They now request our first presenter of this station, Madhuri Dixit, who will be speaking on circulation for intervention,
the comic The Folk and the Democracy in Marathi Theatre Moderate the floor is yours.
Thank you, sir. And hello, everybody. I will be reading out my paper and I will also be sharing my screen to show some visuals as the need arises.
So the paper here is titled Adds to circulation for Dimension, the comic, the folk and the democratic in I.
Here there is a range of ideas and imagination that is wrong, and very of life degrades the human connexion in performance.
Theatre manifests in a circularity in the sense that every performance of the actual production, which is an independent living in principle,
it makes it not merely repeats the original design of that performance in both actuality and differentiated,
including its performative aspects, can also be perceived as inaction.
Connecticut. Here are also why this is the kind of external circularity in the sense of being a cultural
site that connects with the larger material life by drawing on its historical and cultural,
political philosophical aspects for performing human emotion and action.
Further or specific type of theatre may be identified with a specific kind of circulation or index type of presentation and or content, for instance,
as suggested by the famous nomenclature drawing room to bring that historically from the commercial urban proscenium
theatre for its thematic emphasis on the middle class life and typical importance given to the written text of the play.
However, during the last three decades, it is increasingly observed that there have been some outliers plays in Marathi
theatre that embody different kinds of circulation than the conventional one.
Such plays identify what their relevance.
Representation of spatial and specific social sections. And that particular outlook on life amongst them.
Mumbai based theatre that active playwright and actor Santosh the last popular productions stand out basically for their
use of force to advance from the conclusion their deviation from the standard Marathi language and their hilarious,
somewhat identified stylistic and critical batch of popular figures and musical effects.
I would like to examine two of his plays, namely that could actually and had echoed that if the returns produced with the gospel 20 years in which we
understand the huge circulation has been put to in the new cultural conversation that the police have initiated.
It is important to note the timing of initiating this new cultural and political conversation in the first place.
Yeah, that's a you opened in 1999 on the background of the rise of Hitler as a recognisable cultural and political force.
Everyday life had started showing signs of intolerance fuelled by religious ferocity.
It was obvious that the model that was then stripped of their divinity and grandeur and made to confront
challenges of life in unceremonious ways and accompanied by contemporary popular public figures like Read
Up on the Shango smuggler and they in the past WTO of Bollywood wanted to invite the wrath of the cultural
police shows were forcefully stopped by pressurising the authorities sloganeering in the auditoriums,
radicalised by exploiting low intensity bombs in and around the auditoriums.
Nevertheless, the production saw 4500 successful shows before stopping the events of ActionScript
guns was created to relieve the elderly electrical moment of fun and popularity,
and with the invention to make the specific kind of creativity available for the posterity,
fashion pushed tells us in one of these interviews that is available on the YouTube.
It coincided with the re-election of the right wing, aggressive candidate to the same group in 2019,
grabbing for the second time, boosting the confidence of the fundamentalist majority.
And say goodbye and neglected minorities in political and social ways,
questioned by the earlier RV of Culture Championship, a lot of wanted to avoid any controversial references.
His compromises are apparent in the play in downfall or mission of the big characters and of direct political comments.
Yet the shadow of that production looms large on the new play.
Political devices and in visual presentation or mission of epic characters in the new play did not necessarily mean
losing a reference to his previous pain of the rivalry between beggars because the game repeats itself in the new play.
But lyrics to a different sociopolitical issue and thus maintaining the inner
circularity for the inner circulation in the place of the epic fanatically,
I still believe, mobilised another commodity from the world of entertainment,
namely the blockbuster celluloid and the story of two brothers who by the end will now be fighting for version of The Mighty Mighty Kingdom.
While that explanation that the world returns in the title is not an old reposition or extension of the earlier content,
but the form and style implies the kind of circulation the critic can look for in the shared space, only to please.
Rather than asking a provocative question like the one he asked you that could achieve.
And the question was why does truth conquered in the end? What about who is responsible for the sufferings people undergo in the time of truth?
Well, I prefer to call attention to the plight of farmers in Ecuador guns and raise the question of their size is not everything to be.
But now those engagement with private speaking just following his defeat in the war.
Ngozi Adichie, in that sense of the cultural conversation, started by belives.
Please leave it in the examination of what the comics title and one of the please try to achieve, albeit inadvertently.
Otherwise, it is easy to dismiss them as slapstick comedies and nothing more.
I guess some of the criticism has already done. This is not to suggest that everything is going to be wise,
and strategy pleases the audiences during the performances, and there is much that is disorganised and unsavoury.
But what a catch. I think have been shown is the reinvention of the political conventional folk dance like no one can find out that.
Deprived of their inherent actuality, they are established as complete moral corruptions on the commercial proscenium stage.
During this process of reorientation as entertainment, the critical potential of the Commons relates importantly to the ability of seeing
the contradictions many of us and Vortex experienced in everyday situations.
It originates from the tendency to have very commonsensical relationship with the divine.
The awe inspiring and the mystical resulting in humanising and be massively jazzing extraordinary characters and situations in the world.
And I feel far from the play.
Santosh the latter plays on these very characteristics of folk forms and takes the artistic liberties of regaining the form,
but changing the content based on his campaign.
But horrendous, unique mobility on the select historical figures, difficult characters and even contemporary celebrities.
And they traverse their respective time lines together in theatrical situations that can be identified as relevant to the contemporary times.
This does not mean that cannot be contextualises them,
since they do bring in their own spatial and temporal references and carry their original parameters and Typekit instead of ghosts.
Nevertheless, the storyboard is so thin that there are scenes no story in the conventional sense in both the plays only the of bizarre journey,
replete with myriad pretentious comic situations and political scientists seeing the arrival of a social message in the end of the play.
This all beauty is relished more by the iconic and politically informed audiences,
while the uninitiated ones may let some of the challenges simply glide from the last.
However, unlike the stereotypical Marathi typical emphases on the stability of the written word,
and unlike the stilted kind of melodrama I am things that I don't mean until this kind of melodrama of contrived
gestures and loud and clichéd verbiage of the proscenium stage space that's made and described in an article.
Everything in the last place literally appears to be on the more.
While actors enter and exit from the stage, jumping, singing and dancing continually,
various timelines intersect and references to the political and dysfunction lie all over,
keeping the performances ever in motion by making new meanings to develop continuously.
Logic is hard to find in this pitch, like Haiti collage for people and situations.
Both the productions do ask for a kind of surrender in openness and readiness
from the audiences to be led in any direction wherever the please wish to be,
then. Nevertheless, that it is fresh, hilarious and enjoyable,
mainly because of the excellent sense of timing kept by the actors and the
political meanings provoked by dialogues under the name of theatre performance.
What we actually have is an exciting mix of rigorous physical energy humour and which of the folk infused
with choreographed and rested proscenium with this kind of introduction to the place of something shall.
Let me just share the presentation with the participants.
That I intend to show off your visuals. To make sense of my analysis.
So let's have some illustrations now to elaborate this title presentation of these, please.
I'm to understand the kinds of commodities that quote unquote commodities that fall
out of someone's from the artistic and material would to be circulated in his plays.
So here I'm going to show, I think, for slaves one by one from the first lady and I go back.
I hope the presentation is shared. With the participants.
Can you see the presentation, somebody please tell me? Okay, so the first duty of a prisoner who is going to act as a go between the now and the year?
On the left hand side, we see a kind of hysteria that fiction usually found on the walls of campus or some religious meetings like
that where we see that Kushner is sleeping and the him and I think people are waiting for the snap to wake up.
Now the same thing is repeated here in the play, but we I would urge you to notice the Gandhi gap that Kushner is batting in this particular visual.
The next visual shows to picture the left side picture is a general kind of pictorial depiction of the
Mahabharata war that we see that Kushner is blowing the conch and Arjun is sitting in the chariot.
The same thing happens in the play, but here I would also like to call your attention to the carnage because this is not very elegant.
It is a kind of contact we find. There or, you know, in the coffee shops and the particular part which she's.
It is a kind of musical instrument which is given to children for play and.
And. I think it's in the air.
So, you know, undermining the.
Fired. Well.
So to be with best. So this.
It's. Mixed blessing, they go at it,
not from the movie being and another instance similarity between words like similarity between words, dogs and political jokes.
For example, Bushnell spent the India Asia calling not to come out on the stage quickly without even wearing the tigers.
And there is a deliberate eagle off the name a whole mythical leader allocation money which is conveyed across just through the formal inflexion.
Similarly, Gendry can, for some names, make fun of the words and started developing mundane commodities like fish on the soap or the loudspeaker.
That's going to happen, but he is also going to get into a movie scene transfers into a mundane, everyday market experience, find places like Boris,
have connexions and memories causing unimaginable characters to meet to get your imagination started
in products like songs from the cinematic world constitute a noticeable device in the last teaser now.
Take a pause over here. I would like to show just.
One entry, one we do here, I go, Oh, oh, oh, oh no.
This is from me. That's right. That's right. Oh, what about what are you?
I think both us of this, I thought, oh one, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh my god.
Oh my, oh my god.
Oh well, we know that you know all of it.
OK, so the point to be noted in this video was the use of a song from a film, which is kind of imposed on my entry and entertainment is enhanced, but.
The. Of.
But if you can, you provide scope to ample physical movements and do associations with commonplace experiences that generate copy laughter.
In fact, searching for intricacies of transformation of representation from the outside world into the
theatrical world is very blessed to be us to think about the objects scrambled good practises,
commodities and images that circulate and or linger in public imagination for longer periods.
What associations do that you, and how good are the presentations? Get more acquainted boxing guides.
How are there specific configurations affected due to social profiles of individuals who,
or what defies imagination, represent when he chooses to come across?
These questions deserve political attention, but I'm afraid they'll find no analytical skills because of their time constraint.
Yeah, so just give you one minute and I've just completed my people here.
The comprehensive question, but I would like to address by the way of our analysis,
is about the role of circulation plays in the notion of contemporary cultural conversation appearing in Madagascar.
Is it different from circulation in other places with reference to Appalachia?
I find their circulation, its intervention in Canada by successfully relocating the to the shelter and guidance,
along with bank body language in the mainstream commercial in Canada. But what has diversified and therefore democratised Typekit?
The evidence is to be found in the emergence of new skills of acting,
as well as new actors from varied backgrounds and the consequent diversification of the social profile of future audiences,
particularly in terms of cost and class.
So the theatrical line-up could achieve any objective that becomes had in what has invited different ideas of life,
mortality and entertainment and created different kinds of maladies secrecy.
The entire exercise executed in the sheer space of the two plays in this context does not simply circulate knowledge but create event knowledge.
We do, and we don't pick up on performances under scrutiny. The primary function of circulation may be recognised as generation of comic laughter,
but it promotes criticism and much emphasis on democratic principles.
So the is a petition that I have discussed to contribute to public discourse around
contemporary matters and invite a rethinking of the possibilities of what actually happened.
Thank you. And you're wondering, how can you swap [INAUDIBLE]?