In Search Of Dariya Sagar

In Search Of Dariya Sagar

Play

April 6 - 7 | 4PM & 8PM

The Mumbai Assembly, Bandra, Mumbai


300

In Search Of Dariya Sagar

Play

April 6 - 7 | 4PM & 8PM

The Mumbai Assembly, Bandra, Mumbai


300

About the Event

Jatin is a tour guide at the Gateway of India. He has just one problem. He is a Sindhi. Something he hasn't come to terms with all his life and so leads an isolated existence in a dingy room at Colaba Causeway, away from his privileged family house. Till a strange vision, almost an epiphany of sorts, descends on him at the very shores of the Gateway of India while giving a tour, a destination, where most Sindhis landed from Karachi in ships, leaving their hearths and homes behind and carrying dreams of a better future with them. Tina is a teacher in an international school. She teaches Language and Literature to her students with a deep social conscience. She moans the loss of her language and identity and her access to the lost world. Jatin and Tina know each other since they were kids. They studied in the same college too. But haven’t ever been able to sustain a conversation beyond a point. Their journeys are in the opposite direction, one wanting to retrieve her heritage and language, while the other wanting to disavow it. Till a certain mystery behind Jatin’s grandmother’s property, which she left behind to be decoded, brings them together. And there begins a fresh voyage into the past, where more secrets, memories, unlikely stories are discovered, giving some perspective on the fractured present and rottenness which Jatin feels lies at the heart of the ‘deterritorialized’ community.

The Production- In Search of Dariya Sagar
In Search of Dariya Sagar has been written by Akshat Nigam and Gerish Khemani.The play won the Hindu Playwright Award for the new unpublished, unperformed script at the Hindu Theatre Festival 2017. Also In Search of Dariya Sagar is among the three final shortlisted plays for Naya/Noya 2018-the first Indian Playwrights' Festival as part of Specific 2018, organised by Feste Theatre, Prague, Brno, Czech Republic.
Artist Line-up and their description
WRITERS: Akshat Nigam and Gerish Khemani
DIRECTED BY: Gerish Khemani
ACTORS: Ankur Sharma, Jaymin Thakkar, Fatema Arif, Pritha Pande, Priyasha Bhardwaj, Sanket Shanware, Shivam Khanna.
LATIF'S SONG COMPOSITION: Anadi Nagar
ORIGINAL BACKGROUND SCORE: Aryan Easwaran
SET AND LIGHT DESIGN: Niranjan Jadhav
COSTUME DESIGN: Kalansh Gala
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In Search Of Dariya Sagar

Play

April 6 - 7 | 4PM & 8PM

The Mumbai Assembly, Bandra, Mumbai


300

300

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