R.U.R.(Rossum's Universal Robot)

R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots) cautions against the catastrophe due to be afflicted upon human race by the lust for automation. Rossum, a scientist, wishes to get homo sapiens free from the pain of all indignities. He dreams of a world where machines are ‘humanized’ to bear the brunt of being human and Man is set to divine duties only. He is awakened to an unknown reality when the situation gets reversed. The word ‘robot’ was used for the first time in this play, written way back in 1921.

Name of the play : R.U.R.(Rossum’s Universal Robots)
Language : Hindustani
Duration of the play without interval : 1hour 30 minutes
Translation : Shahid Anwar
Playwright : Karel Capek
Design & Director : Faiyaz Ahmed

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Aur Kitne Hiroshima or 8/6

8/6 is a journey through grey shade, conflicting ideologies and a fight against global suicide. While conjuring the devastation of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the play situates us in a passage of time marked with the ‘end of history’. It accentuates the resistance that saves the world from becoming a graveyard of all human possibilities

Aadhi Raat Ke Baad

Yahan Se Shahar Ko Dekho

Yahan Se Shahar Ko Dekho, based on Rahul Verma's play in English 'Bhopal', exposes the ever-existing hollowness of politics driven by a capital with vested interest. What poisons our life is the criminality of a state with scolded flesh and supporating skin. Thus leakage of a fatal gas becomes a metaphor

Thank You Mr Glad

Thank You Mr Glad essays a head-on collision between two unidentical attitudes towards life and people. A jail superintendent, who is a die-hard misanthrope in his conviction, encounters an iron-willed revolutionary to experience the fragility of the system he has been safeguarding all through his career. Choked by the world he believes in, the superintendent gives the proletarian a death, but less usual

Spartacus

Spartacus is the saga of an ordinary slave, which underlines the matrix of a struggle against political tyranny, social oppression, economic monopolies and cultural coercion of a Power called the Roman Empire. An epic of the dash and dynamism of human labour, the play profiles a legendary figure in a Time and Place distant but not remote to the course of evolution of the mankind.

Name of the play : Spartacus
Language : Hindustani
Duration of the play without interval : 1hour 40 minutes
Translation : Anis Azmi
Playwright : Badal Sircar
Design & Director : Ajay Manchanda

Spartacus

Men Without Shadows

Men Without Shadows deals with five French Resistance fighters, four men and a woman, who have been taken prisoner after a failed operation that resulted in a massacre. Beyond the guilt of the knowledge that their failure caused the death of innocent civilians, they know they are about to be tortured and killed by their Vichy captors. Each agonizes over whether he or she will break, screaming in pain and revealing the whereabouts of their escaped leader, or beg for life.

Reech Gaan

Ghair Zaroori Log

Ghair Zaroori Log

Dekh Tamasha Dekh

B-Three

B-Three is a scathing attack on the tradition of silence. A history teacher fails to convince his students that a Hitler could take birth anywhere, any time. He applies an experiment to explain how the brutal architect of the greatest of human tragedies could manage to legitimise the slaughter of millions of innocent lives. Lost in the momentum of the experiment, students and teacher both find themselves in a situation beyond the reach of history.
Name of the play : B-THREE
Language : Hindustani
Duration of the play without interval : 1hour 40 minutes
Playwright : Shahid Anwar
Design & Director : Suman Kumar

Baghicha Bancha Ram Ka

Bada Bhand To Bada Bhand

Condolence meet in the memory of Vijay Tendulkar

Vijay Tendulkar (Marathi:विजय तेंडुलकर)(January 6, 1928 - May 19, 2008) was a leading Indian playwright, movie and television writer, literary essayist, political journalist, and social commentator primarily in Marāthi. He is best known for his plays, Shāntatā! Court Chālu Āhe (1967), Ghāshirām Kotwāl (1972), and Sakhārām Binder (1972).Many of Tendulkar's plays derived inspiration from real-life incidents or social upheavals, which provides clear light on harsh realities. He even provided his guidance to students studying “Playwright writing” in US universities. For over five decades, Tendulkar had been a highly influential dramatist and theater personality in Mahārāshtra.

Bahroop shared the grief of all theatre-lovers over the sudden demise of
Vijay Tendulkar, the doyen of modern Indian theatre.
A condolence meeting was held at 6:30 pm on May 20, 2008(Tuesday) at Teflas TV Hall, Jawaharlal Nehru University. We read scenes from his plays Sakharam Binder and Gashiram Kotwal.

Shahid Anwar told us that the best way to pay condolence to a playwright is by celebrating his thoughts, his ideas and his plays, not just getting in remorse about his/her demise. So, we lived his spirit.

We also read Vijay Tendulkar's Interview with Jaidev Taneja (well known theatre critic and Bahroop's President), where Tendulkar, himself judiciously answered the critiques, that were posed against him and his plays.( Reference: Rang Saksatkar, by Jaidev Taneja, Kitabghar Prakashan)

It was an evening of high esteem, as Vijay Tendulkar was one of those few indian thinkers, who could intervene, and show us the follies right in our face. we pay our homage to him.

BAHROOP

Honours and Festivals

photo: Soopna Ka Sapna [Bharat Rang Mahotsav(NSD) 2003]

Participation in Festivals/Honours

National Theatre Festival
Bharat Rang Mahotsav (NSD) 2003

Soopna Ka Sapna, written by Shahid Anwar on 24th March 2003 under the direction of Satish Anand.

National Theatre Festival-2006
Ustad Allauddin Khan Sangeet Avam Kala Akademy

Spartacus written by Badal Sircar, translated by Anis Azmi and directed by Ajay Manchanda on 18 November 2006, at Gwalior.

Bahuroopi National Theatre Festival-2008
Rangayana, Mysore

The Life of Galileo written by Bertolt Brecht and translation by Shahid Anwar under the direction of HS Shivaprakash on January 18, 2008.

Bhartendu Natya Samaroh (Sahiya Kala Parishad)
(Selection of one of the best play of the year)

Ghair Zaroori Log, written by Shahid Anwar under the direction of Suman Kumar on 25th May 2002.

8/6, an adaptation of Badal Sircar’s Trishe Shotobdi by Shahid Anwar on 27th April, 2004 under the direction of Mohammad Kazim.

Yahan Se Shahr Ko Dekho, an adaptation of Rahul Verma’s 'Bhopal' by Faiyaz Ahmed on 9th May, 2005 under the direction Mohammad Kazim.

Spartacus, written by Badal Sircar under the direction of Ajay Manchanda on 06th February 2006 at LTG, Mandi House, New Delhi

B-Three, written by Shahid Anwar and directed by Suman Kumar on 6th Feb.20007

The Life of Galileo written by Bertolt Brecht and translation by Shahid Anwar under the direction of HS Shivaprakash on May 8, 2008.

Delhi Urdu Academy Drama Festival

Kale Kauwe Ne Kaha, an adaptation of Manoj Mitra’s Kaag Charitra, by Shahid Anwar on 17th February 1997 under the direction of Mohammad Kazim.
Dekh Tamasha Dekh, an adaptation of Carlo Goldoni’s The Venetian Twins on 19th March 1999 under the direction of Suman Kumar.
Baghicha Bachharam Ka, an adaptation of Manoj Mitra’s Bacheramar Bagan by Shahid Anwar on 17th February 2000 under the direction of Shahid Anwar.
Zaharqand, written by Faiyaz Ahmed on 14th January 2001 under the direction of Suman Kumar.
Soopna Ka Sapna, written by Shahid Anwar on 26th March 2003 under the direction of Satish Anand.
Aur Kitne Hiroshima, an adaptation of Badal Sircar’s Trishe Shotobdi by Shahid Anwar on 21st February, 2004 under the direction of Mohammad Kazim.
Yahan Se Shahr Ko Dekho, an adaptation of Rahul Verma’s 'Bhopal' by Faiyaz Ahmed on 04th February, 2005 under the direction Mohammad Kazim.
B-Three, written by Shahid Anwar and directed by Suman Kumar on 20th February 2006
R.U.R., written by Karel Capek, translation by Shahid Anwar under the direction of Faiyaz Ahmed on March 1, 2007.
Hamare Waqt Mein, written by Shahid Anwar under the direction of KS Rajendran on February 22, 2008.

Dilli Weekened Theatre Festival 2003

Soopna Ka Sapna, written by Shahid Anwar on 11th & 12th April 2003 under the direction of Satish Anand.

IIT Kanpur Theatre Festival

Banailey, written by Shahid Anwar & Faiyaz Ahmed on 9th February 2001 under the direction of Suman Kumar.

Ghoomar
An International festival organised by Rajasthan University, Jaipur

Banailey, written by Shahid Anwar & Faiyaz Ahmed on 2nd & 3rd June 2001, under the direction of Suman Kumar.

BHEL, HARIDWAR

Yahan Se Shahr Ko Dekho, an adaptation of Rahul Verma’s 'Bhopal' by Faiyaz Ahmed on 15th January, 2005 under the direction Mohammad Kazim.

Inderprastha Theatre Festival, IPEC, Ghaziabad

Spartacus, written by Badal Sircar, translated by Anis Azmi and directed by Ajay Manchanda on 7th November 2005.

3rd Natsamrat Theatre Festival, Delhi

B-Three, written by Shahid Anwar and directed by Suman Kumar on 27th January 2007 at LTG Auditorium, Mandi House, New Delhi

The new Governing Body of Bahroop

Governing Body of Bahroop Arts Group for the period of 2008-2010

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Jaidev Taneja (President)
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Shahid Anwar (Creative Director)

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 Archana Rawal, Md Kazim (Vice- President)

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Faiyaz Ahmed (General Secretary)
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---Secretaries---
 Sharmistha Saha,  Kriti Sharma, Arvind Alok,Ghufran Ahmed Khan

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Benil Biswas (Treasurer )
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Executive Members
Rohini Kumari,Tarique Hameed,
Resh Lamba, Md. Babar Maqsood, Gourab Ghosh,
A.K.M Hadi, Vikas Singh Rathore.

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