The play 'Badnaam Manto' is a production of Mumbai based theatre group Rangrez. The Play depicts the controversial stages of Manto's life.
Synopsis:
Badnaam Manto
‘Here lies Saadat Hassan Manto and with him lie buried all the secrets of the art of storytelling in his breast. Weighed down by the earth he wonders still: Who is the greater writer, God or he?’
The play plots itself in Saadat Hasan Manto’s after life and packs a lot of untold surprises for the audience to keep them pondering on his current existence. Though considering the fact that Manto is dead.. he has not ceased living. One can still find traits of his existence in his writings, his followers and of course you and me. Based on the most primitive and the inevitable relations of mankind’s histories, his stories (in non-prejudice eyes) have proved to be valid in all the directions of time.
Play Duration: 1 hour 5 minutes.
Play Language: Hindustani.
Cast & Crew
On Sage
Pahalwaan: Ayatullah Khan
Manto: Devroop Sarma
Back stage
Lights & Music : Shivkaant Agrahari
Creative Director: Shashi Sharma
Writer Inspired from a play Written by
Rafi Sahbbir
Director: Ayatullah Khan.
For passes: at the gate on Fri & Sat 28,29 Aug at 8pm.
Organizer
Rangrez Theatre Productions
ABOUT RANGREZ SAROKAAR THEATRE
Rangrez Sarokaar Theatre Productions is a Professional theatre organization of Professional artists committed to exploring cultural politics at grass-root levels and initiating ways to understand and unravel its impact on the shaping of modern cultural practices, politics and social behaviors. Each individual who engages with the activities of Rangrez Sarokaar Theatre Productions is an artist at heart and each of us is driven by the shared passion to work as responsible members of the society and raise our voices against the injustice and inhumanity that has infested our society.
Our ambition has stimulated us to create a collective platform- a space to express differences without inhibition and enjoy the process of becoming and being oneself. Rangrez Sarokaar Theatre Productions has been performing plays across the country with its team of amateur and professional theatre lovers.
We have done more than 150 shows. Some of the popular ones are: GANDHI NE KAHA THA (more than 80 shows & still counting), ULGULAAN (based on Mahashweta Devi’s novel ‘Jungle ke davedaar’), PEHELE AAP(Iftikhar Alam), GAGAN DAMAMA BAJYO (Piyush Mishra), Manto Kyun badnam hai(Based On Manto’s life)Ram Sajiwan Ki Perm Katha(Uday prakash),Peshawar Express(Krishan Chandar), Shanti Shanti-it’s a war…!!(Ramu Ramanathan) Baba sheikh Chilli facebook vale(Rafi Shabbir) Karl Marx Hyderabad mein and so on…
रंगरेज़ सरोकार Theatre Productions
80/D5,SVP Nagar Mhada,4 Bungalow , Andheri(W) Mumbai-53.
Contact no-+91-9819140555, +91-8080266939 ,
Email-shashisohan@gmail.com, Email-rangreztheatre@gmail.com
After this performance we have some more plays in pipeline like, Naked truth (Life of muslim girl who breaks the religious fundamentals), Muktibodh(Biography of a great Marxist Hindi poet) and Tambe ke kide(First absurd play of world history).
