Srinagar
Kashmiri, 1 hr 10 min
          

A True Calling
playwright:Vijayadan Detta
Adaptation & Dir: Chongtham Jayanta Meetei
Group: EX-Theatre Asia, Miaoli, Taiwan
Manipuri & Chinese,
1 hr 10 mins
    

Shyamar Udal
Playwright: Rabindranath Tagore
Dir: Syed Jamil Ahmed
Group: Rangkarmi, Kolkata
Bengali
    

Dhawala Bheeshana
Dir: Dharmasiri Bandaranayake
Group: TrikonE Cultural Foundation, Rajagiriya, Sri Lanka
Sinhalese,2 hr 15 mins

    Bhakt Puranmal Nautanki Swaang
Group: Krishna Kala Kendra, Firozabad
Dir: Krishna Kumari Mathur
Brajbhasha, 1 hr 45 mins
   
12 Sat    

Saba Kota Manuh
Dramatization: Anup Hazarika
Dir: Pakija Begum
Group: BA, Guwahati, Assam
Assamese, 1 hr 58 mins
    

Prem Ki Bhoot Katha
Playwright: Vibhuti Narayan Rai
Dir: Dinesh Khanna
Group: Pehchan, New Delhi
Hindi, 1 hr 20 mins
    

Natura Sonoris
Dirs: Laura Colombo & Luca Ruzza
Group: Open Lab Company, Italy
Non-verbal, 45 mins
    

Indian Tempest
Artistic Dir: Paddy Hayter
Group: Footsbarn Theatre, France
English, French & Malayalam, 2 hours
   

 Tathagata
Playwright: Late Mohit Chattopadhyaya
Dir: Dr. Tapanjyoti Das
Group: Rangapat, Kolkata
Bengali, 3 hrs 7 mins
   

13 Sun    

Teesveen Shatabdi
Playwright: Badal Sircar
Dir: Avneesh Mishra
Group: Rangshila Cultural & Development Society, Mumbai
Hindi, 2 hrs 30 mins
   

Yamadoothu – After the Death of Othello
Adaptation: M.N.Vinayakumar
Dir: V. Abhimanyu
Group: Janabheri, Thrissur
Malayalam & English, 1 hr 13 mins.
   
Medea
Adaptation & Dir: Abanti Chakraborty
Group: Aarshi, Kolkata
Bengali, 1 hour
    Piya Bahroopiya
Dir: Atul Kumar
Group: The Company Theatre, Mumbai
Hindi, 2 hrs 10 mins
    

Sri Sri Chakra
Playwright & Dir: Palash Protim Mech
Group: Omni Flame The Art Society (OFTAS), Dibrugarh
Assamese, 1 hr 20 mins
          

Allied Event
IMPROVISED SPOTLIGHT
A Public Space Project &
Interactive Installation
Dir: Pallav Chander
2 hours
 

14 Mon    

Massage
Adaptation: Rakesh Bedi
Dir: Harbansh Singh
Group: Pratik Arts Theatre, Mumbai
Hindi, 2 hrs
   

Drops of Poetic Vibrations
Adaptation & Dir: Prof. S. Ramanujam
Group: Arangasree, Thanjavur Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu
Tamil, 1 hr 15 mins
   

The Tale of The Tiger
Playwright: Dario Fo
Dir: Arash Absalan
Group: Azdar Theatre, Kabul, Afghanistan
Persian, 1 hr 30 mins
         

Rajar Chitthi-1942
Playwright & Dir: Subhashis Gangopadhyay
Group: Renaissance, Kolkata
Bengali & Hindi, 2 hrs 10 mins
    

Miss Julie
Playwright: August Strindberg
Dir: Sohaila Kapur
Group: Katyayani, New Delhi
English, 1 hr 30 mins
            

15 Tue    

Homapakhi
Playwright: Dr. Amit Ranjan Biswas
Dir: Soumitra Chatterjee
Group: Shyambazar Mukhomukhi, Kolkata
Bengali, 2 hrs
    

Daak Ghar
Playwright: Rabindranath Tagore
Dir: P.S.Chari
Group: Triveni, Vadodara
Gujarati, 1 hr 15 mins
   
    Khol Do aur Mozel
Dir: Devendra Raj Ankur
Group: Sambhav Art Group, New Delhi
Hindi, 55 mins

    Yaar Banaa Buddy -Bang on . . . Dhamaal Tigdi!
Script & Dir: Nadira Zaheer Babbar
Group: Ekjute Theatre Group, Mumbai
Hindi, 2 hrs 10 mins
    The Non-Stop Feel-Good Show
Script & Dir: Maya Krishna Rao
Group: Vismayah, New Delhi
English, 1 hr 15 mins
         
16 Wed    

What Craziness! Why you behave this way
Adaptation & Dir: Prasanna
Group: Rangayana, Mysore
Kannada, 1 hr 45 mins
   

Eigi Khongthang Lepkhiroi
Playwright & Dir: Dr. S. Thaninleima
Group: Khenjonglang, Imphal
Manipuri, 1 hr 10 mins
   
Inspired by Blindness
(Solo performance based on the original by Jose Saramago)
Adaptation & Dir: Sathya Bhama
Group: Individual Production
English, 1hr

          Devi Sarpamasta
Playwright: Manoj Mitra
Dir: Debesh Chattopadhyay
Group: Minerva Natyasanskriti Charchakendra, Kolkata
Bengali, 2 hrs 30 mins
   
King Lear
Dir: Ovlyakuli Khodjakuli, Turkmenistan , Uzbekistan
Group: Anna Mele & Ovlyakuli Khodjakuli
Turkman, 1 hr 5 mins
          

17 Thu    

Anto-Aadi-Anto
Playwright: Rudraprasad Sengupta
Dir: Debsankar Halder
Group: Nandikar, Kolkata
Bengali, 1 hr and 15 mins
    

Eatho Chirakadiyochakal (Solo Performance)
Playwright: Late Prof. G. Sankara Pillai
Dir: Sam George
Group: APT – A Place for Theatre Performance and Research, Thiruvananthapuram
Malayalam,50 mins
          

The Knocking Within
Dirs: Wendy Jehlen & Pradhuman Nayak
Group: ANIKAI Dance, USA
English, Hindi & American Sign Language, 1 hr
    

Manto Rama
Playwright: Khurram Ali Shafiqi
Dir: Sunil Shankar
Group: NAPA Repertory Theatre, Karachi, Pakistan
Urdu, 2 hrs
    

A Far Cry
Playwright: Budha Chingtham
Dir: Ningthouja Deepak
Group: NT Theatre, Imphal
Manipuri, 1 hr 15 mins
         
18 Fri    

Shivaji Underground in Bhimnagar Mohalla
Playwright: Rajkumar Tangde
Dir: Nandu Madhav
Group: Public Opinion Production, Advait Theatre and Rangmala, Mumbai
Marathi,2 hrs 30 mins
    

Ik See Manto
Playwright & Dir: Kewal Dhaliwal
Group: Manch-Rangmanch, Amritsar
Punjabi, 1hr 30 mins 

The Colonial, The Convict & The Cockatoo
Playwright & Dir: Arjun Raina
Group: Arjun Raina, Gurgaon
English, 1 hr


For 18
   
 Macbeth
Adaptation: Ujjal Chattopadhaya
Dir: Koushik Sen
Group: Swapna Sandhani, Kolkata Bengali, 2 hrs 30 mins
   
Dafa 292
Adaptation & Direction: Anoop Trevedi
Group: National School of Drama Repertory Company, New Delhi
Hindi,1 hr 10 mins
    

Allied Event
Pagadi, (The Turban)
– An Installation Theatre Project Dir: Dinesh Yadav
Group: Swayambhu Foundation, New Delhi
      

19 Sat     

Julius Caesar
Adaptation: Karuna Deka &Bhagirathi
Dir: Bhagirathi
Group: Seagull Theatre, Guwahati
Assamese, 1 hr 30 mins
    

Shivarathri
Playwright: Dr. Chandrashekhara Kambara
Dir: Chidambararao Jambe
Group: Niranthara Foundation (R), Mysore
Kannada,1 hr 40 mins
          

Anecdotes & Allegories by Gulbadan Begum
Script: Choiti Ghosh
Concept & Dir: Anurupa Roy
Group: Katkatha Puppet Arts Trust, New Delhi
English,1 hr 30 mins
    

Kaun Hai Yeh Gustakh
Playwright: Shahid Nadeem
Dir: Madeeha Gauhar
Group: Ajoka Theatre, Lahore, Pakistan
Urdu,2 hrs
   

 The Last Tale
Script: Dr. Surjit Patar
Dir: Dr. Neelam Man Singh Chowdhry
Group: The Company, Chandigarh
Punjabi,1 hr 15 mins
    

Soorppanangu
Playwright & Dir: S. Murugaboopathy
Group: Manalmagudi, Thoothukudi Tamil, 1 hr 35 min    

Gagan Damama Bajyo
Playwright: Piyush Mishra
Dir: Sanjay Upadhyay
Group: Nirman Kala Manch, Patna
Hindi, 1 hr 30 mins
    

Uttara Rama Charitam
Playwright: Bhavabhuti
Dir: K.S. Rajendran
Group: Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan, New Delhi
Sanskrit, 1 hr 30 mins
    

Mantoiyat
Compilation & Dir:Mahmood Farooqui
Team: Danish Husain & Mahmood Farooqui, New Delhi
Hindustani, 2 hrs 10 mins
   
    The Virgin and the Beast
Playwright and Artistic Dir: Zsolt Pozsgai
Dir: Armand Kautzky
Group: Új Színház, New Theatre, Budapest-Hungary
Hungarian, 2 hrs
    

Afsana
Playwright: Anuvab Pal
Dir: Abhijit Sengupta
Group: Theatre Club, Bengaluru
English,1 hr 20 mins
    

Matte Ekalavye
Playwright: Kuldeep Kunal
Dir: Satyabrata Rout
Group: Aadima Ranga Tanda, Kolar