A two-day drama fest ‘Aaroh’ began with symposium and Rang Sangeet at Shaheed Bhavan auditorium here on Friday.
The festival is being organised by Vihan Theatre Group, Bhopal. Notably, it is first fest of this theatre group. Being the first theatre fest, the group had presented something interesting to woo the audience. The group organised Rang Sangeet, a different theatre concept, which is just like a musical concert. The theatre group presented the songs which were especially composed for the theatre productions.
Moreover, the theatre group presented the songs of plays including Subhadra, Kanupriya, ‘Ek Khani Bastar Ki’, ‘Prem patanga’ which are the productions of this group only and these songs were presented in Rang Sangeet.
The songs like ‘O Path Ke Kinare…’, ‘Chhayadar Pawan Ashok Vriksha, ‘Ye jo Dophar Ke Sannate…’, ‘Dhanya Dhanya ho bastar ki chandan mati…’, ‘lahar lahar Chali…’, ‘Sandook mein kya bhara hai…’ and more were performed wonderfully on stage leaving the audience It was presented by the artists of this group including ‘Shweta Ketkar, Ankit, yogesh Parihar, Smiriti, Shivani, Heera . And the music was composed by Hemant Devlekar.
Apart from this, the programme began with the symposium on topic ‘Role of songs and music in theatre plays’. The main speakers of this symposium were noted art critic Vinay Upadhyay and Bhushan Bhatt. They highlighted over the history and importance of music in theatres and how it helps the play to become even more zestful for the audience.
A play ‘Prem Patanga’ directed by Saurabh Anant will be staged on Saturday.