BWW Previews: BANDISH 20-20000 HZ at Jamshed Bhabha Theatre, NCPA, Mumbai

Travelling through a wonderful maze of seven decades chronicling relationships, emotions and cultures Purva Naresh's Bandish 20-20000 Hz will soon be showed in Mumbai after having completed a successful run in Delhi.

Bandish 20-20000Hz, an Aditya Birla Group's theatre initiative is an engaging story about two singers. The riveting anecdotes that the two singers share forms the subject matter of the play. While one of the singers in a naatanki singer, the other one is a baithak (classical) singer. Both performers try to reminicise about their hey days and share wit laced, sharp, snappy tales ranging from escapes from kings' palaces, getting kidnapped by the local zamindars, refuting lovelorn nawabs and getting duped by charming and conniving men in the name of love and marriage. Each anecdote when described is followed by a music and dance number. Both the story as well as the performances takes the audiences into an era that is charming but bygone. And that is what makes the show memorable to watch.

Director Purva Naresh, talking about the play, says, "It is a play about four artistes, two of whom are yesteryear singers from different disciplines. As they reminisce and dwell in some alluring nostalgia, they also work through human politicking, generational and cultural gaps with the other two young artistes, as the younger ones are affected by the conversations between them. They travel through time via their stories and look through life and relationships with some renewed perspective."

Schedule : Bandish

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June 17th, Saturday - 7:30 PM - JBT, NCPA

June 18th, Sunday - 4 PM & 7:30 PM - JBT, NCPA

July 29th, Saturday - 7:30 PM - St. Andrews Auditorium, Bandra

July 30th, Sunday - 4 PM & 7:30 PM - St. Andrews Auditorium, Bandra