Mrityunjay Prabhakar's "Khwahishen" Hindi Play about love and self at Banga Sanskriti Bhavan, 18-19 Bhai Veer Singh Marg > 6:30pm on 21st March 2013

Time : 6:30 pm

Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served basis)

Place : Muktadhara Auditorium, Banga Sanskriti Bhavan, 18-19 Bhai Veer Singh Marg, New Delhi 110001

Landmark : Between Gol Market and St. Columba’s School

Venue Info : Events | Nearest Metro Stations - 'Shivaji Stadium(Orange Line)' &  'R. K. Ashram Marg(Blue Line)'

Event Description : Mrityunjay Prabhakar's 'Khwahishen' Hindi Play about love and self. 

About the Play ‘Khwahishen’ : Modernity comes with a baggage of its own. It has provided several advancements in the life of human beings. Development of metropolitan cities and the day to day technological inventions are changing our day to day life faster than anytime earlier. ... The connectivity between human beings is at high level in this period. Telephones, internet, social sites and several other popular mediums have provided us several means of connecting to the known and unknown people. This has opened up a great new leap in human relationship. Man-women relationship is also part of human relationship and it has its own historical, civilizational and societal baggage. In our times, it is changing in a rapid way. Man-women relationships in our times are seeing new avenues, new outlook and new freedom. It is celebrating its new diversions which is more liberated and progressive rather than any other time of history. The meaning of love and sex has been redefined by this new turn. It has come very far from the earlier hegemonic man-women relationship. The youngsters of our time express their love and sexuality in a different paradigm and they celebrate it rather putting it in corner on the name of morality and absurd values.
Our new production ‘Khwabaishen’ is a tale of three young Turks of our time, who don’t succumb to the tried and tasted way of life. They have chosen a carrier of their own and they live independent life in a metropolitan city, a city which grows bigger day by day but limit our periphery of human relationship. The broader our social contact expands the lonelier one feels in his or her life. They struggle with their loneliness in their life to find their love and right of their sexuality. They express themselves in a totally liberated manner in which there are neither any rules nor any regulations. They do everything to please themselves and at the end of it they found themselves lonelier than earlier. Finally, they chose it in their life as a way of life and celebrate it.

About the Director : Mrityunjay Prabhakar has been active in theatre both in theory and practice for more than fifteen years. He has acted in and directed dozens of theatrical productions. Mrityunjay is a PhD student of Theatre & Performance Studies, School of Arts & Aesthetics, JNU Mrityunjay has written almost half a dozen original plays and adopted some from world literature. In 2012 he has been awarded Bihar Kala Puraskar as a young playwright on the name of Rameshwar Singh Kashyap. In 201 he has got J.C. Joshi Yuva Shabd Sadhak award for his poems.
Prabhakar has Produced & Directed plays like Jee Humen To Natak Karna Hai, Dhruvaswamini, Viththala, Suicide, Hey! Ram, Teri Meri Kahani Hai, Bahut Rat Ho Chali Hai, Kaun Thagwa Nagaria Lutal Ho, Hasna Mana Hai, Hanush, Ek Ajnabi Se Mulakat, Woh, Raja ka Baja, Sarkari Ghoda and others.

About The Group : ‘Sehar’ is a dynamic group, composed of different sections of society i.e., intellectuals, academicians, journalists, social scientists, activists, research scholars, art practitioners, & students, aiming for the change required in time. We have come together out of our concern for the society in which we are placed. The group takes off with the basic need of expressing and communicating for the problems of the marginalized and underprivileged section of our society. 

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