{"id":329,"date":"2019-10-31T10:26:06","date_gmt":"2019-10-31T10:26:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/appriseconsultant.com\/clients\/lssindia\/?p=329"},"modified":"2019-11-01T07:55:10","modified_gmt":"2019-11-01T07:55:10","slug":"ismat-apa-ke-naam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lssindia.com\/?p=329","title":{"rendered":"Ismat Apa Ke Naam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Date: 16th October 2001, By: Naseerudin Shah,  Ratna Pathak &amp; Heeba Shah<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ismat Chugtai, who in the opinion of many is India&#8217;s answer to George Bernard Shaw, is a mesmerizing storyteller. Her tales are visually beautiful, warm, deep and emotionally intricate.<\/p>\n<p>Three stalwarts of Indian theatre &#8211; Naseeruddin Shah, Ratna Pathak Shah, Heeba Shah undertook a fantastic stage experiment in storytelling \u2026 weaving the stories of Ismat in their magical voices.<\/p>\n<p>To just sit on the stage and tell these stories &#8211; not dramatize, not enact &#8211; just tell the stories to the audience &#8211; to bring to life the oldest form of theatre.<\/p>\n<p>The magic of theatre is to bring alive in the imagination of the audience, the world you are talking about. The challenge lies in standing alone on stage, amidst a basic set and not only holding the attention of the audience but also creating imagery with your words, your actions and your expressions &#8211; thus communicating the power of story through yourself.<\/p>\n<p>The evening under the auspices of Ludhiana Sanskritik Samagam, was dedicating to telling the story, from the point of view of a woman, of the upper middle class people from small towns, in our country of the 40s&#8217; and 50s&#8217;. The basic idea was not only to breathe life into a traditional art form but also strike the right chord in the hearts of an audience, living in the same milieu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Date: 16th October 2001, By: Naseerudin Shah, Ratna Pathak &amp; Heeba Shah Ismat Chugtai, who in the opinion of many is India&#8217;s answer to George Bernard Shaw, is a mesmerizing storyteller. Her tales are visually beautiful, warm, deep and emotionally intricate. Three stalwarts of Indian theatre &#8211; Naseeruddin Shah, Ratna Pathak Shah, Heeba Shah undertook&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lssindia.com\/?p=329\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ismat Apa Ke Naam<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":749,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"default","neve_meta_container":"default","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"off","neve_meta_content_width":70,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"off","neve_meta_disable_footer":"off","neve_meta_disable_title":"off","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-previous-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lssindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lssindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lssindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lssindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lssindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=329"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lssindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":750,"href":"https:\/\/www.lssindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329\/revisions\/750"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lssindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lssindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lssindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lssindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}