Pratibha Sanskritik Kendra presents Girish Karnad's "Hayavadana" Hindi Play at Shri Ram Centre for Performing Arts (SRCPA), 4, Safdar Hashmi Marg > 6:30pm on 24th August 2015
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Pratibha Sanskritik Kendra presents Girish Karnad's "Hayavadana" Hindi Play
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Shri Ram Centre for Performing Arts (SRCPA), 4, Safdar Hashmi Marg, Mandi House, New Delhi-110001
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Entry : by tickets priced at Rs. 100 only, Available at :
Offline : At the venue before the show
Venue : Shri Ram Centre for Performing Arts (SRCPA), 4, Safdar Hashmi Marg, Mandi House, New Delhi-110001
Venue Info : Events | About | Map | Narest Metro Station - 'Mandi House' Gate No. 1 (Blue Line and Violet Line)
Area : Mandi House
Event Description : Pratibha Sanskritik Kendra presents Girish Karnad's "Hayavadana" Hindi Play.
Girish Karnad's play Hayavadana has various cultural implications, which are relevant even today. Here's a peek into what the play is all about.
The main plot of the play begins with Kapila, who finds his best friend Devadatta despondently dreaming about Padmini. Kapila, who is a Kshatriya, is a wrestler, whereas Devadatta is a learned Brahmin and poet, but physically weak. Kapila goes on to arrange Devadatta's marriage to Padmini and realises that she is as clever as she is beautiful.
Although Kapila is attracted to her, he arranges the match, and Devadatta and Padmini are married.
After the wedding, Padmini finds herself getting attracted to the strong-bodied Kapila, and Devadatta is consumed by jealousy. A few months into the marriage, the three travel to Ujjain. On the way, Devadatta decides to offer himself to Kali, but Kapila too is not left behind. The two men behead themselves in the Kali temple. The pregnant Padmini, afraid that she might be blamed for their deaths, then decides to kill herself.
However, Kali stops her and offers to bring the men back to life. Padmini rearranges the heads so that Devadatta's head is on Kapila's body and vice versa, and asks the goddess to do her magic.
Along with the central theme, there is a sub-plot wherein Hayavadana (the horse-man) reflects incompleteness. With the face of a horse and the body of a man, Hayavadana, the off-spring of a celestial being and a princess, loathes and wants to rid of the horse’s head and longs to be a complete man. He is symbolic of the identity crisis we face today. Karnad implores Existentialism by intensifying the motif of man’s incompleteness – whichever way you look at him, he seems the embodiment of imperfection, of incompletion.
In the play, identity and impersonation have been played up, leading to conflicts between the mind and the body. When Kapila and Devadatta’s heads get transposed, the identity crisis further deepens. This conflict is well expressed in Devadatta’s (whose head is Devadatta’s but body is Kapila’s) words, “But this body does not wait for thoughts, it acts.” The irony has been brought out very well by Karnad. As we in today’s times, often chose body over mind, Padmini too does the same. This reflects the changing preferences in our lives.
Director : Bhumikeshvar Singh
Related Links : Theatre
Entry : by tickets priced at Rs. 100 only, Available at :
Offline : At the venue before the show
Venue : Shri Ram Centre for Performing Arts (SRCPA), 4, Safdar Hashmi Marg, Mandi House, New Delhi-110001
Venue Info : Events | About | Map | Narest Metro Station - 'Mandi House' Gate No. 1 (Blue Line and Violet Line)
Area : Mandi House
Event Description : Pratibha Sanskritik Kendra presents Girish Karnad's "Hayavadana" Hindi Play.
Girish Karnad's play Hayavadana has various cultural implications, which are relevant even today. Here's a peek into what the play is all about.
The main plot of the play begins with Kapila, who finds his best friend Devadatta despondently dreaming about Padmini. Kapila, who is a Kshatriya, is a wrestler, whereas Devadatta is a learned Brahmin and poet, but physically weak. Kapila goes on to arrange Devadatta's marriage to Padmini and realises that she is as clever as she is beautiful.
Although Kapila is attracted to her, he arranges the match, and Devadatta and Padmini are married.
After the wedding, Padmini finds herself getting attracted to the strong-bodied Kapila, and Devadatta is consumed by jealousy. A few months into the marriage, the three travel to Ujjain. On the way, Devadatta decides to offer himself to Kali, but Kapila too is not left behind. The two men behead themselves in the Kali temple. The pregnant Padmini, afraid that she might be blamed for their deaths, then decides to kill herself.
However, Kali stops her and offers to bring the men back to life. Padmini rearranges the heads so that Devadatta's head is on Kapila's body and vice versa, and asks the goddess to do her magic.
Along with the central theme, there is a sub-plot wherein Hayavadana (the horse-man) reflects incompleteness. With the face of a horse and the body of a man, Hayavadana, the off-spring of a celestial being and a princess, loathes and wants to rid of the horse’s head and longs to be a complete man. He is symbolic of the identity crisis we face today. Karnad implores Existentialism by intensifying the motif of man’s incompleteness – whichever way you look at him, he seems the embodiment of imperfection, of incompletion.
In the play, identity and impersonation have been played up, leading to conflicts between the mind and the body. When Kapila and Devadatta’s heads get transposed, the identity crisis further deepens. This conflict is well expressed in Devadatta’s (whose head is Devadatta’s but body is Kapila’s) words, “But this body does not wait for thoughts, it acts.” The irony has been brought out very well by Karnad. As we in today’s times, often chose body over mind, Padmini too does the same. This reflects the changing preferences in our lives.
Director : Bhumikeshvar Singh
Related Links : Theatre
Pratibha Sanskritik Kendra presents Girish Karnad's "Hayavadana" Hindi Play at Shri Ram Centre for Performing Arts (SRCPA), 4, Safdar Hashmi Marg > 6:30pm on 24th August 2015
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