Roop Aroop

This play has the popular performing tradition of"NAUTANKI"as its backdrop. Till a few years ago (and in some parts even today) men adorn the female persona who is passed on from generation to generation. However, towards the middle of the previous century, women set foot on this stage. Most of them from the"BEDIN"community who are singers and dancers by caste and birth. They perform in festivals and occasions like marriage the stage was a distant dream, it meant dignity as a performer. The man may exit but the popular female persona that continues to persist.

The male actor must give up his place where the woman steps on the stage to stake her claim to space hitherto denied to her. Reality invades the notional, non-real and the crafted world of image. An era is started in to the truth and inevitability of its closure. The struggle to perpetuate its creative span weaves a yarn of many shades. Transience prevails and each one of us must yield almost as if to the compulsion of death as it which overtakes life in the ultimate chain of recycling. Yet undeniably the pain of
displacement is real, Roop Aroop is about that moment that shifts a fleeting span of creative glimpse that nevertheless leaves its mark on times that ensue,