After an overwhelmingly successful premier, we're back with two more shows of Janpad Bijnor, only this time around it's even more intimate as there's no stage and the performers take their seats amidst the audience!

On a Sunday evening, over a steaming cup of Chai, 5 storytellers take over our living room to transport us to the heart of Bijnor as they perform 3 stories that reminisce about the people, animals, birds, trees, and houses(and more) in their little village. We find beneath their relatively simple lives multitudes of layers, that we celebrate, laugh at, rue, and smile over.

" Hawa " is the story of a newlywed bride, the new talk of the town for all the bizarre reasons. But she is desperate to deflate this endless gossip and has found a way - only time will tell how effective it is.

The whole town is chicken in front of the infamous " Fakko Ka Murga ", whose deadly peck is what everybody's running from. Little did Fakko know that this winged friend, the only companion of her solitary life will drive her to distress. 

In "Totaa Udd, Maina Udd ", when the youngest of three daughters is sent to her sister's in-laws after her wedding day, she sees, hears, and feels things she is too innocent to understand. Her reactions are naive, but her instincts are in the right place.

With this boiling pot of sweet and savory stories, you will be left wanting more, reminding you of home.

***Kindly note, we have very limited seating and tickets are on a first come first serve basis.

Duration: 80 minutes

An Afsana Theatre Presentation

Writer: Asif Hussain

Directed by: Jitender Singh

Cast:

Anjor

Shumaila

Kanchan

Prerana 

Jitender

Lights:

Vikrant Thakar

Production help:

Waris Ahmed Zaidi

About the team:

Afsana Theatre is an experimental theatre group in Mumbai founded in 2019. Here we strive to touch upon unexplored literature and share universal stories from different languages and parts of the world. We believe in bringing together people, ideas, and stories, that each is a revelation of character, philosophy, and wisdom, and we are here to know more.

About the Director:

A theatre professional with hands-on experience in acting and directing to turn ideas into shows that entertain and inspire, Jitender has worked professionally in the theatre field for more than 9 years now. Worked in more than 20 theatre productions with various theatre companies across the country as an Actor, Director, and Assistant Director. Directed 6 full-length theatre productions, some staged at multiple theatre festivals like Prithvi Theatre Festival, Kala Ghoda Arts Festival, Thespo Theatre Festival, etc. His notable works include Downtown Kashmir (Thespo Festival, 2015), Marching Dead (Kala Ghoda Arts Festival, 2018), and Phislan & Kutta Aurat Aadmi (Prithvi Theatre Festival, Fringe, 2019 & 2022, respectively).

He started his own theatre company in Mumbai named AFSANA THEATRE in 2019. He is also actively working as Drama and Acting coach with institutions across the country for the last 6 years.

About Harkat:

Harkat is an international boutique arts studio with a passion for film, new media, community art spaces and contemporary art. Based in Mumbai & Berlin, Harkat takes many forms and identities across disciplines & related creative industries. As an alternative performance & arts space, we have hosted more than 150 shows in the past year in the mediums of theatre, film, music, community projects & contemporary art. We support the new, unheard, upcoming, exciting, cutting edge, the political, the forgotten, nostalgic, melancholic, soul stirring, the beautiful & more. And that's what Harkat is. Harkat.