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Sita takes center stage at Anoushka Zaveri's unique approach to Ramayana
Updated On: 21 May, 2024 09:22 AM IST | Mumbai | Shriram Iyengar
With her latest production, writer-director Anoushka Zaveri brings together contradictory forms to explore the iconic myth of the Ramayana through the perspective of its heroine, Sita
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Maahi (left) and Anoushka Zaveri during a performance at Prithvi Theatre in 2023
The magic of a story is that it can be told and retold multiple times. Especially a tale as old as the Ramayana. From the hinterlands of Uttar Pradesh to the façades of Angkor Wat’s temples, the epic has had multiple iterations. One of the latest is a performance-play by Anoushka Zaveri. The 25-year-old writer-director is set to bring to the stage her take on the epic’s heroine, Sita, and her adventures in Glitch in the Myth. Opening this week at an Andheri venue, the performance takes on the adventure of Sita, from her childhood to marriage, and the epic that follows.
“I always felt that Sita was unrelatable and unreachable as an ideal. Like so many of our icons, she is unachievable as a personality,” remarks Zaveri. A trained Bharatanatyam artiste, she was set upon the idea of reimagining the epic during a Navarasa sadhana course in Kerala back in 2023. “Even before I knew what the play was about, I knew how it would be,” she says. Having learned the dance form for over 15 years, it was only natural that she turned to it as the structure for her solo-act.
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