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Volume 16 . Issue 72
Filmfare, National, and BAFTA award-winning actress and thespian Rohini Hattangady is set to perform Gujarati play, Baa Tane Hu Kya Rakhu, in Auckland later this month.
A Gujarati family drama with a strong message about motherhood, the play revolves around Mangla Divecha (Rohini Hattangady), who after the death of her husband finds herself shuffling between the houses of her two sons. She is happy despite her daughters-in-law's daunting natures. Around the same time, some major events take place in her life. Mangla's decision to deal with those events takes the story forward.
The play was originally written in Marathi by Ashok Patole and has been adapted in Gujarati by Vinod Sarvaiya. Notable faces from the theatre such as Parag Shah, Tulika Patel Thakkar, Druma Mehta, Manil Mehta, Rajani Shantaram, and Nilesh Pandya will be seen in the play.
Rohini is a renowned Indian actress. She is often recollected for her role as Kasturba Gandhi in 1982’s Gandhi where she starred alongside Sir Ben Kingsley, a strong character of Suhasini Chauhan from Amitabh Bachchan’s Agneepath in 1990, and as Sanjay Dutt’s mother in 2002 blockbuster Munnabhai MBBS.
“With such a big name in both Bollywood and Gujarati theatre world, the show is almost house-full at this point of time, with only a few tickets left to be sold,” says Nitin Upadhyay, from V3 Events NZ, the organisers of the show in Auckland.
The play will be held on Sunday, November 20, from 6:30 p.m. at Dorothy Winston Centre, Freemans Bay, Auckland.
Filmfare, National, and BAFTA award-winning actress and thespian Rohini Hattangady is set to perform Gujarati play, Baa Tane Hu Kya Rakhu, in Auckland later this month.
A Gujarati family drama with a strong message about motherhood, the play revolves around Mangla Divecha (Rohini Hattangady), who...
Filmfare, National, and BAFTA award-winning actress and thespian Rohini Hattangady is set to perform Gujarati play, Baa Tane Hu Kya Rakhu, in Auckland later this month.
A Gujarati family drama with a strong message about motherhood, the play revolves around Mangla Divecha (Rohini Hattangady), who after the death of her husband finds herself shuffling between the houses of her two sons. She is happy despite her daughters-in-law's daunting natures. Around the same time, some major events take place in her life. Mangla's decision to deal with those events takes the story forward.
The play was originally written in Marathi by Ashok Patole and has been adapted in Gujarati by Vinod Sarvaiya. Notable faces from the theatre such as Parag Shah, Tulika Patel Thakkar, Druma Mehta, Manil Mehta, Rajani Shantaram, and Nilesh Pandya will be seen in the play.
Rohini is a renowned Indian actress. She is often recollected for her role as Kasturba Gandhi in 1982’s Gandhi where she starred alongside Sir Ben Kingsley, a strong character of Suhasini Chauhan from Amitabh Bachchan’s Agneepath in 1990, and as Sanjay Dutt’s mother in 2002 blockbuster Munnabhai MBBS.
“With such a big name in both Bollywood and Gujarati theatre world, the show is almost house-full at this point of time, with only a few tickets left to be sold,” says Nitin Upadhyay, from V3 Events NZ, the organisers of the show in Auckland.
The play will be held on Sunday, November 20, from 6:30 p.m. at Dorothy Winston Centre, Freemans Bay, Auckland.
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