Kirjahaku

Life passes by and there comes a moment when you wonder whether you re in love with the person or in love with the feeling of love itself. How does one talk about separation? Do we even have the right words to describe something that can be both utterly mundane and completely transcendent, pulling us out of our everyday lives and making us feel a part of something greater than ourselves? 'Raindrops On my window' provides an intimate window into the great events and quotidian trifles of being within a couple, giving you an indelibleand deeply moving portrait of love in contemporary times. A simple play about love and its loss; a couple s contemplation - was it merely the loss of love or much more?From the Critics' Column"Two loving souls living under the same roof suffer the loss of not only the novelty but the meaning of life as they go through the years of routine, languishing in ever-increasing misery and loneliness, looking for alternatives. It cannot be said that this midlife crisis is only an urban upper-middle-class reality but also a visceral phenomenon across societies of different kinds and its tragedy only becomes darker. Omkar Bhatkar's literature explores the purposelessness of life, the boredom that overwhelms relationships, and the basic human loneliness through flowing repetitive soliloquies. In a boring routine, seemingly pointless moments can also act as a ticking time bomb. Indecisive milestones become an endless pattern. Through myriad micro-spaces, 'Raindrops on my window' raises many fundamental questions about love and togetherness."- Bharti Birje DiggikarPoet, Translator

On a Numb November Sunday, Hyacintha receives a call from her mother whom she hasn t seen for the last seven years wanting to spend this Christmas season with her. Not the kind of Christmas Holidays she planned for herself. Now, all that she feels is a profound sense of nausea and a feeling of helplessness at the thought of spending the Christmas season with her mom. She tries to reason that she should be happy, but she isn t................. probably something was lost in these last several years, but how does one fix it?Life often leaves many chapters incomplete, only one day to arrive at them after a long passage of time has passed. When these chapters are revisited, how much is that we remember, and how much is it that we have forgotten? The scars of the past are visible but what about the joys of the past, Don t they leave any scars?Flowers in December is a play penned by protean Playwright Dr. Omkar Bhatkar about the frozen hearts of winter and the burning desire in each one of them to feel the warmth.

What is it to meet someone you once loved, after fourteen years talk about the days gone by, and revisit the time spent in university pursuing philosophy?What it is to meet that one person with whom you could talk about your love for Terrence Malick and Abbas Kiarostami?What it is to talk about cinema, life, art, and the pathos of things?Cinema Mon Amour is the story of a ruined relationship, a reflection of our heartaches and our irreparable losses.Cinema Mon Amour is a conversation on life via cinema and cinema via life.

La vida no se mide por los momentos que respiras, sino por losmomentos que te dejan sin aliento.Fly on..... es uno de esos momentos. Cuando dos extra os desprevenidosse encuentran y convergen en un viaje en autob s de Goa a Mumbai, su encuentro abre los esqueletos ocultos en sus armarios, lo que siguees una conversaci n que les hace revelar sus almas el uno al otro entoda su desnudez. Y, por si fuera poco, una reuni n que los lanzaal oc ano del amor, sin expectativas, sin condiciones, sin ataduras. Qu ocurre cuando has cerrado las puertas del amor y alguien llamaa la puerta, pero no busca amor? Qu ocurre cuando crees que te vas a pasar el viaje en autob sterminando un libro que no has le do, pero no eres capaz de leerni una l nea? Y qu ocurre cuando revelas tu parte m s fr gil a undesconocido?

शिक्षिका आणि विद्यार्थी म्हणून घट्ट नाते असलेले विद्या आणि कैवल्य 2003 च्या वसंतानंतर एकमेकांना भेटलेच नाहीत. विद्या आणि कैवल्य शिक्षिका आणि विद्यार्थी होते. पण ह्या नात्याच्या पलीकडे, त्यांच्यात मनात खोलवर रुजलेलं एक मैत्रीचं नातं होतं. 2003 चे शैक्षणिक वर्ष संपले तेव्हा ते दोघे भेटले होते... मग 12 वर्षे सरली आणि अचानक वादळी पावसात, एका पुस्तकाच्या दुकानात त्या दोघांची भेट झाली. 12 वर्षांच्या कालावधीत त्यांच्यात साधे बोलणेही झाले नव्हते, पण ते भेटले तेही पुस्तकांच्या दुकानात पण त्यानंतर काय घडलं ?.... पुस्तकाच्या पानापासून सुरू झालेला त्या दोघांचा प्रवास जीवनात कुठपर्यंत आला? शालेय जीवनात असताना त्यांनी आपआपल्या जीवनात जी स्वप्ने रंगवली होती, ती पूर्ण झाली का?..... गेल्या 12 वर्षात दोघांच्या जीवनात काय उलथापालथ झाली, त्याचा त्यांच्या जगण्यावर काय परिणाम झाला, ह्याचा संपूर्ण आलेख म्हणजे 'नोव्हेंबरचा पाऊस'. हा प्रवास म्हणजे चक्रव्यूहातून बाहेर पडणाऱ्या जीवनाचे दृश्यस्वरुप आहे. हा प्ले (Blue Storm) इंग्लिश मध्ये ' Asia Playwrights Festival 2021' Incheon, South Korea, मध्ये निवडला होता.