Tuesday, November 17, 2009

On public demand , at lucknow mahotsav on 7 dec : khudkhushi

After getting the huge praises and great positive reviews , this year also the most successful play of JOSH is gonna staged in lucknow mahotsav 2009 .
A famous play over the burning issue 'mercy killing' written by mr. Pravin chandra was done two times before it .
And became a wild hit show of its time .
How this topic affected the author and why he has written this play , a large number of audience got to know till now .
It's your time to know it .
You are coordinally invited to witness the success of this mega event of the year twice on the day 7th dec. , once at 4:30 pm and another at 7 pm .
It's totally a fun ride with a lot of things to know and to learn .
Drama , comedy and action along with the perfect blend of coordination and acting of the artists is gonna make it a must watch of the year .
Awesome music , situational comedy , deadly emotions , great lights and what else a play lover can wish ?

On public demand , at lucknow mahotsav on 7 dec : khudkhushi

After getting the huge praises and great positive reviews , this year also the most successful play of JOSH is gonna staged in lucknow mahotsav 2009 .
A famous play over the burning issue 'mercy killing' written by mr. Pravin chandra was done two times before it .
And became a wild hit show of its time .
How this topic affected the author and why he has written this play , a large number of audience got to know till now .
It's your time to know it .
You are coordinally invited to witness the success of this mega event of the year twice on the day 7th dec.
It's totally a fun ride with a lot of things to know and to learn .
Drama , comedy and action along with the perfect blend of coordination and acting of the artists is gonna make it a must watch of the year .
Awesome music , situational comedy , deadly emotions , great lights and what else a play lover can wish ?

Khudkhushi in lucknow mahotsav

*Khudkushi 7 Dec. 2009*

*Cast and Credits*

*On Stage*

Gauri Nandita Aaga

Pooja Nayak Swati Kapoor/Roshni/Tripti/Pooja/Sana

Shefali Apurva Shah

Mummy Ankita Gupta/Anita Shukla/Shilpi/Meeta Pant

Papa Ashutosh/Manoj Sharma

Aditya Vidit/ Ashish

Tyagi Vishal Shrivastav

Pandit Rahul Bora

Jeetu Anurag Mishra

Raju Chai Wala Jivan Rawat

Toni Prem Dhami

Gyan Prakash Verma Rishabh Dixit

Doctor Sharma Vidit/Pravin Chandra

Kriti/Nurse Ankita Dubey

Kamini Devi Rakhi Kishore/Mayuri/Shilpi/Anita Madam

Media Person Pravin Chandra/Tarun

Raja Awadhesh Bhatt

Students/Chorus Pravin, Ashish, Raju, Manoj, Saurabh, Masto, Atul

*Back Stage*

Stage Anchor Masto

Lights Manish Saini/Hafiz Bhai

Make up Upendra Soni

Music Amit Mukherji

Costumes Ankita Gupta /Ankita Dubey

Set/Property Madhu Baba, Rahul Raju/ Jivan

Documentation Saurabh Pratap, Manoj Sharma

Production Controller Masto

Rehearsal Management Smt. Anita Shukla

Asst. Director Apurva Shah

*Written and Directed by : Pravin Chandra*

Sunday, November 8, 2009

'The other side' and 'syah haashiye' a rocking hit show : reviews

It was its type of own show .
The very first show in lucknow which contained two ironic thoughtful plays , one in english and another in hindi .
Every news paper covered it and gave very good reviews .
Many times it might be seen that there are one or two papers which publishes the drawbacks of the play among all papers .
But no one was out there to criticise it this time .

We , josh , rocked that night .
The show got maximum number of sponsers till the history .
The director was all praised along with all the actors .
We got the good reviews for the backstage , music scores and the set .

There were many hardles till the last minute .
But all went great .
Now we are much confident of our work as we did two big plays in a very short time .
We now onwards working on 6-7 scripts .
So wait .
We'll be back with the bang .

Monday, November 2, 2009

"syah haashiye" and "the other side" the poster

the other side " an english play " directed by apurva shah

The other side is written by famous writer jack sturt Knapp.
It is all about the other sides of the aspects we don't see.

The plot is set in mid centuries somewhere in an English country where the death punishment 'the capital punishment' is given to the criminal by giving the electric shocks until he dies.
An old and experienced person is at job to on the switch of the electric chair.
But he is totally confused to kill the criminal when he comes to know that he would have to kill his own son .
He doesn't want to do this.
His officer consoles him that it is just his duty.
He should do it for the sake of his family.
Now he has to choose a way between love and duty .
He has to keep his words what he said to the new guard who was also afraid on his first execution .
He was told just before then by the executioner that when he was also young he also did feel the same but he did his work and moved on from his weak feelings and sympathy.
Now he has to keep the words for his duty .
Along side a sharp chronicle reporter also covers the whole story for the news.
And The son for whom, he started doing this all and who turned out to be a criminal is to be killed by his father .

What way will he choose ?


It is actually a dark satire play about our ambitions which we put over the emotions in the road of our work and duty.
On being normally a skit, director apurva shah found a scope in this script to do something.
And to put her view in front of the audience of Lucknow theatre where English plays are not common.
And where if any English play is staged it is not worth praising.

cast : vishal srivastava , rishabh dixit , anurag mishra , vidit tripathi .
time : 6:30 pm
date : 4th nov 2009
venue : rai umanath bali audi , qaiserbagh , Lucknow

Sunday, November 1, 2009

" syah hashiye " a collase of stories on roits directed by apurva shah

"syah hashiye" is the collection of stories of Saadat Hasan 'Manto' .
It is all about riots.
He wrote these stories during the time of partition of India and Pakistan about those riots.
These are contemporary today also.
The best thing described in these stories is that there is no mention of any religion particularly and in very few words, the conditions are outlined in a very good manner.
Manto had the quality of describing the stories without any type of 'beauty' of the litrature . He wrote what he felt . It became the BEAUTY of his works .
He felt the emotions of people of the time of riots very deeply and in very bad manner .
What normally occurs in the riots?
What happens to the people, how a common man turns in to devil in such hard conditions? Where there is no humanity, no food and no hope of survival.
When one has to be very careful of any person because he may be of other religion and may be hazardous to have words with him.
When your psychology works in an absolute manner.
when your family is killed and one's life can be saved by killing others .
The diversity of food, clothing, the revenge of the silent people, the cruelty over females and kids are storied by Manto in very great style.
He has been the most contradictory writer of the history of urdu and hindi litrature .

The young energetic team of fresh actors along with the new dynamic very young female director ‘apurva shah’ try to put visual sequences of these stories as we "JOSH" interpreted it.
the stories are 'dawat-e-amal' , 'haiwaniyat' , 'aram ki zaroorat' , 'mistake' , 'bekhabari ka fayda' , 'joota' , 'shanti' , 'majduri' , 'mizazpursi' , 'halaal ka jhatka' , 'hamesha ki chutti' , 'khabardar' , 'kismat' , 'batwaara' ,'peshbandi' , pathaanistan' , 'riyayat' .


come and do support us .

an invitation for the play "the other side" and "syah hashiye"

Very very warm wishes 4 d success for d both plays .
I think its very rare when you see a collage girl directing two mature plays at a time wid this much level of energy and positive spirit . (jyada mat udana , appu ! media thoda bhut to jhot bolta hai hi he he )
So congratulations 4 dis , appu !
Hereby , we all celebrate the success of this miracle girl worldwide . Cheers ! ( It may be without red bull he he )

so i invite you , everyone , to live the success of event .

Play : 'syah hashiye' n 'the other side'
date : 4th Nov 2009
time : 6:30 pm
venue : rai umanath bali audi , qaiserbagh , Lucknow

give the wishes n congratulations to this little angel here .

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