A Widow of No Importance
Palo Alto, Dec 2018
Produced and Presented by: EnActe Arts
Written By: Shane Sakhrani
Director: Aditya Thakur
Production Head: Pratiksha Shah
Stage Manager: Hitesh Maidasani
Music Composer: Madhuvanti Bhide
Set Designer: Sukanya Sarkar
Music and Sound Producer: Shekhar Hemnani
Light Designer: Vikram Ramanarayanan
Costume Designer: Sukanya Sarkar
Props Manager: Suruchi Chandorkar
Set Manager: Anuj Bhargava
Costume Manager: Mamta Maheshwary
Stage Manager: Xander Young
Vocal Director: Deepti Warrier
Rehearsal Pianist: Anirudh Iyer and Peter Jeensalute
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Even in a city as progressive as Mumbai, Hindu widows get short shrift. Deepa, clad in white and conversing only with her Lord Krishna, sees getting her daughter Tara married as her only remaining task in life. She cannot, however, resist secretly indulging in her longtime passion for Mills and Boon romances. When her son’s best friend Vinod reveals his school days crush and his true reasons for becoming complicit in this innocent transgression, a host of society-defying possibilities open up to her. Will she or won’t she? That is Deepa’s deliciously difficult dilemma.
Anjali Kirloskar, Tannishtha Mukherjee, Ashish Chakrabortty, Sukanya Sarkar, Anirban Chakraborty, Dilip Ratnam, Anirban Chakraborty
Dancers: Vaibhavi Kulkarni, Mayuri Sapre
Vocalists: Madhuvanti Bhide, Sanjana Shukla
Flute: Niranjan Page
Tabla: Nitesh Limaye
Keyboard: Siddharth Sohoni
Violin: Anush Moorthy
Music Recording: Aalap Desai
Marketing: Alisha Yuhanna
Operations & Finance: YuMee Jang
Sponsors:
Palo Alto Networks
Jupiter Research Foundation
Nutanix
Bahwan Cybertek
Accenture
Sunera Technologies
Xoriant
Multicoreware
Shasta Foods
Lasya Art
Mantra India
Chaat Bhavan
Institute for South Asia Studies UC Berkeley
Radio DeHottie Media Mahima
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