Sanskriti Foundation, Nasik celebrated 150th birth anniversary of Revered Rabindranath Tagore. Foundation came up with a breathtaking concept to mark Tagore’s invaluable contribution to Indian literature and presented a play titled ‘Chitrangada’. This act was an arty mishmash of drama and dance and was performed at an event held in Parshuram Saikhedkar auditorium, Nasik. Nashikites rushed to spot such an incredible theatre festivity.

‘Chitrangada’ is originally written by Tagore himself in Bengali language, whereas writer Gangaram Gavankar translated the script into Marathi and improvised it based on dance and drama. The story trails the lives of Manipur’s princess Chitrangada and self-disciplined Arjun. Arjun is shown as an unmarried man who once encounters with Chitrangada, a beautiful woman wearing manly outfits. Seeing Chitrangada’s mannish appearance, Arjun ignores her beauty. The princess who was literally worshiping Arjun since her childhood get disturbed after experiencing rudeness of her man-of-dream. But meanwhile, Arjun finds himself falling for her and there the new love story kicks off. The same love story is revealed in this play.

Girish Oak performed the character of Arjun while Shubhada Varadkar was casted as Chitrangada. Amol Bavdekar and Pramod Pawar supported the act by performing characters of Madan and Ruturaj Vasant respectively. The play was directed by Laxmikant Karpe and had music by Vijay Tambe and Pradipto Sengupta. Chel Paresh looked after drapery, Ajay Kasurde handled lights and background music was given by Sanjivani Bhelande.