Bharat Rang Mahotsav: Difference between revisions

'''4th BRM''': The 4th Bharat Rang Mahotsav, was inaugurated by [[Pandit Ravi Shankar]] on 16 March 2002, and featured 126 dramas in more than 20 languages, and plays from five other countries, including Korea, Bangladesh, Germany, Israel and Mauritius. The focus of the festival was on theatre from [[West Bengal]] and the [[North-East India|North East]], showcased in four productions from [[Manipur]], including ''Bhoot Amusung'' (Devil and the Mask) directed by L Dorendra, five from Assam with 'Hamlet' by Dulal Roy and nine plays from West Bengal. [[Nagaland]], showcased its dances, and ''Nidhali'' with young dancers under NSD graduate Rabijita Gogoi, as part of an NSD extension programme, finally [[Mizoram]] presented ''Zanriah El Hmain'' by Siddharth Chakraborty. The plays were staged at eight venues in and around NSD, and the festival concluded on 8 April, with [[Ratan Thiyam]]'s presentation of [[Kalidasa]]'s epic poem ''[[Ritusamhaara|Ritusamharam]]''.<ref>{{cite web |title=BHARAT RANG MAHOTSAV : A RETROSPECTIVE|author= Kavita Nagpal |url=http://pib.nic.in/feature/feyr2002/fapr2002/f170420021.html |date=16 April 2002 |publisher=Press Information Bureau ([[Govt. of India]]) }}</ref>

'''9th BRM''': Ninth Bharat Rang Mahotsav opened at [[Siri Fort Auditorium]] on 6 January 2007 with a performance by [[Sasha Waltz]], the dancer-cum-choreographer from Germany, and featured the 52 performances, 13 from Australia, Bangladesh, China, Pakistan, Germany, Iran, Japan, South Korea, Nepal, Poland, Sri Lanka, Switzerland and Uzbekistan, and 39 Indian productions including tribute production, theatre director [[Alyque Padamsee]]'s play "Macbeth", and choreographer Narendra Sharma's "Mukhantar and Conference". The International dance theatre showcased works of Leszek Bzdyl, Beatrice Jaccard and Peter Schelling, also Indian dancers and choreographers like [[Maya Krishna Rao]], [[Padmini Chettur]], Geeta Chandran and Veenapani Chawla. The "Satellite Festival" was held at Kolkata, from 12 and 20 January.<ref>{{cite news |title=Theatre lovers in for a feast|author=Madhur Tankha |url=http://www.hindu.com/2007/01/02/stories/2007010204130200.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110604103410/http://www.hindu.com/2007/01/02/stories/2007010204130200.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=4 June 2011 |date=2 January 2007 |work=[[The Hindu]]|location=Chennai, India }}</ref>

'''11th BRM''': The 11th Bharat Rang Mahotsav, was inaugurated by Jawhar Sircar, Union Secretary for Culture, on 7 January 2009 at Kamani Auditorium, with theatre personality [[Zohra Sehgal]], as the guest of honour, and opened with the performance of the Marathi play ''"Awagha Rang Ekachi Zaala"''. The festival focused on the productions by young directors, thus the included plays are collaborative works, based on texts, adaptations and also plays developed through training and workshops,<ref name=bh/><ref>{{cite news |title=  Of the old and the new:"Awagha Rang Ekachi Zaala" proved that popular theatre doesn’t have to be vulgar.|url=http://www.hindu.com/fr/2009/01/30/stories/2009013050100300.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121107150100/http://www.hindu.com/fr/2009/01/30/stories/2009013050100300.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=7 November 2012 |work=[[The Hindu]] |date=30 January 2009 |location=Chennai, India}}</ref> in all it featured 65 plays, 51 from India and 13 international productions, played across 7 venues.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.livemint.com/2009/01/05234816/Play-by-numbers.html|title=Play by numbers|date=5 January 2009|publisher=[[Mint (newspaper)|Mint]]|accessdate=2 April 2010}}</ref>

===2010 - present===

'''12th BRM''': The 2010 Festival, featured close to 90 plays, including 13 international productions, and productions by theatre veterans, Ratan Thiyam's  "When we Dead Awaken" and S. Ramanujam's "Veriattam". The festival highlighted the role of music in theatre, through a segment titled ''Natya Naad'', featuring trademark songs of various parts of India and of various theatre personalities, and performances based on the music in the works of [[B.V. Karanth]], [[Bhaskar Chandavarkar]], [[K. N. Panikkar]] and [[Indian People's Theatre Association|IPTA]] music.<ref>{{cite news |title=Play it again: Music, a forgotten component of theatre, ... |url=http://www.indianexpress.com/news/play-it-again/565399/ |work=[[The Indian Express]] |date=10 January 2010 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Talking theatre|url=http://www.thehindu.com/features/friday-review/theatre/article74498.ece |work=[[The Hindu]] |date=2 January 2010 }}</ref> It also included Parwaz, a puppet theatre group from [[Kabul]], [[Afghanistan]] with 'The Wolf and the Goat' and 'The Hedgehog and the Rabbit', a troupe from Pakistan presenting the [[Urdu]] version of [[Kālidāsa|Kalidas]]'s epic [[Sanskrit]] play ''[[Abhijñānaśākuntalam|Shakuntala]]'', plus from [[Israel]], a clown show titled 'Odysseus Chaoticus'.<ref>{{cite news |title=This isn’t The Theatre of War |url=http://www.indianexpress.com/news/This-isn-t-The-Theatre-of-War/565690 |work=[[The Indian Express]] |date=11 January 2010 }}</ref> In 2010, the "showcase city" was [[Bhopal]], the capital of [[Madhya Pradesh]], where a nine-day theatre festival part of the Bharat Rang Mahotsav was inaugurated by the Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister, Shivraj Singh Chouhan, showcasing 15 plays national and international plays in Bengali, Malayalam, Manipuri and Kannada as well as English, French and Nepali languages hosted at Ravindra Bhawan and [[Bharat Bhawan]] in Bhopal.<ref>{{cite news |title=Nine-day festival of plays to be inaugurated|url= http://www.zeenews.com/news594774.html|publisher=[[Zee News]] |date=11 January 2010 }}</ref> With highlight being 'Umrao Jaan', 'Quick Death' and [[Ibsen]]'s '[[A Doll's House]]' in Nepali, and "The Doorway," performed by Jyoti Dogra, who also performed the play in Delhi Festival as well.<ref>{{cite news |title=An image to an impulse  |url=http://www.thehindu.com/features/metroplus/article76587.ece |work=[[The Hindu]] |date=6 January 2010 }}</ref> Apart from the plays, the festival also hosted a tribute exhibition dedicated to life, works and theatre of [[B.V. Karanth]] and [[Habib Tanvir]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.thehindu.com/features/friday-review/theatre/article87544.ece|title=Saluting stalwarts|date=21 January 2010 |work=The Hindu|accessdate=2 April 2010}}</ref>