Narendra Prasad's play draws the genuine story of a lady who lived in the capital's wayside
In the mid 1980s, performer and writer Narendra Prasad composed a play on the awful existence of a lady who was lost in her dreamland.
The play which was distributed in an artistic magazine was never performed in front of an audience.
Presently, the dramatization troupe Natyagriham, of which he was one of the authors, will bring in front of an audience the play titled 'Rani Ammachi'.
Coordinating the play will be M.K. Gopalakrishnan, one of Narendra Prasad's peers and a prime supporter of Natyagriham.
"The story is around a lady named Sundari Chellamma, who used to live by the wayside in the Fort region in Thiruvananthapuram city. Old-clocks are acquainted with the account of how she was profoundly adoring of the lord and how this bhakti and adoration made her lose her brain. She exited her family and home and began living out and about close to the Padmanabhaswamy sanctuary. Once Narendra Prasad indicated out this lady me. Later, he kept in touch with this play with her as the focal character," says Mr. Gopalakrishnan.
He says that the play talks in regards to the bigger issue of ladies who are underestimated in patriarchal social orders. Narendra Prasad took her story and brought components of fiction into it.
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"Narendra Prasad included one more character called Mathai to her story. He is someone else living on the same road. He is likewise similar to her in that he is lost in his dreamland of having a glad family life. These two individuals strike up a far-fetched companionship," he says.
The seeds of Natyagriham were sowed in the late 1970s, when Narendra Prasad, a school educator then, began composing plays for the yearly theater celebration of the Postal Accounts representatives. It turned into an undeniable show troupe in 1979 with acclaimed plays like 'Souparnika', "Ira" and Kadammanitta Ramakrishnan's Malayalam interpretation of Waiting for Godot. Yet, by 1986, the theater troupe backed off and in the long run quit performing.
In 2013, Gopalakrishnan and different companions of Narendra Prasad got together to restore Natyagriham. The gathering sorted out a theater celebration comprising solely of dramatist Omchery N.N. Pillai's plays.
A year ago, they paid a tribute to the gathering's organizer with a Narendra Prasad Theater Festival, when his acclaimed plays were performed by different gatherings from over the State.
The play 'Rani Ammachi' will be arranged at VJT Hall at 6 p.m. on July 19.
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