| AT A GLANCE | THE PLAY | CAST AND CREDITS |
| Abhimanch, 9.30 pm, Wed, 13 Jan Hindi, 110 minutes Director: Rajinder Nath Playwright: Vijay Tendulkar |
The play opens with a long narrative by Mahipat, who gives a hilarious biographical sketch of his life. His only aim is to become an M.A. before bidding good bye to this world. He encounters countless rejections, spends some time classifying the rejection slips, indulges in an analysis spree and ultimately starts his study of Sifarishim (Nepotism), which he believe is the best weapon available today. He becomes a lecturer with Swargia Matajee Gaya Bai Sootram Kala Vigyan Nahavidhyalay without any use of influence simply because he is the only candidate and the institution is located in a remote area. By the end of the play he is back in his old position, that of an educated unemployed young man, but not before his feathers have been plucked by Nalini, her uncle and staff of the college as well as the errant students whom he had subdued and befriended in the beginning. | Mahipal: Amrish Saxena/Sajjad Husain Khan Ishwar Bhai: Punj Prakash Singh/Sanjay Mapare Ve: Sadanand Patil/ Naveen Singh Thakur Laundrywala: Sukumar Tudu/ Vinod Sharma Hanuman Seth: Dwarika Dahiya/Amit Kumar Pathak Sarja Singh: Amit Singh/Pramod Kumar Sinha Chairman: Sameep Sing/Zurres Sharam Principal: Sanjay Singh/Punj Prakash Singh Students: Dwarika Dahiya, Joy Metía, Amit Singh, Amit Pathak, Manish Mishra, Pramod Kumar Babna: Binod Sharma/Sukumar Tudu Professior 1: Anoop Trevedi Professior 2: Sadanand Patil Professior 3: Naveen Singh Thakur Professior 4: Md. Abdul Kadir Shah Nalini Nidhi: Mishra/Sapna Khatana/Rakhi Kumari Putna Mausi: Daksha Sharma/Savita Kundra/Kamani Dubey Purohit: Joy Meetei Production Coordination: Rajesh Sharma Set Design: Rajinder Nath Assistance: Govind Yadav, Sukumar Tudu & Pramod Kumar Execution: Ramavatar Meena, Ramchander, Brijesh Assistance: Joy Meetei Stage & Hand Property: Moti Lal Khare Make-up In-Charge: Sadanand Patil Assistance: Kamini Dubey Costume Coordinator: Daksha Sharma & Dwarika Dahiya Costume In-charge: C.S. Bhatia Assistance: Budhram Light Design: Govind Yadav Music: All Repertory Artists Music Recording: S. Manoharan Brochure Material: Sanjay Mapare & Savita Kundra Sound Operator: Mukesh Photography: S. Thyagrajan Assistance: Deepak Exhibition: Prithivi Singh Negi Publicity: S.P. Sharma, Deepak Wadhwa, Neelam Kapoor, Dharam Veer, Prithvi Singh Negi Poster Design: Aarti Translation: Vasant Dev Assistant to the Director: Mohammad Abdul Kadir Shah |