The Plays

Date : October 19th, 2005 Director : Pratyush Singh Production Managers : Playwright : Pratyush Singh , Vineet Kumar , Abhinav Kimothi , Ishan Shukla & Ashwini Kumar Chakre Form : Stage Play Type : Oasis Entry Cast : Rahul Shukla : Ishan Shukla Harsh : Ashwini Kumar Chakre Bunty : Vivek Tiwari Teacher : Pratyush Singh Richa : Apeksha Godiyal Bhai : Chanakya Bhardwaj Pita : Prabhat Ranjan Singh Mannequins (Blue) : Vineet Kumar , Rachana Reddy , Aditya Aney Mannequins (Red) : Abhinav Kimothi , Afshan M Khan , Mukul Malhotra Wife : Archana Srivastava Child : Malhar Mehta Second Staging Date : April 1st, 2006 Director : Pratyush Singh Production Managers : Playwright : Pratyush Singh , Vineet Kumar , Abhinav Kimothi , Ishan Shukla & Ashwini Kumar Chakre Form : Stage Play Type : Semester Production Cast : Rahul Shukla : Ishan Shukla Harsh : Ashwini Kumar Chakre Bunty : Vivek Tiwari Teacher : Sudipt Richa : Ajeytaa Agarwal Bhai : Chanakya Bhardwaj Pita : P...

Date : November 12th, 2005 Directors : Apeksha Godiyal Production Managers : Pratyush Singh Playwright : Form : Stage Play Type : Theatre Workshop Cast : Vivek - Saikat Banerjee Principal - Rahul Kundu Maths Teacher - Kapil Jamkar Physics Teacher - Sikander Mashayak Social Science - Anurag Ambekar Chaprasi - Chandra Prakash Jethani The Play : Refund is a Hindi adaptation of the famous Hungarian play by the same name. Its a subtle satire on the existing educational setup. The protagnist Vivek is an unemployed youth, who suddenly gets the bright idea of demanding his tuition fees back... of all the years of education in school. He goes back to his principal and puts forth his peculiar demand. He reasons that the school gave him no useful or significant knowledge and so is entitled to reimbursement of the tuition fees. He also compels them to take his examination on all subjects to prove that he's learnt virtually nothing. What follows, is a immensely comical situation......

Date : October 15th, 2003 Directors : Vasuta Agarwal & Aditi Nath Production Manager : Playwright : Form : Stage Play Type : Oasis Entry Cast : Bhagat Singh : Pratyush Singh Chandrashekhar Azad : Vishal Gupta Sukhdev : Paritosh Modi Rajguru : Naresh Sharma Vijay : Bhoopendra Bhagat Singh ki Maa : Vasuta Agarwal Simon : Akbar Kamal lawyer/jailer/warder : Raheem Darediya Numberdaar - Abhinav Kimothi Court Officer - Rajesh Agrawal Judge - Pranav The Play : Bhagat Singh Ki Wapasi as the name suggests had a strong patriotic theme with Bhagat Singh as the central character. The play revolved around the rebellion of Bhagat Singh and his comrades against the British and their cruelty. Whether it be the torture of Bhagat Singh in prison or his court hearing or the hanging of the 3 prisoners at the end of the play, the scenes brought a patriotic fervor in all who watched it. With 2 girl diroz handling an all guys' cast, it was quite a task especially when it came to early morning...

Date : September 26th, 2005 Directors : Apeksha Godiyal & Afshan M Khan Playwrights : Badal Sarkar Form : Stage Play Type : CEERI Production Production Team : Vineet Kumar , Abhinav Kimothi , Rachana Reddy , Ashwini Kumar Sounds : Vishal Gupta , Abhishek Sinha Lights : Malhar Mehta , Aqsa Musthaq Makeup : Pratyush Singh Cast : Shambhunath Sengupta - Prabhat Ranjan Singh Tuttul - Afshan M Khan Adima Sengupta - Ajeytaa Agarwal Saumain Chaterjee - Chanakya Bhardwaj Hari - Suraj Kumar Ramesh - Aditya Aney Bela Chaterjee - Sharad Verma Ganesh - Aditya Aney Dr Khastgir - Devdatt Akhawe Geeta - Surbhi Kango The Play : Solution X is the story of a mad scientist, Dr Sengupta, obsessed with the idea of inventing a drug to arrest ageing. He is a typical forgetful and absent minded scientist. He had worked tirelessly for his aim, ignoring his other worldly duties. After years of work on this project his experiment was near completion and he was desperate to try it on animals... and then ...

Prem Nagar Ki Dagar Date : September 12th, 2003 Form : Stage Play Directors : Akbar Kamal & Pratyush Singh Production Managers : Cast : Kiku : Aditya Aney Chintamani Sarnobat : Raheem Darediya Bunty Sarnobat : Mandar Sovani Sumangala : Anushri Rathi Tukaram : Abhinav Kimothi Bindumadhav : Vineet Kumar Durgavati : Nazneen Shafiq Titu : Abhishek Agrawal Shivaji : Naresh Sharma Gauri : Afshan M Khan Bhagwan : Uday Dhoke Shama Nasir Ali : Priyanka Bansal The Play : The Brochure: to be printed soon...

Date : January, 2003 Directors : Swati Agarwal & Shantanu Goel Production Team : Ashish Bhargava , Vasuta Agarwal & Pratyush Singh Playwright : Mohan Rakesh Form : Stage Play Type : Second Production Cast : Fandi - Arvind Khilnani Advocate - Ashish Korde Jailer - Shantanu Goel The Play : Fandi is a truck driver who gets entangled in murder of his father. The psychology of a son, who is seeing his father die moment by moment, supported with brilliant script and excellent characters, is penned down by Mohan Rakesh. HDC staged the play for the second time in 2002, first semester. The continuous dialogues of 2 pages were delivered fantastically by Kor. Khillu playing all kind of characters in 1 hour-court room scene was an inspiration in itself. Script and characters were so well knitted in the play that we had no choice other than performing it to the best. Hats off to Khillu and Kor. Swati and Shantanu directed the play with the help of production team of three pe...

Date : February 11th , 2003 Directors : Smitkant Raturi & Sandeep Gade Production Managers : Paritosh Modi & Aparajita Playwright : Ranbir Singh Form : Stage Play Type : Semester Production Cast : Madan - Vishal Gupta Usha - Alpika Mishra Dr. Ghosh - Shantanu Goel Ajit - Naresh Sharma Arvind - Raheem Darediya SalesGirl - Afshan M Khan Sapne Wali Ladki - Priyanka Bansal Mohan - Vishal Naidu The Play : The play is about a hypochondriac guy, Madan. One day he overhears his doctor talking on the phone about a guy who has a weak heart and is going to die. Madan assumes that his doctor is talking about him.He starts to plan his loving and innocent wife’s future... her marriage... in such eventuality.. Due to his detached behavior his wife starts thinking that he's having an affair. This complicates the plot a bit more but all clears up as Madan realises that he's not dying and then clarifies Usha's fears.. The Gallery : The Brochure:

Date : October 2002 Director : Swati Agarwal Production Managers : - Playwright : Based on a short story by Premchand Form : Street Play Type : Oasis Entry Cast : Nat - Shantanu Goel Natti - Vasuta Agarwal Jamid - Pratyush Singh Kazi Zoravar Hussain - Raheem Darediya Pandit Gajanand Chaturvedi - Prabhat Bhaduria Mullah - Paritosh Modi Panditayen - Aditi Nath Sethiya - Vaibhav Karkare Pandit - Akbar Kamal Moorgiwalla / Villager 1 - Shelly Agarwal Lakshmi bahen - Aprajita Villager 3 - Sachin Gaekwad Minar/crowd - Alpika Mishra Nazaqat / Cameraman - Naresh Sharma Sharafat - Bhoopendra Villager 2 / Aslam - Vijendra Singh Om - Omkar Kurode newsreporter - Shilpa Deshmukh The Play : Hinsa Parmo Dharama is a story about how a society, deeply divided by the concerns of religion, try to poison an innocent mind, to misuse a mans very existence for their own well being, and to make religion both a weapon and an armour to provoke communal abhorrence amongst all. It is about how Jamid , fre...

Date : Directors : Naresh Sharma & Mehul Jain Production Managers : Piyush Maskey & Vishakha Gupta Playwright : Form : Stage Play Type : Semester Production Cast : The Play : The Gallery : The Brochure: to be printed soon...

Date : October 2002 & March 2003 Directors : Swati Agarwal & Anvita Mishra Production Managers : - Playwright : original by Jean Paul Satre Form : Stage Play Type : Oasis Entry Cast : Fransua - Mehul Jain Kanauris - Shantanu Goel Auri - Arvind Khilnani Saurbiyar - Sandeep Gade Joan - Swati Agarwal Smith - Smitkant Raturi Kloshe - Ashish Korde Landriye - Ashwani Tikoo Pilrey - Naresh Sharma German sipahi - Shelly Agarwal / Kapil Sangawan / Ashish Bhargava The Play : Maut ke Saye Mein is a hindi adaptation of the critically acclaimed play "Morts sans sepulture" (Men without shadows) by french laureate Jean Paul Satre. It is a play based in the dark ages of French Revolution when the very existence of human free will was under the strict vigilance of the Nazis. The story is about five prisoners of war who await their turn to be tested against the Nazis one by one. Inspite of its background, the play is entirely just about one thing - "human emotion under tr...

Date : August 31st, 2001 Directors : Shantanu Goel & Smitkant Raturi Production Managers : Ashish Bhargava & Swati Agarwal Playwright : Narendra Kohli Form : Stage Play Type : Semester Production Cast : Banarsi Das - Ashish Korde Anil - Arvind Khilnani Shalini - Vasuta Agarwal Vajyanti - Pallavi Borse Khanna - Spandan Sharma Stri2 - Aishwarya Singh Stri1 - Alpika Mishra Purush2 - Ajay Kulkarni Purush1 - Amit Bajaj Shanti - Anshul Mehta Kartikeya Misra The Play : The play revolves around the family whose youngest son is murdered. It starts with the news of the youngest son being murdered while trying to save a family from dacoits. His family is quick to accept this fact and display their pride for him. But as the story unfolds they realise that their son was linked in criminal activities and had a secret affair. They are aghast to learn this and even refuse to accept his girlfriend as one of their own. Later on when they come to know that their son had hidden a lot of m...

Date : Directors : Prashant Biwal & Swati Agarwal Production Managers : Playwright : Form : Stage Play Type : Cast : The Play : The Brochure: to be printed soon...

Date : February 14th, 2002 Directors : Arvind Khilnani & PDP Production Managers : Swati Agarwal & Ram Deshpande Playwright : Mohan Maharshi Form : Stage Play Type : Semester Production Cast : Einstein - Sandeep Gade Young Einstein - Shantanu Goel Baccha Einstein - Mehul Jain Kepler - Naresh Sharma Galileo - Ashish Korde Miliva - Vasuta Agarwal Margarette - Shuchi Marcel - Paritosh Modi Michael - Ashish Bhargava Christian Teacher - Shelly Max - Karthikeya Misra Balika 1 & 2 - Aparajita Helen - Mandeep Gypsy Jadugar - Smitkant Raturi Gypsy Ladki - Aditi Nath Moti Aurat - Alpika Mishra Aristotle - Vishal Gupta Disciple 1 - Vivek Tripathi Disciple 2 - Pratyush Singh Disciple 3 - Rahul The Play : The Gallery : The Brochure:

Date : Directors : Manish Tahilyani & Ramprasad Kamath Production Managers : Kalpesh Patel and Shelly Aggarwal Playwright : Manish Tahilyani & Ramprasad Kamath Form : Stage Play Type : Semester Production Cast : Collector Hukum Chand : Prashant Biwal Iqbal : Bipin Deosthale Jagga : Arvind Khilnani Jagga ki maa : Vishakha Gupta Imam Chacha : Ram Deshpande Imam ki beti (Nooran) : Prajkta Prabhu Lala/Gurudware ka rakhwala : Sumeet Gupta Lala ki patni : Swati Agarwal Daroga : Ashish Korde Hawaldar1 : P Jagdish Malli : Ashwani Kumar Malli ki gang ka daku1 : Pratik Shukla Malli ki gang ka daku2 : Naresh Sharma Yuvak : Kapil Sangwan Bhai Meet Singh : Sumukh Kulkarni The Play : The setting for the play is a village close to the Pakistan border just after independence. Communal tensions are just beginning to stem but the village as such is peaceful and calm. The play shows various forces operating – communal harmony, communal hatred, law and administration – at several levels. ...

Ek Aur Dronacharya Date : Form : Stage Play Directors : Production Managers : Playwright : Cast : The Play : The Brochure: to be printed soon...

Mujhe Kuch Kehna Hai Date : Form : Stage Play Directors : Production Managers : Playwright : Cast : The Play : The Brochure: to be printed soon...

Mere Bacche Date : Form : Stage Play Directors : Production Managers : Playwright : Cast : The Play : The Brochure: to be printed soon...

Date : Directors : Ramprasad Kamath Production Managers : Manish Gupta Playwright : Arthur Miller (“Death of a Salesman”, translated into Hindi by J N Kaushal) Form : Stage Play Type : Semester Production Cast : Ramdas : Prashant Biwal Savitri : Anvita Mishra Bannu : Sumeet Gupta Harshi : Smitkant Raturi Balwant : Ram Deshpande Neeta : Swati Agarwal Charandas : Arvind Khilnani Suraj : Siddharth Toshniwal Gulab : Ashish Korde Waiter : Pankaj Nathani Callgirl : Prerna Goel The Play : This is the Hindi translation of the English play “Death of a Salesman” – considered to be one of the best plays of all time. Some elements of the original play were adapted to suite an Indian background. The story revolves around the life of Ramdas – a mediocre salesman working for Gulab. It is about how his failure with his job affects his wife Savitri and two sons Harshi and Bannu. When Ramdas is finally fired he is unable to take the news and pleads for a second chance but to no avail. His family,...

Date : Directors : Bipin Deosthale & Ramprasad Kamath Production Managers : Siddharth Toshniwal Playwright : Vijay Tendulkar Form : Stage Play Type : Semester Production Cast : Sutradhar (Anil Kapoor) : Manan Rastogi Saru ke pita (Anna) : Abhishek Singh Saru (Saraswati) : Rajul Jain Saru ki maa : Shubhra Kumar Saru ka bhai (Banda) : V Srinivas Saru ka pati : Sumeet Gupta Chota Baccha : Siddharth Toshniwal The Play : The play is about a simpleton girl, Saraswati (Saru), who is overdue for marriage. Despite the best attempts by parents to find her a suitable boy and get her married off - she is rejected by every suitor that comes along. The consequent frustrations have strained relations between everyone in the family. Enter!! A stranger who claims acquaintance with the family by virtue of having lived in their neighbourhood. He very quickly charms the parents who broach her daughter’s problems with him. He talks her into realizing that she need not be bogged down by others’ ...

O Janmya Hi Nahi Date : Form : Stage Play Directors : Production Managers : Playwright : Cast : The Play : The Brochure: to be printed soon...

Date : November 6th, 2004 Directors : Apeksha Godiyal & Anushri Rathi Production Managers : Aditya Aney & Uday Dhoke Playwright : Ajay Shukla Form : Stage Play Type : Theatre Workshop Cast : Nrutak - Abhinav,Swapnil,Vijendra,Yogesh,Bipin Stree - Sonam,Gauri Shahajahn - Yashwant Darbari - Aditya,Sunil,Nilesh,Mehul Sharmaji - Ashish Vermaji - Amber Sudhir - Ashutosh Bhaiyaji - Rahul Bansal - Salman Chaprasi - Deepak Neta-1 - Apurva Neta-2 - Govind Neta’s Wife - Anshuli Sethi - Raman Khan - Vivek Chopra - Dheeraj Jahan Aara - Neelam The Play : Taj Mahal ka Tender is a social and political satire. It deals with the pressing issue of wide spread Corruption in India. The dramatist has potrayed a situation where Shah Jahan, the Mughal Emperor, is reigning in today's times and intends to build the Taj Mahal to commemorate the death of his beloved. He entrusts this task to his Chief Engineers and owing to the deep rooted corruption he waits in vain till his death... for j...

Date : April 9th, 2005 Directors : Pratyush Singh & Vineet Kumar Production Managers : Playwright : Shankar Shesh Form : Stage Play Type : Theatre Workshop Cast : The Play : Gallery : The Brochure: to be printed soon...

Date : September, 2004 Directors : Afshan M Khan & Abhishek Agrawal Production Managers : Rajesh Agrawal & Nikeeta Bhise Playwright : Badal Sarkar Form : Stage Play Type : Semester Production Cast : Anu - Apeksha Godiyal Shambhu - Pratyush Singh Druvesh - Prabhat Ranjan Singh Yogin - Vineet Kumar Anath - Prabal Sharma Buaji - Rachana Reddy Nitaida - Raheem Darediya Phufaji - Abhinav Kimothi Prompter - Sunaina Rajiv - Atit Jain Mrs.Sen - Surabhi Dewra Munna - Aditya Aney Shashank - Jaspreet Singh Notey Munni - Shruti Patil Mr. Sen - Uday Dhoke Jagat - Roshan Bondse Bhabi - Anushri Rathi The Play : Badi Buaji - an absolute rib-tickler depicting unending problems faced by an amateur theatre group trying to put up a play for their colony. With the rehearsals taking place in the drawing room of Annu’s house, the sudden visit of dear buaji creates a massive problem! Though daddy Yogin is a cool supporter of the young artists, playing spoilsport to their aspirations of s...

Date : March 12th, 2005 Directors : Afshan M Khan & Apeksha Godiyal Production Managers : - Playwright : K.P.Saxena Form : Open Theather Type : Second Production Cast : Pokharmal - Paritosh Modi Pokharmal's Wife - Sonali Ghosh Tillu - Piyush Agarwal Jugni - Zaira Zahir Yuvak - Aditya Aney Gullo - Khushboo Saraf Saindas - Rahul Lakhmani The Play : Gaj Foot Inch is a brilliant comedy, revolving around a business family. Mr. Pokharmal is the head of the family and is a cloth merchant. His son Tillu, is wholly involved in the family business and like a typical calculating business man, his world is limited to profits, lucre and revenues. He is quite worldly wise but when it comes to the opposite sex and romance, he's very naive. For this reason, his parents are worried about his marriage. He's always uninterested in girls... untill he meets Jugni, whom his parents want as their daughter in law. Jugni is a well educated and refined girl. The rest of the play shows ho...

Date : February, 2004 Directors : Pratyush Singh & Raheem Darediya Production Managers : Sushant Ambulkar & Priyanka Bansal Playwright : Vasant Kanetkar Form : Stage Play Type : Semester Production Cast : Mukta - Vasuta Agarwal Laxmi - Nazneen Shafiq Gangaram - Pratik Naphade Jaysingh - Pratyush Singh Nandu - Neharika Prabhat Rajiv - Prabhat Bhaduria Hema - Archana Srivastava Devdutt - Abhinav Kimothi Dr.Dubhashi - Vineet Kumar The Play : The Brochure:

Date : April 4th, 2004 Directors : Alpika Mishra , Vasuta Agarwal , Raheem Darediya & Pratyush Singh Production Managers : - Playwright : K. P. Saxena Form : Stage Play Type : Theatre Workshop Cast : Nurbaksh - Kapil Vikas - Rahul Minu - Nithya Lily - Jay Mrs. Iyer - Shiva Doodhwallah - Abhijeet Anokhi Devi - Radhika Goonga Baap - Piyush Fazal Chacha - Amit Nakli Baap - Satish Asli Baap - Thakur The Play : Baap Re Baap was the first play with which Theatre Workshop was conceptualized. The play had a comedy theme and was centered around a family where the couple thinks that their father is lost and announce a reward for him. From the servant of the family (Noorbaksh) cracking jokes every now and then and trying to woo the “pretty” family friend to strange neighbours who keep dropping in to sympathize with the couple to frauds who keep coming to claim the reward, the play had the audience laughing all the way. With first timers on stage, non hindi speaking cast members ...

Date : September 3rd,2005 Directors : Vineet Kumar & Abhinav Kimothi Production Managers : Afshan M Khan & Aditya Aney Playwright : Badal Sarkar Form : Stage Play Type : Semester Production Cast : Sharad Nag - Ishan Shukla Vasanti - Khushboo Aggarwal Vasudev - Himanshu Kerni Kanak - Apeksha Godiyal Nikhil - Ritesh Agarwal Sitanath Chakravarti - Pratyush Singh Agantuk - Rwitajit Majumdar Kanak Ka Baap - Sankalp Kathuria Vijay - Mukul Malhotra Vidhubhushan Babu - Prabhat Ranjan Singh The Play : Itihaas - The history of a common man... struggle to survive... birth, childhood, education, job, marriage, family, death. Baaki Itihaas - The history of mankind... fights, riots, wars, death, destruction, exploitation, molestation.... Baaki Itihaas - a beautifully narrated story of man and mankind. How man in trying to give a meaning to his life tortures the rest of mankind. How man after reaching a stand still in his life, in search of a new goal in his life, intentionally or uni...

Date : March 13, 2004 Directors : Naresh Sharma & Raheem Darediya Production Manager : Pratik Naphade Playwright : Shankar Shesh Form : Stage Play Type : Second Production Cast : Judge - Vineet Kumar Chor - Pratyush Singh Padosi - Naresh Sharma The Play : Aadhi Raat ke Baad is one play which everyone will remember for a long time. Not just because it had two great actors performing together, not because the first-time-production-manager Pratik Naphade showed such promise in this play and tried a totally different marketing strategy, not because we completed the play in just 8 days and not because HDC was having its first off-campus diro and off-campus actor. But more importantly, this was the play where one can see the strength HDCites have in them, the determination and dedication that they put in each of their plays, the enthu, the chool, the energy that they derive from within because they love their club. The actors had the toughest acting schedule one has ever seen, f...