This year’s Pu.La. Yuva Mahotsav 2014 will have a different look. Unlike the festival held every year, this year’s event will not have one act play competition. Instead, the organizers have decided to host the inaugural show of ‘Wada Chirebandi‘ on the first day, i.e.at 8 pm on Saturday, 8th November 2015. After the end of this play, selected one act plays which have won awards at different competitions will be staged whole night, till 6 am following day, i.e. Sunday.

The names of these one act plays to be staged overnight, are ‘Black out‘, ‘Laka Kana ka’,’ Jigri’, ‘Punarjanma‘, ‘Flower Pot’ & ‘Sangeet Sharda’. On Sunday evening at 4 pm a group of children from Kolhapur will stage their popular play ‘Mission Mummy Daddy‘. This will be followed by a play by a group from Nagpur ‘ Manasaparis Mendhre Bari‘. On Tuesday 11th November at 6 pm, the hearing impaired children will present their play ‘Bharari’. The festival will conclude on Wednesday 12th November at 8 pm, with staging of P.Deshpande’s famous play ‘Varyavarchi Varaat’, which will be directed by veteran Marathi actor-director Shrikant Moghe.

Well known Marathi artistes will be performing in this play. They are Anand Ingale, Atisha naik, Pradeep Patvardhan, Nayana Apte, Amol Bavdekar, Supriya Pathare, Sameer Chougule, Aparna Aprajeet, Vighnesh Joshi, Shraddha Ketkar, Ramesh Vani, Suhas Chitale, Amit Jambhekar, Pranav Raorane & Shrikant Moghe. Mr. Ashutosh Ghorpade, the director of P.L.Deshpande Kala Academy has appealed to all the youth to make this year’s festival a grand success. Complimentary Passes for this event can be collected at the venue.