Chirakumara Sabha

PLAYWRIGHT	        : RABINDRANATH TAGORE
TRANSLATION	        : B PUTTASWAMAYYA
DESIGN & DIRECTION	: MANJUNATH L BADIGER
MUSIC           	: GAJANANA HEGADE

SYNOPSIS :

ChirakumaraSabha is a Kannada translation of a Bengali play authored by Rabindranath Tagore. It is a slice of life play interlaced with mild humor.

ChirakumaraSabha is a small social committee constituted by members whose aim is to contribute to the betterment of society. The committee consists of Shirish, Bipin, Prof. Chandra Babu and others. All the members of this committee are sworn to bachelorhood. AkshayBabu, who used to be the head of this organization, has recently resigned from his post and is married to Purabala. Purabala’s mother, Jagattarini, her spinster sisters, Nirabala&Nrupabala and widowed sister, Shailabala, all stay at Akshay’s residence. Jagattarini is worried about her daughters’ marriage and is not able to find suitable grooms for them in a society plagued by the dowry system. RasikBabu, who helps Jagattarini in her search for suitable grooms, is not of much help. A disappointed Jagattarini leaves to Benaras with Purabala in search of grooms.

A concerned Shailabala hatches a plan to get Nirabala&Nrupabala married to Bipin&Shirish, who are staunch bachelors. How she implements her plan and succeeds with Akshay&RasikDada’s help forms the crux of the play. An offshoot of the play involves a love triangle between PurnaBabu, a new member of ChirakumaraSabha, Chandra Babu’s niece, Nirmala and another new member of ChirakumaraSabha, AbalakanthaBabu.

Things get more complicated when Jagattarini returns from Benaras after having succeeded in finding grooms for her daughters, who are now in love with Bipin and Shirish. The play climaxes with a resolution to all these complications.

CAST DETAILS

Akshya Kumar Parameshvara K
Purabala Vasundhara S P /TanjuaRudrayya
Jagatharini TanjuaRudrayya / Suma G A
Shailabala Dhanya Badiger
Neerabala Sowmyashri Jain
Nripabala Pallavi P Jadhav
Dharukeshwara / Chandra Babu Renuka Prasad H S
Mrithyunjaya Chaudhuri / Bera Sridhar M
Rasihka Dada Gangadhar Karikere
Shreesha Babau Padmaprasad Jain
Vipin Babu Harihara Kunmar
Vanamali Ranjith Kantharaj / Raghavendra Prasad C
Poorna Babu Harish Rudrayya
Nirmala Savitha A

BACK STAGE

Music / Keyboard Gajanana Hegade
Tabla Prashanth Hegade
Keyboard R B Nayak
Chorus Vasavi
Suma G A
Music Recording Selva
Costumes Vasundhara S P
Tanuja Rudrayya
Properties Vasundhara S P
Stage Gangadhar Karikere
Parameshwara K
Pradeep Kumar K S
Ranjith Kantharaj
Renuka Prasad H S
Harish Rudrayya
Management Manjunath M S
Bharath B S
Dhanjay B
Latha Olekar
Publicity Sudhakar Jain
Make Up Raghavendra Prasad C
Organising Jayathirtha B V
Lighting Ravindra Poojary
Design & Direction Manjunath L Badiger

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