Aesthetic end to theatre festival

SD Sharma

Chandigarh, August 25

The seventh annual edition of the three-day Chandigarh Theatre Festival, organised by the Department of Cultural Affairs and the Tagore Theatre Society, concluded on an aesthetic note with the staging of a play, ‘Atamkatha’, at Tagore Theatre here on Saturday.

The play was a Hindi adaptation of celebrated playwright Mahesh Elkunchwar’s Marathi classic and was directed by Vinay Sharma. The play was enthused with a drama and innovation and marked with an unusual ending.

The play revolves around the life of a renowned novelist Rajadhyaksha (Kulbhushan Kharbanda) who is in the process of dictating his autobiography to a research scholar Pradnya (Anubha Fatehpuria) who intends to use it for a thesis.

After narratives in the first part, the play picked momentum in the second half as the actors thrilled the audience with intense romance and emotional outbursts.