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In Bihar’s Chhapra, street plays are making voters laugh – and think

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In Bihar’s Chhapra, street plays are making voters laugh – and think

In a political race overwhelmed by tunes and recordings via online media, a little gathering in the place where there is amazing artist Bhikhari Thakur is adhering to nukkad naataks.It’s a sluggish non-weekend day morning at a commercial center in Bihar’s Chhapra town. Businesspeople don’t anticipate a great deal of clients during this time. The neighborhood diner has barely any benefactors, and the staff members are clustered at a corner table. Unexpectedly, a man shows up playing a ‘damru’, a jamoora close by. A few businesspeople turn upward, yet are not intrigued enough to venture out yet.
The jamoora rests, the madaari asks him what he can see. “Rhea Chakraborty,” the jamoora answers. “All over the place, across news channels, this is the most significant name in the nation at the present time. No other issue matters as much as that one name, Rhea Chakraborty.”People chuckle, a couple of accumulate around the two entertainers. The madaari and jamoora go on from that point, raising the issues confronting the nation and Bihar, making rude agrees at Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The group swells.Such nukkad naataks, or road plays, are new to political race crusading in Bihar. RJD pioneer Jeetendra Kumar Rai, sitting MLA and competitor from Marhaura, saw them being performed by the AAP in Delhi and was inspired.Campaigning here observes a great deal of Bhojpuri tunes, and this time, obviously, web-based media stages are overwhelmed with political decision related recordings,” says Rai. “Yet, Chhapra is the place where there is the incomparable Bhojpuri dramatist Bhikhari Thakur, and I needed to accomplish something that would feature his heritage. Likewise, tunes and recordings are a uninvolved method of interfacing with your chiefs. The nukkad naatak is a more two-way measure. The entertainers get a feeling of what jokes and issues are clicking with individuals.”

At a certain point during the naatak, ‘Nitish’ and ‘Modi’ seem integrated with their backs to one another, a burrow at the ‘twofold motor sarkaar’ the BJP and JD(U) run in Bihar. “You allowed us 15 years. We have utilized this chance to accomplish something immense,” says ‘Modi’. “We have figured out how to sort out that all the issues confronting the state are a direct result of the past government. Presently give us another 15, so we can bring vikaas to Bihar.”In a point at the CM refering to troubles in setting up businesses in the landlocked state, ‘Nitish’ says, “Requests for beginning industrial facilities have been given to China. The day China conveys on its guarantees, Bihar will have enterprises.”
‘Modi’ at that point winks at the crowd. “Try not to let him know, yet his days are finished,” he says, highlighting ‘Nitish’. “It will be us as far as possible at this point.”
The play has been composed and coordinated by Jainendra Dost, a producer who runs the Bhikhari Thakur Repertory Training and Research Center in Chhapra. “Jitendra ji came to me with the thought,” Dost says. “I considered what sort of an effect a live play would have in a political decision overwhelmed by web-based media crusading. Nonetheless, artistes and entertainers had been long out of occupation because of Covid-19, and this appeared to be a decent chance. Likewise, a live exhibition can pass on subtleties hard to catch in a recorded show.”

The production has just had in excess of 100 showings. The vast majority of the entertainers are Dost’s understudies, and they state the reaction from watchers has been eager. “One purpose behind this,” says Dharmraaj, one of the entertainers, “is that individuals are truly disturbed, what with the floods and Covid-19, and the play offers them an opportunity to chuckle at their disappointments. The giggling is additionally a proportion of their estrangement with the decision administration. The powerful are genuinely in a tough situation when they can be diminished to a joke.”
Kumar Gaurav, a 34-year-old Chhapra occupant, ran over the naatak by chance yet kept viewing “since it inspired an emotional response”. “The entire day, we are exposed to exaggeration and publicity by ideological groups. This unsparing investigate of the individuals who view themselves as powerful was invigorating. Obviously, the group at the production doesn’t mean everybody will go from here and vote in favor of the RJD. They, as well, have a great deal to respond in due order regarding. In any case, it is only acceptable to watch something that makes you both chuckle and think,” Gaurav says.

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HT Rewind 2024: Teja Sajja says HanuMan kicking off the year in style is the moment he’d been ‘waiting for’ | Exclusive

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HT Rewind 2024: Teja Sajja says HanuMan kicking off the year in style is the moment he’d been ‘waiting for’ | Exclusive

In conversation with Hindustan Times, Teja Sajja decodes the success of HanuMan and other Telugu films, talks about his upcoming projects, and more.
When Prasanth Varma’s superhero film HanuMan, starring Teja Sajja, was announced to be released alongside big films like Mahesh Babu’s Guntur Kaaram, Venkatesh’s Saindhav and Nagarjuna’s Naa Saami Ranga in January this year, no one expected the underdog to emerge on top. And yet, the film, made on a budget of under ₹50 crore, managed to collect over ₹300 crore at the box office worldwide in 25 days, becoming one of the highest-grossing Indian films for the year. (Also Read: Ranveer Singh met HanuMan actor Teja Sajja, complimented him even after his Prasanth Varma film Rakshas got shelved)

Ask Teja about the moment he realised his film had not just fought against the tide but also risen to the top; he tells Hindustan Times in an exclusive conversation, “Since I returned to acting (as a lead actor after being a child artiste since 1998), this is the moment I’ve been waiting for. When everything from the HanuMan teaser to the songs was grabbing attention, we knew we had hit a gold mine. But I don’t think we imagined it would cross the ₹300 crore threshold. We were so satisfied with the opening numbers; everything else was a bonus.”

‘Success has given me fear of disappointing people’

Teja acted in Zombie Reddy, Ishq and Adbhutham before HanuMan, but they are what you would call ‘critical successes’, adding to his repertoire as an actor who can perform. But things have changed for him now, says Teja, who is being picky about the roles he says yes to. “Success either makes you overconfident or gives you the fear of disappointing people; I have the latter,” he explains.

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Teja admits he wants to chart out his career in Hrithik Roshan’s footsteps, but not in the way you think. “I have such a fondness for Hrithik due to Koi Mil Gaya and Krrish. No matter how well he performed after that, these left a lasting impression on me; I’m sure 90s kids will agree,” he says, adding, “Similarly, I’ve realised that I have an audience in children now. I want to be conscious of that when I pick roles. I want to make films families can enjoy together.”

But despite people in places like Mumbai or Delhi recognising him, Teja says he’s clear that he wants to cater to the Telugu audience first. “I am conscious that I am making films for my playground – the Telugu states. This is the sensibility I have grown up with, and I don’t know if I can cater to everyone else. Will I promote my films in other languages? Sure. But I also can’t be part of films that aren’t authentic to what I know or understand,” he explains.

‘Rootedness has put us on the world map’

And authenticity seems to be the need of the hour. Be it Baahubali and RRR or the recently released Pushpa 2: The Rule, Kalki 2898 AD and Devara: Part 1, certain kind of stories seem to be finding success. “Rootedness and going local is proving to be such a boon for us, be it in Devara or Pushpa or HanuMan. Kalki 2898 AD was our version of a Hollywood film (the sci-fi concept) with actors from across languages in predominant roles; it put us on the world map,” reflects Teja.

However, the actor admits Tollywood went through a phase of Bollywood-inspired rom-coms and family dramas that worked in their favour for a while. “That wasn’t easy to replicate either, but it’s just that these local stories are what the audience seems most interested in now. It can’t just be chalked up to religion, too. It’s about the morals these films are hinged on, the fighting for righteousness, and how an underdog can find their strength. Introducing Mahabharata or Ramayana to a new audience in a cool way is just a perk,” he says.

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And it’s this rootedness that Teja says his next films, Mirai and Jai Hanuman (the sequel to HanuMan), will also have ample of. “Mirai is also a superhero film that caters to kids, but it’s not an origin story like HanuMan. It has a pan-Asian and Buddhist touch because the story is based on King Ashoka’s ideologies. I hope that I will get to deliver something new to the audience again. I will only feel like I’ve arrived if Mirai is equally, if not more, successful,” says Teja.

Rishab Shetty will headline Jai Hanuman, but Teja also looks forward to shooting that. “I can’t wait to be on that set; it’ll be exciting. Now that we know India is ready to watch our films, I want to step it up. I want to shift gears and shoot for at least two films in 2025,” he says. As for what he will do next, Teja says he wants to up the ante. “When I got a SIIMA award for Zombie Reddy as a debutant, I remember telling Prasanth this would be the last award I get. But now that I won a Radio City Cine Award for Best Actor, I hope more awards will follow,” he signs off cheekily.

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