CURATED BY – UMESH KUSHWAHA | CITYCHIEFNEWS

Satna, Aakar Welfare Society Satna staged the play Anand Raghunandan again, which had two consecutive presentations, the first presentation on 16 October at Sharadotsav Chitrakoot and the second presentation on 19 October at Jaipuria School Auditorium, Satna.

The play written by Maharaja Vishwanath Singh was performed in its folk dialect Bagheli under the direction of young theatre artist Amit Kumar Shukla and Shubham Bari, whose Bagheli translation and editing was done by Yogesh Tripathi ji and the entire presentation was managed and coordinated by Anamika Singh ji. There is such a wonderful combination of visual coordination, music and acting in the play that it has the amazing capability to keep the audience enthralled for a 2 hour presentation. When the play, prepared after a month's hard work, reached the ashram of Lord Ram to tell his story, the energy and enthusiasm increased fourfold and getting a rich platform like Sharad Mahotsav is like the play getting the true respect. In the music-oriented play, Virendra Jani from Ujjain was specially called for percussion playing and Ajay Soni ji from Gwalior for flute playing, and not only Pushpendra Pandey from Satna was there for music composition and singing. The main actors in the play are Ankit Kushwaha, Akshay Valeja, Abhishek Chaudhary, Amitesh Sen, Harsh Vardhan Singh, Aman Verma, Sagar Sen, Rahul Chaurasia, Aman Soni, Pushpendra Pandey, Virendra Jani, Ajay Soni, Shivam Chaudhary, Satyam Chaudhary, Anvesha Singh, Pooja Kushwaha, Pooja Sen, Abhilash Soni, Andri Singh, Anamika Singh, Amit Shukla, Devendra Verma, Devanshu Singh, Anshu Kushwaha, Lakhan Tripathi, Anurag Srivastava, Mayank Agnihotri, Prakash Tripathi, Rupali Krishnani, Vikramendra Singh. Impressed by the presentation of the play, the director of Jaipuria School, Mr. Pushpraj Singh gave 11,000 and the director of Shri Ramakrishna, Shammi Puri gave 11,000 as well as Assistant Commissioner GST, Mr. Vipin Dubey gave 5100 rupees to encourage the artists.