Yuva at GANESHOTSAV 2011- A Slideshow

Yuva at Maharashtra Mandal Bangalore's GANESHOTSAV 2011- The whole story in a neat slideshow by Darshan Pawar. Enjoy!

Ganeshotsav 2011

Ganeshotsav 2011 just concluded at Maharashtra Mandal Bangalore.

Yuva has had it's share of prize hauls as awaited anxiously.

8 awards in the Kamalabai Marathe Karandak Ekankika Spardha

Best performance for the Vividhgunadarshan (variety show).

The much-awaited 'WAH-Shout' image is here..(See link below)

More updates/pictures later... and more talk and discussions on the email group and Facebook group (http://on.fb.me/qLSAUI) Join in!

Yuva - in Times Of India, Bangalore!

Yuva gets a mention in Times of India Bangalore's Sunday 24 Oct 2010 edition ( page 6).

This was alongside our Maharashtra Mandal, and other Marathi groups of Bangalore. A statement from Mayuresh and that's the photo of our play 'Mooshakayan', Rajesh Thipse's photograph. For the full article click here.

Yuva plays go online!

- By Mayuresh Nirhali

This year marks as the 15th year of existence for Yuva Marathi Sangh. In this period, Yuva has given some outstanding programmes to marathi speaking audience in Bengaluru, In all the social, musical, entertainment events that Yuva has put together thus far, Theatre really stands out with total 28 plays as of now and countless other theatrical events. This makes us really proud when we look back at the journey.

Most of Yuva's plays have been part of the two local one-act play competitions held by Maharashtra Mandal, Bengaluru; One being the Kalamabai Marathe Karandak Ekaaknkika Spardha during geNeshotsav and the other being 'Rangdakshini' in January. We really thank Maharashtra Mandal for providing this platform for our theatrical activities. Today, Yuva's plays are among the favorites of these competitions.

We are very excited to announce that we will put up all our recorded performances on Yuva's new video channel. The idea is to have one stop place online to watch all yuva's performances and also to bring our efforts to larger/global audience. We believe this will not only provide us an opportunity to entertain marathi speaking community outside bangalore but also bring more feedback to us.

So, to view Yuva's performances online, visit us at, http://yuvabangalore.blip.tv

Avagunthan - Yuva's play at Rangadakshini 2010

Yuva presented 'Avagunthan' a one-act play for Rangadakshini 2010, organised by Maharashtra Mandal Bangalore. A new enthusiastic team supported by the experienced Yuva did very well. Won the Best Set award and lots of accolades. Here is a simple slide-show of the journey, hope you like it.

Yuva's successful debut at Sudarshan - Pune

Yes!! Yuva proved themselves, again.

Yuva participated in Sudarshan Rangmanch Dhirganka Spardha which was held in Pune on 25th to 27th Dec 2009. Yuva participated in the competition with Dhirgankika 'Abhas'. The play was written by Pramod Khadilkar and directed by Sujay Ghorpadkar from Yuva .In Bangalore Yuva has participated in different events of Maharashtra Mandal and showed their talent but this time Yuva decided to show our ability in another city like Pune and Yuva ownered with different hats like 'Uttejanarth'(consolation prize) in Best actor and Best Play category. Yuva had got an invitation to participate in the competition after Rangadakshini 2009 performance "Samantar".

Sudarshan Rangmanch Dhirganka Spardha is one of the prestigious competition in Pune. It was my pleasure that I got the chance to involve in a such great event. It was great fun too... I mean starting from reading the script to the actual performance on stage. Every one put their effort to make it happen.

Abhas was based on the people who couldn't complete their dreams and how god give the filling of accomplishment of their dreams through drama.Finally give the hope for life.

To make the event successful Yuva flew with feathers like

Direction: Sujay
Onstage: Pramod,Mayuresh,Nilaj,Shashi,Aboli,
Lights: Ravi, Nikhil Manohar.
Music: Onkar,Sarang
Backstage: Mangesh,Gaurav,Sarus,Gary
Coordinator: Anagha
Other Yuva, both from Bangalore and the ones relocated to Pune like Nikhil, Sagar etc. helped on D-day

Some pictures posted below here. More are available, click the ones below to view the full online album.

- By Girish Mahajan (Gary)

Some more snap-shots of Yuva at Jallosh09

Some snap-shots of Yuva at Jallosh. Happy to see Garry's onstage theatrical debut at this event. Shashi, Mayuresh, Darshan and Anand were their usual best on stage. Pramod and me did our bit putting up the show on stage. It's great to work with you all.... It's great to be a Yuva!

Yuva Meet - Oct 01, 2008

Pictures from the Yuva meet on 1st October, to celeberate the success of the two plays 'Runanubandh'(Jan2008 Rangadakshini) and 'Limit'(Sep2008 Ganeshotsav)

01 Oct 2008_Yuva Meet

YUVA's performance at GANESHOTSAV 2008

Here's the usual release!. Yuva's play LIMIT was a HIT in the Ekankika Spardha (One-act play competition) at Ganeshotsav 2008 organised by Maharashtra Mandal Bangalore.

AWARDS LIST:
BEST PLAY
BEST EXPERIMENTAL PLAY
BEST ACTOR
BEST DIRECTOR

More Details in the NATAK DATABASE PAGE which will be updated shortly.

'Natak'aayan and the A'wah'rds

Posted by: Rajiv Chalke

Ganeshotsav2007 has ended... and so has another hectic natak(play)schedule. Hold on! I am not attempting to detail out on the events and happenings; I will leave it to the other keyboard-happy-devanagiri-friendly-folks. I have some thing more exciting.

This may be stale news by now for some/most active Yuva, but for our global blog visitors this is the news, the update they need to know. Yuva's entry for Ganeshotsav 2007 - Kamalabai Marathe Ekankika Spardha (One-act play competition) was "Mooshakayan". This was a runaway-washout success. We ran away with many awards and washed the awards table away. The play was staged on 22nd and prizes announced on 25th September.

The play was written-conceptualized by our own Dhananjay Khare, to most of us he would pass off as another dude around us. He isn’t seen or heard much, BUT his work speaks and rocks, I am glad this was Yuva's choice for this year's entry. The comedy play was a political satire about a king and the scheming people around him. How they con him to believe that a big mouse/rat is out to kill him and in the due course to eliminate this mouse, they loot the royal treasury. All events in the play are parallels drawn from real life political scams and 'mis-happenings' of the political world. All this with added humor.

The Natak database is updated on Yuva Blog and has all the award listings. Don't fail to notice the 3 hatrick awards for the 1st place. (Actor, Music Lights). A sort of understatement... considering that prizes like Director, set , actor and Enkankika have not stopped raining on us in a while. Or am I just trying to find some new statistics all the time? (Uh- maybe… glad to do that!)

A friend even quoted "Congratulations.... On second thought - should habitual things be congratulated??" Hell yea! They should be!! Appreciation is oxygen for us artists. Isn't it guys?

This same friend and another also filled up for me for my usual tasks. He clicked photos of the play, since I ‘lost’ my way on the stage this time...and was ‘helpless’ but to put up an act there tch! tch! . Another friend who directed the play also 'feeled*' up my shoes and made the traditional 'Wah-shout' poster, while I was busy and traveling… and did a wonderful job.
(* FYI 'Feeled' was a typo made in one of the emails by a Yuva friend. Please read as 'filled' . I am just rubbing it in :P)

So here is a link to Rajesh Thipse's photo album and Sujay Ghorpadkar’s washout poster (after you read through this Yuva awards list, clap thrice. and say... Arey wah wah wah wah... WAH... ankhin edka Wah-shout!)

Others helped me a lot to keep my 'Nepathya'(Set) tradition on. Also on the stage I got help to get my lines right. I was more conversant with a different set of lines (drawing lines with my pencil, brush and mouse and covering few hundred kilometers of road and off-road lines on my bike)

Ok… let me put the longest full stop to my blabber and give you the stuff you want to see/read. Others please feel free to write your experiences at the 'Natak'ayan and how you feel about Yuva and its A'wah'rds

Ganeshotsav 2007

Best Director: 1st (Sujay Ghorpadkar)
Best Play: 1st (Mooshakayan - Yuva)
Best Actor: 1st (Mayuresh Nirhali )
Best Actor: 2nd (Raja - Prasad Vader)
Best Supporting Actor: (Mandar Sane) The only prize given. This new trophy was announced this year.
Best Lights: 1st (Amol Kulkarni, Prasad Kapre)
Best Music: 1st ( Priti Gadgil, Kedar Sirdeshpande, Shantanu)
Best Playwright: (Dhananjay Khare) The only prize given to an original written script. Another new trophy announced this year( I guess because it was noticed that someone was actually going to the next level with in-house writers).
Best Set: 2nd (Rajiv Chalke, Sagar Khedkar and Yuva)

NATAK PHOTOS–
picasaweb.google.com/rajeshthipse/Ganeshotsav07

WAHSHOUT POSTER-


VIDEO LAUNCH ( Yea! we did it this time.)