Ismat Apa Ke Naam - Play July 23, 2009

Ismat Apa Ke Naam - Play. Cast: Naseeruddin Shah, Ratna Pathak, Heeba Shah. Directed by: Naseeruddin Shah. Produced by: Jairaj Patil. Settings executed by: Bhola Sharma. Lighting: Michael Nazareth, Inayat Sami. Public Relation: Manhar Gadhia. Music composed by: Vishal Bhardwaj. Publicity design: Brijen Thakkar. Vocals by: Sanjiv Abhyankar, Rekha Bhardwaj. Shehnai played by: Madhukar Dhumal. Keyboards: Chitti Pillai. Percussion: Bharat Ghoshar. Sound Recordist: Salman Khan. Recorded at: Satya Studio. Photographs by: Saagar Arya. Art direction by: Salim Arif & Ratna Pathak Shah. "Mughal Bachcha" told by Ratna Pathak Shah, talks about the so called successors of the great Mughals, the landed gentry of Uttar Pradesh, in the time of the British Raj; pathologically incapable of recognizing that time had long since passed them by, unwilling to come to terms with their declining status and moth-eaten existence, desperately clinging on to the tattered remnants of their ancestors past glory. Within this wry and perceptive social commentary is interwoven a love story of epic proportions; the story of Gori bi and Kaley mian. "Chhui Muee" told by Heeba Shah, is an account of childbirth in a train compartment, which is witnessed by three totally fascinated but differently effected women. A first person description, as seen through the eyes of a child, it could well be something the writer witnessed in childhood, but in its writing, the story transcends the purely personal, and becomes a hymn of praise to the courage, power and integrity of the rural woman. "Gharwali" told by Naseeruddin Shah, a heady satire on the social mores of the times (the 40s) id uncannily accurate in its observations on the nature of the man-woman equation. It would take a hard man to dispute the fact that Ismat Apas view of marriage (and the baggage we can bring to it!) is as pungent and rings as true as it did when she was first writing and enraging the hordes of male chauvinists she was, in all http://www.buzzintown.com/?116695&ref=yupg&refcity=6
probability, surrounded by.

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