Bangalore: “Hosabelaku” makes its way back to the stage. It is always a tough ask to turn a movie into a theatre play. Hosabelaku being a super hit movie of the all-time superstar Dr. Rajkumar, not letting anyone and anything down makes it a huge responsibility for the director and his team. Every time the play has been staged the audience walked out with the play in their mind and not so much the movie making the effort worthwhile.
The play is very finely scripted by Chandan Shankar and P. D. Satish Chandra keeping in mind both the old and the contemporary scenarios in our social setup. Some of the characters have been transformed to be a lot more soft and subtle and yet cunning and meticulous as in the current scenario. Very few loud scenes and no over the top dialogues makes the play contemporary and was appreciated by people from both Dr. Rajkumar’ s era and the current era. This adaptation has characters in it which makes the play very theatrical and yet has the right amount of celluloid gimmicks – must say a good mixture of both.
The play in all its performances has won the hearts of many theatre enthusiasts and introduced new audience to the theatre world.
The cast is refreshed with this outing and has some of the well-known names from the theater and small screen world. The Lead male is played by Khuldeepak Narayan, while Divya Karanth plays Vatsala the protagonist of our play. Raji Achar plays the step mom and Chandan Shankar is donning the henpecked husband’s role. Veda is played by Anunitya an old time prakasamite while new find Pavan plays Murthy. Shruthi Raghunandan plays Latha, Nagraj her dad and Kaushthubh plays Vasu.
PD Sathish Chandra of Prakasam Trust has been working with different theatre groups from India at different times. He currently runs Kengal Hanumanthaiah Kala Soudha as its Director and aims to run the place to encourage new talent and to bring out performances that are fresh and unique. He is currently acting as Paddu in Panduranga Vittala, a Kannada sitcom, on Zee Kannada. He is also known for his theatre columns in newspapers and with special reference to the Sunday reviews in The Times of India.
Pradarshana Kala Samsthe (Prakasam) is an NGO working towards nurturing and cultivating culture under the entitlement of Kala Krushi. The organization has assisted young performing artists to showcase their talents and has created unique performing art productions. Please visit www.prakasamtrust.org/kk for all info on what Prakasam does. Prakasam has also undertaken KH Kala Soudha the newest performing space in Bangalore from BBMP. It has encouraged performers from all over the world to come and showcase their talents. As on January, 2014 there have been more than 1200 performances in KHKalaSoudha under Prakasam management.
Friday | 12th September 2014 | 7:30 PM
Venue:
K H Kalasoudha,
Ramanjaneya Temple Compound,
Hanumantha Nagar,
Basavanagudi
Bangalore – 560019
