| Directed by Mahmood Farooqui Produced by Anusha Rizvi Dastango - Darain Shahidi, late Ankit Chadha, Poonam Girdhani, Annie Zaidi and others |
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| The Dastan-e sedition is an allegorical take on contemporary India. It is framed around a sedition case that was conducted against Dr. Binayak Sen, the award-winning doctor and public health activist of Raipur. It questions our notions of development and progress through the character of Amar, a renowned trickster. Amar is also witnessing to the farcical trial of the doctor. Amar and his disciple decide to make a plan to rescue the doctor. The performance begins with a couplet from a poem written by the first Hindi Ghazal writer of India, Dushyant Kumar echoing the frustration of people during the Emergency imposed in 1975. |
Modeled on Tilism-e-Hoshruba, the most famous episode of the oldest known dastan, Dastan-e-Amir Hamza, Dastan-e-Sedition is a farcical take on the political situation in India. |
Kahaan toh tayy tha chiragaan har ek ghar ke liye,
Kahaan charaag mayassar nahin shahar ke liye.
