Suburb March 2019

Delhi Dossier
A post event wrap up report on Delhi’s socialite brigade, shows,
launches and more…
Red Carpet Theatre Awards
The theatre fraternity and
audiences came together in
the national capital for a redcarpet
awards gala at the
14th Mahindra Excellence in
Theatre Awards (META) Festival. The
week-long extravaganza came to an
end as the past year’s best plays from
across the country were awarded the
coveted META at the Red Carpet
Awards Night at Kamani Auditorium.
There were 14 award categories onstage
and off-stage talent including the
prestigious Lifetime Achievement
Award. The Hindi Adaptation of
‘Andha Yug’ by TAAM, Manipur
bagged Best Play and ‘Agarbatti’ by
Samagam Rangmandal won Best
Director and Best Original Script at the
2019 META.
The jury for the 14th edition of META
comprised of eminent personalities
including Akash Khurana, Anmol
Centre For Mohiniyattam presented 'SAMVAAD'
at Stein Auditorium at India Habitat Centre
recently. The senior disciples of Guru Padma Shri
(Smt.) Bharati Shivaji came together to present
Samvaad which is a dialogue between
Mohiniyattam and other likeminded classical dance forms,
namely Sattriya, Odissi, Mayurbhanj Chau and Manipuri,
performed with Mohiniyattam as duets. It expresses how
the styles, in spite of their well delineated vocabulary,
complement each other beautifully and can come
together to weave a poetic tapestry of grace and
rasa.
The aim is to not only work at expanding the frontiers
of Mohiniyattam on its own, but also in exploring
possibilities of its growth in conjunction with styles
that can complement its mood and aesthetics well.
The participating artists included Vani Bhalla Pahwa
(Mohiniyattam), Vinaya Narayanan (Mohiniyattam),
Anwesa Mahanta (Sattriya), Kavita Dwibedi (Odissi),
amongst others.
Vellani,
Ila Arun, Kulbhushan
Kharbanda, Mukund
Padmanabhan,
Kothari and Sunit
Tandon.
This year’s edition of the festival saw a
record-breaking 414 entries sent in for
various categories. For a week in the
capital’s Shri Ram Centreand Kamani
Auditorium, the META Festival staged
Samvaad- Expanding cultural frontiers
the
nominated
plays of
2019
featuring
productions
in Bundeli,
English, Gujarati, Hindi, Hindustani,
Kannada, Malayalam and Tamil, with
several of these performances running
to packed houses.
Pictures by Rasmi Choudhary
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suburb life | March 2019