Saksham Theatre Group presents "Toba Tek Singh" Hindi play at Vasuki Auditorium, Lok Kala Manch, 20, Lodhi Institutional Area, Lodhi Road > 7pm to 8:30pm on 29th January 2015
Time : 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
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Saksham Theatre Group presents "Toba Tek Singh" Hindi play
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Vasuki Auditorium, Lok Kala Manch, 20, Lodhi Institutional Area, Lodhi Road, New Delhi
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Event Description : Saksham Theatre Group presents "Toba Tek Singh" Hindi play.
Saadat Hassan Manto was a short story writer of the Urdu language. He is best known for his short stories, "Bu" (Odour), "Khol Do" (Open It), "Thanda Gosht" (Cold Meat), and his magnum opus, "Toba Tek Singh".
TOBA TEK SINGH has its deep foundation on the tragic event which India and Pakistan faced before, during and after independence in the form of ‘Partition’.
Set in a madhouse it uses madness as a metaphor for sanity, that if you were sane enough you would have not gone ahead for such division that has lasting effects. The concept of Binorism can be seen in this short story. It is the distinction between the two extremes; either here or there, no in between. It is a choice between two politics, religion, race and creed.sone can’t be in two states at A time, just as, in other modes of social distinction, one can’t have two religions or two color skins. Like Bishan singh who achieves ultimate marginality by dying on the border between two states, thus opting for neither. TOBA TEK SING not just questioning just two-nation theory but also the very idea of nationhood as the basis of one’s identity.
The story is set two or three years after the 1947 Partition, when the governments of India and Pakistan decided to exchange their Muslim, Sikh and Hindu , and revolves around Bishan Singh, a Sikh inmate of an asylum in Lahore, who is from the town of Toba Tek Singh. As part of the exchange of Bishan Singh is sent under police escort to India, but upon being told that his hometown Toba Tek Singh is in Pakistan, he refuses to go. The story ends with Bishan lying down between barbed wire: "There, behind barbed wires, was Hindustan. Here, behind the same kind of barbed wire, was Pakistan. In between, on that piece of ground that had no name, lay Toba Tek Singh.
Writer : Saadat Hasan Manto
Hindi Adaptation : Vidhya Shankar
Design & Direction : Sunil Rawat
Cast : Aryan Chaudhary, Vikramaditya, Dharmendra, Vinod Juyal, Rehmaan Khan, Premprakash, Mohit, Dushyant, Abhishek Anand, Jaideep, Pravesh, Durgesh, Harpinder, Amit, Sumit, Anubhava, Naseem, Arvind
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Note : Suitable for 10 years old & above
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Offline : at the venue if not sold out
Note : Suitable for 10 years old & above
Venue : Vasuki Auditorium, Lok Kala Manch, 20, Lodhi Institutional Area, Lodhi Road, New Delhi
Landmark : Behind Sai Baba Temple and Near India Habitat Centre
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Event Description : Saksham Theatre Group presents "Toba Tek Singh" Hindi play.
Saadat Hassan Manto was a short story writer of the Urdu language. He is best known for his short stories, "Bu" (Odour), "Khol Do" (Open It), "Thanda Gosht" (Cold Meat), and his magnum opus, "Toba Tek Singh".
TOBA TEK SINGH has its deep foundation on the tragic event which India and Pakistan faced before, during and after independence in the form of ‘Partition’.
Set in a madhouse it uses madness as a metaphor for sanity, that if you were sane enough you would have not gone ahead for such division that has lasting effects. The concept of Binorism can be seen in this short story. It is the distinction between the two extremes; either here or there, no in between. It is a choice between two politics, religion, race and creed.sone can’t be in two states at A time, just as, in other modes of social distinction, one can’t have two religions or two color skins. Like Bishan singh who achieves ultimate marginality by dying on the border between two states, thus opting for neither. TOBA TEK SING not just questioning just two-nation theory but also the very idea of nationhood as the basis of one’s identity.
The story is set two or three years after the 1947 Partition, when the governments of India and Pakistan decided to exchange their Muslim, Sikh and Hindu , and revolves around Bishan Singh, a Sikh inmate of an asylum in Lahore, who is from the town of Toba Tek Singh. As part of the exchange of Bishan Singh is sent under police escort to India, but upon being told that his hometown Toba Tek Singh is in Pakistan, he refuses to go. The story ends with Bishan lying down between barbed wire: "There, behind barbed wires, was Hindustan. Here, behind the same kind of barbed wire, was Pakistan. In between, on that piece of ground that had no name, lay Toba Tek Singh.
Writer : Saadat Hasan Manto
Hindi Adaptation : Vidhya Shankar
Design & Direction : Sunil Rawat
Cast : Aryan Chaudhary, Vikramaditya, Dharmendra, Vinod Juyal, Rehmaan Khan, Premprakash, Mohit, Dushyant, Abhishek Anand, Jaideep, Pravesh, Durgesh, Harpinder, Amit, Sumit, Anubhava, Naseem, Arvind
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Saksham Theatre Group presents "Toba Tek Singh" Hindi play at Vasuki Auditorium, Lok Kala Manch, 20, Lodhi Institutional Area, Lodhi Road > 7pm to 8:30pm on 29th January 2015
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