Aasakta, Pune is a group of enthusiastic artistes from Pune and their first love has always been theatre. They don’t perform on stage, for monetary benefits . Their biggest satisfaction is group effort and instant audience response. Recently, the group performed  2 shows of  wonderful Marathi play  ‘Uney Purey Shahar Ek’ at Prithvi Theatres, Juhu. Based on Girish karnad’s Kannada Play ‘Benda Kaalu on Toast’ the  Marathi adaptation of it, was done  by Pradeep Vaiddya , while the play was designed & directed by Mohit Takalkar.

The cast of the film comprised of about 35 versatile artistes, some of them already popular stage, television and film stars. Prominent among them were Radhika  Apte, Anita Date, Vibhavari Deshpande, Jyoti Subhash, Ashwini Giri, Sayali Deodhar, Siddharth Menon, Umesh Jagtap ,Sagar Deshmukh and others.

The play shows the contrast in the lifestyle of Rich, the middle class and the lower class.  Very realistically, the script of this play goes on to show the attitude of each character in this play. And, you soon notice, what’s in the mind of each character, with the progress of this play. It is actually a performance oriented play, with superb performances coming from all the artistes. You can call it, an excellent team work. Credit also goes to all those back stage artistes, who quickly arranged  the sets for every new scene, to make it more impressive.

It is surprising that such plays are not staged at popular Marathi drama theatres in Mumbai and Pune.  If they are staged at these places, they will certainly  receive good response. Hope to see this team back again on stage. Don’t miss it. It’s sensible, yet hilarious!