AVARTAN'S Present a hindi Play 'Evam Indrajeet' the play written by Badal serkar and directed by Satyabarat Rout. Duration 100 minutes.

This is our first venture to reach out to the masses, youth in particular. In today’s world where everything has become materialistic, the youth, is losing its focus and drifting towards the less important in life. Consequently, the human in us is being replaced by machine, and life becomes a mere existence. This machine- like existence acts as an octopus, that is spreading its tentacles everywhere, creeping up the humanity; the reason why we lose our existence, identity and emotions. Indrajeet seeks the answers to these fundamental questions: “Who am I?”, “What am I?” and “Why am I?” The protagonist wants to break the walls of fundamentalism, and tries to establish an idealistic society, that can liberate us from the shackles of age-long customs and laws.

Written in the early seventies, 'Evam Indrajeet' is regarded as the first Indian absurd drama, which follows the principles of existentialism, a trend set by the ideas of western philosophers and authors like Albert Camus, Samuel Beckett, and Jean Paul Sartre. The meaninglessness of life somehow reflects in the total production and questions our whole existence of life. The one and a half hour long production is an adaptation of the original play, to suit the contemporary global times, without distorting the central idea of the author. The treatment of the production is humerous, satirical, caricaturist and at the same time absurd.

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