Dubai: Dhwani Pratishthana to Present Kannada Play 'Ashadada Ondu Dina'

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Dubai, Dec 25: Dhwani Pratishthana, a prominent Kannada writers' and stage artists' group will present the play 'Ashadada Ondu Dina' on March 30, 2012 at 5 pm at Emirates Theatre, Jumeira English Speaking School, Dubai.

Entry for the show will be free. This play is a Kannada adaptation of 'Ashad Ka Ek Din' by great Hindi playwright Prof Mohan Rakesh. The play has been translated to Kannada by Prof Siddalinga Pattanashetty.

Prof Mohan Rakesh

Prakash Rao Kayyar

'Ashad Ka Ek Din' (One Day in Ashad) was the first Hindi play by Mohan Rakesh, written in 1958, and is considered the first modern Hindi play. It received the Sangeet Natak Academy Award for best play in 1959 and has been staged by several prominent directors to critical acclaim. Till then, Hindi plays were either idealistic or didactic, devoid of connection with contemporary reality, above all their language remained the language of literature, which wasn't suitable for stage, but this play changed it all. Mohan Rakesh went on to write two more plays, and left one unfinished by the time of his death in 1972, but by then he had shifted the landscape of Hindi theatre. Mohan Rakesh has penned seven novels, seven collection of poems and hundreds of different forms of literary articles.

The play will be directed by Prakash Rao Payyar, recepient of Karnataka Nataka Academy award for the year 2010. Earlier, Dhwani presented Girish Karnad’s Kannada plays such as ‘Naga Mandala’, ‘Hayavadana’ and ‘Odakalu Bimba’ in Dubai. More than twenty five plays have been produced by Dhwani and staged in different parts of India.