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Timing |
: 18:30 onwards. |
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Start Date |
: December 4, 2011 |
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End Date |
: December 4, 2011 |
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Category |
: Theater |
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Venue |
: Academy of Fine Arts, Circus Avenue |
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City |
: Kolkata, West Bengal [India] |
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| Written by: Bhisham Sahni; Directed by: Smt Swatilekha Sengupta; When Galab offers Gurudakshina to Vishwamitra, the latter in an attempt to teach him humility, demands eight hundred Ashwamedha horses. Unable to meet this demand, and driven by divine intervention he arrives at Yayati’s hermitage. Yayati has nothing to offer to him except his daughter Madhabi, endowed with boons of eternal virginity and the gift of begetting sons destined to be king of kings. What follows is the great drama of Madhabi in quest of eight hundred Ashwamedha horses. Amidst several cross-currents the play explores different aspects of Madhabi-her duty, her love and her identity. |