GAGAN DAMAMA BAJYO

About Play

Gagan Damama Bajyo, the play depicts the journey of Bhagat Singh Sandhu, Sukhdev, Rajguru, Chandra Shekhar Azaad and other revolutionists from common men to legends, who were concerned about the worst situation of pre independence era and raised their voices against all the wrongs happening around. The story is not about the legends but their way of response to the facts that made them legends.

About Playwright

Piyush Mishra is an Indian film and theatre actor, music director, lyricist, singer and scriptwriter. Mishra grew up in Gwalior, and graduated from National School of Drama, Delhi in 1986. Thereafter, he started his career in Hindi theatre in Delhi. Over the next decade, he established himself as a theatre director, actor, lyricist and singer. He moved to Mumbai in 2002, receiving acclaim for his acting in Maqbool (2003) and Gangs of Wasseypur (2012). After his graduation from NSD in 1986, he started his career as a theatre actor in Delhi, and in 1990, helped start the theatre group Act One, with founder-director N. K. Sharma and stage actors like Manoj Bajpai, Gajraj Rao and Ashish Vidyarthi. In the following years he wrote and directed several plays as a part of Act One Theatre Group, including the acclaimed play, Gagan Damama Bajyo, based on freedom fighter Bhagat Singh, which was first performed in 1994, and upon publishing, sold its first edition in just seven days.

About Director

Shilpi Marwaha is an Indian theatre practitioner and cinema actor. She is a theatre activist, and has acted in & directed many stage drama productions. She is also known for her social activism through street plays. Shilpi started her career as a theatre actor in her college days & never looked back since then. She has been practising theatre for more than a decade now & proved her metal as an actor, writer and director. Her theatre is socio-political in nature & so is her direction, which aims at creating awareness & change in the society. She has hundreds of plays as an actor & more than two dozens plays to her credit as director. She is known for her minimalistic style and portrayal of human emotions & situations raw & realistically on stage. She is founder of Sukhmanch Theatre Group & has also worked with Oscar winning director Ross Kaufman, National Award winning director T. V. Chandran, Praveen Morchhale, Srijit Mukherji, Anand L Rai, Meghna Gulzar, Abhay Deol, Mallika Sarabhai, Taapsee Pannu & Dhanush.