Jhoom Jhoom Jhumpa
Children’s Play in English/Hindi
(100 mins)
In the magical world of Ul-Albela, Jhumpa has only one thing on her super intelligent mind – to make the best tea in the world. She is unaware of the mayhem she has caused in the Bat Kingdom, and of the Raja’s bumbling ministers desperate to please their over-competitive king. An adventure unfolds when these worlds collide. Will Jhumpa’s life ever be the same again?
Written & Directed by Sapan Saran
Music Composers: Kaizad Gherda, Rohit Das & Asif Ali Beg
Musicians: Santanu Ghatak & Ritesh Malaney
Cast: Padma Damodaran, Bhushan Vikas, Priyanka Kotwal, Prashant Amlani, Rohit Das & others
A Tamaasha Theatre Production
(100 mins)
In the magical world of Ul-Albela, Jhumpa has only one thing on her super intelligent mind – to make the best tea in the world. She is unaware of the mayhem she has caused in the Bat Kingdom, and of the Raja’s bumbling ministers desperate to please their over-competitive king. An adventure unfolds when these worlds collide. Will Jhumpa’s life ever be the same again?
Written & Directed by Sapan Saran
Music Composers: Kaizad Gherda, Rohit Das & Asif Ali Beg
Musicians: Santanu Ghatak & Ritesh Malaney
Cast: Padma Damodaran, Bhushan Vikas, Priyanka Kotwal, Prashant Amlani, Rohit Das & others
A Tamaasha Theatre Production
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1. A brew of talent and compassion
Updated: Apr 15, 2019, 09:18 IST | Snigdha Hasan | Mumbai
Set in a magical world, Sapan Saran's play revolves around the adventures of a spirited orphan, who in a quest to make the best tea in the world, learns important life lessons
Is intelligence good enough on its own, or is it one piece of the jigsaw that makes a person complete? The play Jhoom Jhoom Jhumpa, written and directed by Sapan Saran, explores this question through the adventures of its protagonist Jhumpa. The production, which premiered at Prithvi's Wintertime children's festival in December 2018, will be staged this week during its summer programme for kids. However, while it promises to bring positive human values and the magic of theatre to children, Saran says it is a play both, for the child in you and the mature voice in your child.
The germ of the idea for the production was born in 2016 as part of an initiative by Tamaasha Theatre, which Saran founded with Sunil Shanbag. "We did a programme called Art with Care in collaboration with St Jude India Childcare Centres, which provide shelter to children being treated for cancer. It ran for two years, where we put up several interactive performances that introduced the kids to puppetry, clowning and music apart from theatre. Jhoom Jhoom Jhumpa was one of the original 20-minute works we created for the programme, which was later developed into a one-and-a-hour show."
Courtesy: Mid-day.com
Set in a magical world, Sapan Saran's play revolves around the adventures of a spirited orphan, who in a quest to make the best tea in the world, learns important life lessons
Is intelligence good enough on its own, or is it one piece of the jigsaw that makes a person complete? The play Jhoom Jhoom Jhumpa, written and directed by Sapan Saran, explores this question through the adventures of its protagonist Jhumpa. The production, which premiered at Prithvi's Wintertime children's festival in December 2018, will be staged this week during its summer programme for kids. However, while it promises to bring positive human values and the magic of theatre to children, Saran says it is a play both, for the child in you and the mature voice in your child.
The germ of the idea for the production was born in 2016 as part of an initiative by Tamaasha Theatre, which Saran founded with Sunil Shanbag. "We did a programme called Art with Care in collaboration with St Jude India Childcare Centres, which provide shelter to children being treated for cancer. It ran for two years, where we put up several interactive performances that introduced the kids to puppetry, clowning and music apart from theatre. Jhoom Jhoom Jhumpa was one of the original 20-minute works we created for the programme, which was later developed into a one-and-a-hour show."
Courtesy: Mid-day.com
2. Poetry in Motion
With intense study and research involved in reading and selecting the poetry, the idea was to push the boundaries of form and music, with both young and experienced actors bringing their own vision to the idea.
TAMAASHA Theatre attempts to be a playground of a multitude of movements, the larger vision being to widen the definition of theatre and not just spotlight a performance. So apart from an inter-disciplinary approach to the art form, where music, poetry, dance, study, and research come together on stage, with their distinct identities to create a new approach, the group is exploring small intimate and found spaces for performances, making theatre accessible to audiences. Founded in 2015 by well-known theatre director Sunil Shanbag and poet, actor and director Sapan Saran, Tamaasha travelled to Chandigarh with Blank Page, an interpretation of contemporary Indian poetry through theatre, music and movement.
A group of multi-talented performers interpret poetry written in English, Hindi, Marathi and Kashmiri by some of India’s finest contemporary poets, bringing to the centre themes of dissent, conflicting relationships, identity and the art of writing poetry itself. Conceptualised by Saran, who also performed in Blank Page, the performance piece is not a traditional play, she says. With intense study and research involved in reading and selecting the poetry, the idea was to push the boundaries of form and music, with both young and experienced actors bringing their own vision to the idea. “We had excellent poetry to choose from and certain themes resonated with us. How to weave these into a seamless narrative that had a structure was a challenge. That’s where drama, music, movement kicked in. Blank Page reached out to varied audiences with its powerful words and expression,” says Saran, who has written Club Desire and Classics Redux, and has directed several productions. She is currently working on a children’s play.
A group of multi-talented performers interpret poetry written in English, Hindi, Marathi and Kashmiri by some of India’s finest contemporary poets, bringing to the centre themes of dissent, conflicting relationships, identity and the art of writing poetry itself. Conceptualised by Saran, who also performed in Blank Page, the performance piece is not a traditional play, she says. With intense study and research involved in reading and selecting the poetry, the idea was to push the boundaries of form and music, with both young and experienced actors bringing their own vision to the idea. “We had excellent poetry to choose from and certain themes resonated with us. How to weave these into a seamless narrative that had a structure was a challenge. That’s where drama, music, movement kicked in. Blank Page reached out to varied audiences with its powerful words and expression,” says Saran, who has written Club Desire and Classics Redux, and has directed several productions. She is currently working on a children’s play.
The larger promise of forming Tamaasha was to run several programmes and create an interaction between audiences and performers in informal found spaces, with the group using gyms, libraries, galleries, bars, empty lounges to perform, with collaborative efforts across the country. It also runs several programmes, from poetry reading to classical music appreciation and theatre modules at shelter homes for children with cancer.
The group has recently performed readings of German contemporary plays, which Saran says is a platform for young directors and actors to look at texts to create new productions. Urdu Hai Jiska Naam, which the group began in 2017, is an attempt to enter the rich world of Urdu literature, with readings from Urdu texts. Starting with the journey of a modern Urdu short story and then exploring other forms of writing like letters, poetry, and articles, Tamaasha has looked at writers from the progressive movement and also explored the work of contemporary writers who are keeping Urdu writing alive in India and Pakistan. “The idea is to present a different work and push the limits with new ideas and vocabulary,” says Saran. Courtesy: Indian express |