GIRIJA KE SAPNE at Prithvi Theatre

Dates: (5/1/2012 )

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Prithvi Theatre

20 Janki Kutir Juhu Church Road
Mumbai, 400 049

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Running Time: 06:00 pm, 09:00 pm

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1 hr 45 mins (No Interval)

Girija Ke Sapne is a musical satire, at times hilariously funny and at times ridiculous, with shades of pathos. It makes use of television and advertising lingo as a theatrical device including the now popular trend of Hinglish. The protagonist Girija, is the only educated girl in her village - 10th class fail. She dreams of the kind of life-style she has seen in the touring talkies. Her small town aspirations based on her exposure to films and advertising are personified in the character of her hero. She is so enamoured of her hero that the dialogues he delivers in his films are the only truth she believes in. The make-believe world of her dreams is her reality, which is completely at odds with her family and her village. The clash between her dreams and reality is the essence of the play. The choir is a central part of the play representing different characters. Though the story is set in a village in north Karnataka, the production uses music in a stylised manner and not in a dialect or a particular folk form specific to any part of the country. The play is a comment on the influence of globalisation and the now ever-popular trend of bank loans that has swept through rural and urban India. The common man is victimised by the system and ends up paying back the loans with his life because he has no way out. Farmers in India are being trapped by the vision of quick money and modern farming. They are being made to give up their traditional eco-friendly methods and adopt new methods which require more water, more pesticides, growth controllers, fertilisers, etc. And if this was not enough, they are forced to use non-renewable seeds. These new methods have totally changed the agriculture patterns in India. At the end of it the maximum benefits go to the MNCs and big farmers and corporations in India. The farmer continues to be the lowest common denominator….and very often not even that, because he has been wiped out by the system.
The need of the hour is a more people-friendly, farmer-friendly system - ecological agriculture based on biodiversity for economic and food security. Food and agriculture must become more socially and ecologically sustainable, more accessible, and food quality, food safety and public health must be put above corporate profits.Girija Ke Sapne premiered at the Prithvi Theatre festival at Mumbai in 2007 and has also been performed at the Rashtriya Natya Mahotsav at Lucknow in 2008. This play has also been performed at different venues across Mumbai as well as Pune.

About the Group:
IPTA Mumbai has been an active part of the theatre movement in the country for over six decades having staged over 100 plays in different languages, including Aakhri Shama, Sufaid Kundali, Bakri, Africa Jawan Pareshan, Ek Aur Dronacharya, Hori, Lok Katha, Moteram Ka Satyagrah and Shatranj Ke Mohre among many other landmark productions. IPTA works with the objective of using theatre as an instrument for building social awareness and for the education, entertainment and inspiration of the people. Current productions include Ek Baar Phir, Kaifi Aur Main, Girija Ke Sapne, Kashmakash, Biwi O Biwi, Tajmahal Ka Tender, Hum Deewaane Hum Parwaane and Shatranj Ke Mohre. To promote young talent it has been organising an Inter Collegiate Drama Competition in memory of Prithviraj Kapoor since 1972. IPTA Balmanch, its children’s theatre wing conducts workshops as well as stages plays for young audiences.

Cast and Creative team for GIRIJA KE SAPNE at Prithvi Theatre

Girija Mithila Lad
Raju Karan Shuklaa / Ronak Kitta
News reader Neeraj Pandey
Tai Manju Sharma
Girija ke Pita Vikas Yadav
Mausi Nupur Srivastav / Almas Potrik
Meera Vinati Makijany
Mahila ek Minty Singh
Mahila do Puja Kulkarni
Mahila teen Hetal Varia
hila char Vinati Makijany
Bada bhai Dhanraj Pawar
Chhota bhai Irshaad Siddiqui
Panditji Manuj Kushwaha
Kisan Amit Dey
Jatayu Vighnesh Sinkar / Rohit Chowdhary
Garud Nishu Sharma
Gayak Sancharee Saha, Sharvari, Anagh Banerjee

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