A talk on Cinema and Theatre: Contemporary Challenge was held at open air theatre of Madhya Pradesh State Tribal Museum on Friday. Renowned Bollywood and theatre actor Rajiv Verma addressed the Bhopalites.
The event marked the third day of Gamak. Addressing the audience Verma said that there are always challenges before the artists, if the challenges are not there, then the art becomes lifeless.
It has been our culture to fight against the challenges, to scrape, to develop art. Contradiction teaches us a lot. He said that we can divide art into three parts - art itself, artist and audience.
Verma described the audience as the most important. He said that 99% of the artists do not adopt this hobby from the point of view of business, but because of hobbies and passion, and due to being attached to it for a long time, they also make it a source of livelihood.
He said that there have been many challenges before us, but in the present time due to the pandemic Corona, it has created a very big and difficult situation in front of contemporary theatre and folk arts. He said that art is a genre that brings juice, color, culture and civilization into life.
"We should keep practicing culture ans good deed by following our civilization and culture, which is associated with ethics, thoughts and behavior," he added.
Verma also shared various experiences of his cinema era with the audience and answered the questions about the theatre asked by the audience.
Notably, on October 2, under the ceremony, the presentation of Maihar Band- will be presented at the Swaraj Institute Directorate in the Shaurya Memorial Complex.