Goa Khabar: <\/strong>Sudhanva Deshpande, senior member of the Jan Natya Manch (Janam), one of the oldest street theatre groups in the country urged young people in Goa and across India to remain fearless and continue doing street theatre.<\/p>\n Sudhanva who has worked with the Late Safdar Hashmi and Moloyashree Hashmi, the co-founders of Janam was speaking on the topic: \u201cCircle in the Square: 50 years of street theatre\u201d at the concluding day of the 12th<\/sup> Goa arts and literature festival at the International Centre Goa on Saturday.<\/p>\n Tracing Janam\u2019s journey in street theatre through an effective power-point presentation, Sudhanva said that the trials and tribulations of the\u00a0 poor and underprivileged people were always central to their story telling. \u201cStreet theatre needs very little space. We can perform in the most minimal of spaces and to the smallest number of people,\u201d Sudhanva said.<\/p>\n He however mentioned how Janam had been primarily performing in the jhuggis and bastis of the working class people of Delhi and other northern Indian towns and cities.<\/p>\n Citing some of the more important street plays that they had performed, Sudhanva mentioned “Machine” which is short 12 minute play which speaks about the exploitation of workers at the hands of selfish factory owners. \u201cIt was a play that immediately resonated with the factory workers,\u201d Sudhanva said.<\/p>\n Sudhanva also mentioned \u201cChakka Jam\u201d, their 1988 play which saw a female factory worker demanding the need for a children\u2019s cr\u00e8che inside the factory.<\/p>\n Remembering Safdar Hashmi, co-founder of Janam who was brutally murdered near Delhi while performing a street play by political forces in 1989, Sudhanva said, \u201cOur group performed the same play at the exact spot where Safdar had been murdered, exactly two days after his death.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u00a0 Goa Khabar: Sudhanva Deshpande, senior member of the Jan Natya Manch (Janam), one of the oldest street theatre groups in the country urged young people in Goa and across India to remain fearless and continue doing street theatre. Sudhanva who has worked with the Late Safdar Hashmi and Moloyashree Hashmi, the co-founders of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25169,"featured_media":92568,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[155,6],"tags":[3794],"class_list":["post-92566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-155","category-6","tag-featured"],"read":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/25169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=92566"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92569,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92566\/revisions\/92569"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/92568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/goakhabar-com.preview.jikut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/18.02-298x300.jpg\")
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