WARMING UP WITH PLAYS

As a prelude to the upcoming Lucknow Literature Festival, a three-day Theatre Festival was held at the Yashpal Sabhagaar of Hindi Sansthan from November 10 to 12.

Organised by Lucknow Expressions Society, the opening day saw play Amrita: A Sublime Love Story being staged. Directed by MS Sathyu, tt’s an biography on Amrita Pritam. On day 2, Kahani Ki Kahani, Ismat Ki Zabaani was staged. Directed by Noor Zaheer it depicted Ismat Chugtai’s life. On the concluding day Feisai Alkazi’s play Noor was staged which is based on emperess Noor Jahan’s life. The event saw a good turnout.

Play Kahani Ki Kahani

Sangeeta, Parul, Deepti, Surabhi & Amrita

Surjeet Uppal, Vijay Shahi, Kanak Rekha Chauhan & Jaideep Mathur

Play Amrita DHEERAJ DHAWAN/HT

(Above and below) Snapshots from play Noor

Waseem, Asif, Divakar & Jami.

Raj Bisaria & Kiran Bisaria

Sunny, Anurag and Inderpal Singh

Meera & Muzaffar Ali

MS Sathyu

Suryamohan Kulshrestha

Upma Chaturvedi

Chakshu Pahwa