21st January 2007...
Applause, Accolades, Praises, and chants of HIP HIP HURRAY!!!
FLASHBACK -
SEPTEMBER 2006 -
Amidst chaos, confussion, work pressure... agroup of individuals set out to recreate a legacy which has become a part of SP folklore since 2004, when the GASP first took place... and since than as they say its history...
Anu, Jyoti, Sameer, Meghana, Abhijeet, Daisy, Priya, Pragya, Amshu, Raji, Kirti,Jay, Archish,Tej, Yogi and all... Even legendary Vijay Tendulkar would be proud of your performance...
Its hard to hold the audience attention for 5 minutes but you guys managed to hold it for 2 hours 15 minutes... You toiled hard for three months... and your hard work bore fruit... we were all left gsping at the end... And the batch supported you all, entire PGP-1 turned out dressed in Red and Black... Colours of the GASP logo...
To give you background on Vijay Tendulkar:
VIJAY TENDULKAR is a leading contemporary Indian playwright, screen and television writer, literary essayist, political journalist, and social commentator. For the past four decades he has been the most influential dramatist and theater personality in Marathi, the principal language of the state of Maharashtra, which has had a continuous literary history since the end of the classical period in India and has nearly seventy-five million speakers today.
A lifelong resident of the city of Mumbai, Mr Tendulkar is the author of thirty full-length plays and twenty-three one-act plays, several of which have become classics of modern Indian theater. Ghashiram kotwal (Ghashiram the Constable) (1972), a musical combining Marathi folk performance styles and contemporary theatrical techniques, is one of the longest-running plays in the world, with over six thousand performances in India and abroad, in the original and in translation. Mr Tendulkar's output in Marathi also includes eleven plays for children, four collections of short stories, one novel, and five volumes of literary essays and social criticism, all of which have contributed to a remarkable transformation of the modern literary landscape of Maharashtra and of India as a whole. He is an important translator in Marathi, having rendered nine novels and two biographies into the language, as well as five plays. He is the author of original stories and screenplays for eight films in Marathi, including Umbartha (The Threshold) , a groundbreaking feature film on women's activism in
Some of His works -
Shantata! court chalu ahe (Silence! The Court Is in Session) (1967)
Sakharam binder (Sakharam the Book-Binder) (1972)
Kanyadan (The Gift of a Daughter) (1983)
Mitrachi Goshta (A Friend's Story)
Anand Owari (edited for the stage from the novel by Di. Ba. Mokashi)
And if we talk about Kamla - KAMALA, written in the naturalistic mode, is a topical play inspired by a real-life incident - the Indian Express exposé by Ashwin Sarin, who actually bought a girl from a rural flesh market and presented her at a press conference. By using this incident as a launching pad, Tendulkar raises certain cardinal questions regarding the value system of a modern success-oriented generation which is ready to sacrifice human values even in the name of humanity itself. The innate self-deception of this standpoint is exposed dramatically by the playwright. At the center of the play is a self-seeking journalist, Jaisingh Jadav, who treats the woman he has purchased from the flesh market as an object that can buy him a promotion in his job and a reputation in his professional life. Jadav never stops to think about what will happen to Kamala after this exposé. Tendulkar makes a jibe at the modern concept of journalism which stresses the sensational. For this, he uses Kakasaheb, a journalist of the old school, who runs a small paper with his own resources. Kakasaheb provides the true ideals of journalism and in contrast to these, Jadav's reporting is shown in a critical light. KAMALA also explores the position of women in contemporary Indian society. Through Sarita, Jadav's wife, who is in her own way as exploited as Kamala, Tendulkar exposes the chauvinism intrinsic in the modern Indian male who believes himself to be liberal-minded. Though Tendulkar suggests that Sarita cannot unlearn what she has come to realize, at the end of the play there is a faint hope of her attaining independence sometime in the future. (Taken from Introduction, Five Plays, OUP, 1992.)
(source - http://salaamtheatre.org/kamala2004.html)
KUDOS GASPIANS....
And this how the batch responded to the teams effort...
In Amlan Da's Words -
And Sunri wrote -
Kudos to the Gasp team!!!! You guys were just Ammmmaaaazing…..U ppl rock!!!
Dasiy, Anu, JP, Sam, Meghna, Tej, Yogi, Kirti, Abhijeet, Archana, Divya, Archish, Sandy, Raji, Amshu, Pragya, Priya, JT- You guys have shown how 18 people can put up a show so wonderful , so well executed and so professionally done.
3 Months of hardwork and sweat…… with almost every1 falling sick but u rocked today!!!
Sunrita
And Tushar
Gaspians...we are proud of you. The splendid performance speaks of the immense dedication & commitment which you put in all these months.
Congrats! Keep it up!
Regards,
And well i simply donot have words to praise yoou guys, I am at loss of words...
KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK
