Sada Arts Society presents "Qaid-E-Hayat" Urdu Play at Habitat World, India Habitat Centre (IHC), Lodhi Road > 7:30pm on 14th April 2013

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Time : 7:30 pm

Duration : 85 min. 

Entry : Tickets priced at Rs. Rs. 300, Rs. 200, Rs. 100, Available at : 
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Offline : At the Programme desk, Habitat World, IHC (venue). 

Place : Habitat World, India Habitat Centre (IHC), Lodhi Road, New Delhi-110003
Parking : Gate No. 1 to 3 (Cars), Gate No. 2 ( Bikes & Bicycles )
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Event Description : Sada Arts Society presents 'Qaid-E-Hayat' Urdu Play. 
We first performed it on 11th of February in Sahitya Kala Parishad’s Yuva Natya Samaroh. 

Qaid-e-hayat captures the troubled world of ghalib; his bitter domestic life, his financial hardships and above all his tragic love for Katiba..... 
The play has been divided in three acts where the first act takes place in the house of ghalib. It proceeds with an ongoing conversation between umrao,ghalib's wife and apa, her sympathetic sister. However the exchange of deepened thoughts and feelings are frequently intruded by kallu in lieu of ghalib's creditors which aptly presents ghalibs problems with his creditors who frequently tormented him, his domestic problems and attitude of his contemporary poets as 'Yasin'. Parvez, an aspiring poet produces an image of irony as a result of a common man's failure to realize his dreams.
The second act beginsbwith Katiba's portrayal as deeply in love,her soft melodious voice and delicate movements. The dialogue between kaltiba and Shireen halts at the arrival of mirza as shireen leaves the space for an episode of interaction between katiba and ghalib which exudes intense yearnings for intimacy.
The beginning of the last act is marked with a span of one year. Ghalib returns from kolkata after his appeal regarding his pensions was rejected. Now he is under house arrest as a result of non payment of credit to one of his creditors.
Pounced by the news of katiba's demise his soul cries out to him.

The play is written by Mr. Surendra Verma a well known playwright. Mr. Verma received Sangeet Natak Academy Award for this particular play.

The Director
The play has been directed by Mr. Danish Iqbal a graduate of National School of Drama, New Delhi and has done his masters from Central School of Speech and Drama, London. Mr. Iqbal has directed more than 20 plays and has acted in more than 200 shows of various plays. Along with practicing theatre Mr. Danish Iqbal is working as guest faculty and course coordinator, Post Graduate Diploma in Acting, AJKMCRC, Jamia Milia Islamia. He has been awarded Ustad Bismillah Khan Yuva award from Sangeet Natak Academy, New Delhi for the year 2010.

The actors
All the actors are professionally trained and the major characters are been played by the actors trained from National School of Drama. Katiba is been played by Nidhi Mishra who is NSD Graduate and she has also worked as actor in NSD repertory company for six years and now she is working as freelancer. Mirza Ghalib is been played by Danish Iqbal who is also the director of the play. Yaseen is played by Sadanand Patil, after completing graduation from NSD Sadanand worked as actor for six years in NSD Reportory Company and at present he is working with Kingdom of Dreams, acting in Zangura where he plays main villain.

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