About Play:
This play is the story of Mallika, the lady who loves Kalidas, the poet. Mallika compels Kalidasa to go to Ujjain to have a brighter life.
In the second scene, Kalidasa comes back to his village but does not visit Mallika. By this time, he had married Priyangumanjari, the princess of Ujjain. Mallika, who had made the supreme sacrifice had been ignored.
In the last scene, Kalidasa comes back to Mallika. But by now, she is married to Viloma, whom she had always hated and has a child. Mallika is tempted to go with Kalidasa but stays back seeing her child.
About Playwight:
Mohan Rakesh was born on January 8, 1925 in Amritsar, Punjab. He did his M.A. in English and Hindi from Punjab University, Lahore
His noted novels are "Andhere Band Kamare" (Closed Dark Rooms) and Na Aane Wala Kal. His plays "Aashad Ka Ek Din" (One Day in Aashad) (1958), play a major role in reviving Hindi theatre in 1960s and Adhe Adhure (The Incomplete Ones or Halfway House) (1959) are highly regarded.
"Leheron Ke Raj Hans' (The Swans of the Waves), the most noted play of Mohan Rakesh, an ancient Buddhist tale on the renunciation of the Buddha, and its after affects on his close family, was first written as short story and later turned it into a radio play for Radio Jalandhar, and broadcast under the title "Sundri", though his struggle over different versions of the play lasted for nearly 20 years, before creating his masterpiece. In 2005, this very writing process of the play, and Mohan Rakesh’s diary, writings, letters about the play, was recreated in play titled “Manuscript”, by a Delhi theater group.
His story, Uski Roti (A Day's Bread) was made into an epnoymous film, by Mani Kaul in 1971, for which he also wrote the screenplay.
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Author (Hindi) |
:Mohan Rakhesh |
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Translation (Kannada) |
:Siddalinga Pattanashetty |
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Direction |
:Ravindra Poojary |
ON STAGE
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Kalidasa |
: Ravishankar M.B |
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Mallika |
: Rajashri.S.R |
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Ambika |
: Poornima |
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Viloma |
: Raghavendra Prasad C |
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Nikshepa |
: Vinod M.R |
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Mathula |
: Ramprasad B.K |
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Priyangumajari |
: Poornima Kanakagiri |
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Rangini |
: Sindhumol A.D |
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Sangini |
: Brinda K.G |
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Dancers |
: Chandrakala |
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: Manjunath L Badiger |
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: Mayank |
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Anusvara |
: Manjunatha L Badiger |
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Anunasika |
: Hariharakumar G |
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Dantula |
: Mahesh Reddy |
BACK STAGE :
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Stage Execution Assistance |
: Ravishankar M.B |
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: Manjunath L Badigera |
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Stage Design |
: Jayathirtha |
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Music Direction |
: Kiran |
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Chorus |
: Vikram |
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: Kiran |
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: Poornima Kanakagiri |
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Rhythm / Percussions |
: Vivek |
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Lighting |
: Prashanth |
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Costume Design |
: Brinda K.G |
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Management |
: Manjunath M.S |
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Organising |
: Jatyathirtha |
