This article was published on December 10, 2016 by Television-Radio-Film-Theater (TRFT) News, San Jose State University By San Jose State University Silicon Valley high tech business leader Vikas Dhurka had always wanted to learn screenwriting, so he signed up for Professor Scott Sublett’s online screenwriting class through Open University. Vikas wrote a hilarious (and autobiographical) […]
This article was published on January 6, 2017 by Harish Agastya, with Naatak House theater, has been selected by the Cupertino Fine Arts Commission as Distinguished Artist of the Year. Naatak, which was founded in 1995 in Santa Clara, is the Bay Area’s first Indian American theater company. The company is now on its 56th
This article was published on December 4, 2016 by To Travel Hopefully Focus on Naatak Mela’16: Five short plays in five different Indian languages By Kyle Adler Last night I was privileged to be invited by Naatak, America’s preeminent Indian theater company, to shoot their annual festival of short plays, Mela ’16. I’m a loyal
This article was published on December 4, 2016 on For All Events Mela’16 – Five one-act plays in Indian Languages By Victor Cordell Let’s say that you’re a married man. You find poems which suggest that your wife is having an affair. When confronting her suspected paramour, he indicates at one time that the wife
This article was published on September 21, 2016 on Theatrius Close Encounters of the Indian Kind at Cubberley Theater By Susan Dunn Beautiful voices burst forth suddenly, a brilliant clarion call. Exotic instruments twang out a beat. And brightly costumed Indian dancers charm, tease, and mimic characters who, one by one, take the stage in
This article was published on September 17, 2016 by Bay Area Plays Saraf blends two political worlds in Naatak’s ‘Mr. India’ By David John Chavez The crowded marketplace of Delhi, India is the backdrop for “Mr. India,” the story of a simple tea seller’s unlikely rise to power. (Naatak photo) A simple tea seller. It
This article was published on September 9, 2016 by Naatak’s Political Satire ‘Mr. India’ Opens in Palo Alto By India-West Staff Reporter Visit http://www.naatak.org/portfolio/mr-india-2016/ for more information.
This video was aired on September 18, 2015 on KQED Newsroom Naatak Featured on KQED NEWSROOM The Bay Area is home to one of the largest Indian-American communities in the country – and to one of the largest Indian-American theater companies: Naatak. This year Naatak is celebrating its 20th anniversary and putting on “Vrindavan,” an
This article was published on March 25, 2015 by ‘Vrindavan’: Playful Reimagining of Modern Incident, Ancient Myth By Sonia Waraich, India-West Palo Alto, Calif. — In Naatak’s new play “Vrindavan,” written and directed by Indian American Sujit Saraf, fact mixes with fiction to create a playful reimagining of Bollywood actress Hema Malini’s infamous comments about
This article was published in October 2005 by TEN YEARS OF NAATAK Bringing Indian Theater to the Bay Area by Sujit Saraf Ten years ago, seven people met at the International House of the University of Berkeley, writes Sujit Saraf, who helped found NAATAK, which celebrates 10 years this December with its 22nd production. In
