Who was the writer of an episodic play from which Yoni Ki Baat was inspired?
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Yoni Ki Baat Yoni Ki Baat, roughly translated from Hindi as "Talks of the Vagina," is a live performance of monologues by women of South Asian origin. The project was inspired by a production of Eve Ensler's "The Vagina Monologues" by the Kimaaya Theatre Company in Bangalore, India. "Yoni Ki Baat" was conceptualized in 2003 by South Asian Sisters, a non-profit collective of South Asian women based in the San Francisco Bay Area. At the time of its founding in 2003, the Bay Area was home to a critical mass of South Asian social justice organizations with which the South Asian Sisters collaborated. This included Trikone, the oldest South Asian LGBTQ magazine in the world, Narika and Maitri, supporting survivors of domestic violence in the South Asian community, ASATA (The Alliance of South Asians Taking Action) and many other community groups. The arts organization Yoni Ki Baat was co-founded by Sapna Shahani, Vandana Makker, and Maulie Dass in this climate of social justice organizing. As of 2012, South Asian Sisters have had eight unique scripts assembled from separate calls for submissions.
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The Vagina Monologues The Vagina Monologues is an episodic play written by Eve Ensler which began in 1996 at the Off-Broadway Westside Theatre after a limited run at HERE Arts Center. The play delves into consensual and nonconsensual sexual experiences, body image, genital mutilation, direct and indirect encounters with reproduction, sex work, and several other topics through the eyes of women with various ages, races, sexualities, and other differences. Charles Isherwood of "The New York Times" called the play "probably the most important piece of political theater of the last decade." Ensler originally starred in the production which was produced by David Stone, Nina Essman, Dan Markley, The Araca Group, Willa Shalit and the West Side Theater. When she left the play, it was recast with three celebrity monologists. The play has been staged internationally, and a television version featuring Ensler was produced by cable TV channel HBO. In 1998, Ensler and others, including Willa Shalit, a producer of the Westside Theatre production, launched V-Day, a global non-profit movement that has raised over US$ for groups working to end violence against women and girls anti-violence through benefits of "The Vagina Monologues".
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Radhika Vaz Radhika Vaz (born 1973) is an Indian comedian and writer. Born in Mumbai, Vaz worked as an advertising executive in Chennai and has done her Masters in advertising from Syracuse University, New York. Vaz went for improvisational theatre class, and she said this helped her start off as a performer and a writer; she trained at Groundlings School (Los Angeles) and Improvolution (New York). In 2014, she performed in New York and in the Indian cities of Mumbai, Bangalore, Kochi, Gurgaon and Delhi in September for her act "Older. Angrier. Hairier"; she has done a play <nowiki>"</nowiki>Unladylike: The Pitfalls of Propriety<nowiki>"</nowiki>. She is a columnist for "The Times of India". Vaz cites Patrice O’Neal and Bill Hicks as her inspiration for her show.
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Badal Sarkar Badal Sircar (15 July 1925 – 13 May 2011), also known as Badal Sarkar, was an influential Indian dramatist and theatre director, most known for his anti-establishment plays during the Naxalite movement in the 1970s and taking theatre out of the proscenium and into public arena, when he founded his own theatre company, "Shatabdi" in 1976. He wrote more than fifty plays of which "Ebong Indrajit", "Basi Khabar", and "Saari Raat" are well known literary pieces, a pioneering figure in street theatre as well as in experimental and contemporary Bengali theatre with his egalitarian "Third Theatre", he prolifically wrote scripts for his "Aanganmanch" (courtyard stage) performances, and remains one of the most translated Indian playwrights. Though his early comedies were popular, it was his angst-ridden "Ebong Indrajit " (And Indrajit) that became a landmark play in Indian theatre. Today, his rise as a prominent playwright in 1960s is seen as the coming of age of Modern Indian playwriting in Bengali, just as Vijay Tendulkar did it in Marathi, Mohan Rakesh in Hindi, and Girish Karnad in Kannada.
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Yasser (play) Yasser is a play by Moroccan-born Dutch novelist, playwright and journalist Abdelkader Benali. It was written in 2001, and describes the challenges and adversities faced by a Palestinian actor in playing the role of Shylock in Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice".
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Parv Bancil Parv Bancil (7 February 1967 – 1 April 2017) was a British-Asian playwright and actor.
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Saraswati Park Saraswati Park is a 2010 drama novel written by Anjali Joseph. Set in Mumbai, the book follows the story of Mohan Karekar, a pensive letter-writer living in the fictional housing complex of Saraswati Park. When his gay nephew, Ashish, moves in with him and his wife, Lakshmi, their mundane life goes through several changes.
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Kalyanasaugandhikam Kalyanasaugandhikam (The Fragrant Blossom) is a Kathakali play(Aattakatha) written by Kottayam Thampuran (also known as Kottayathu Thampuran) in Malayalam.Based on the Mahabharatha, the play narrates an episode from their life in exile. Bheema goes in search of the flower named Kalyanasaugandhikam to please his wife Panchali, which leads him to cross paths with his brother Hanuman, the fabled monkey from the Ramayana. The four plays of Kottayam Thampuran, namely, Kirmeeravadham, Bakavadham, Kalyanasaugandhikam and Kalakeyavadham, are considered very important in the Kathakali repertoire and are a combination of conventional structure('chitta') with intermittent possibilities for improvisation('manodharma').
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Ọba kò so Ọba kò so ("The King Did Not Hang") is a play by Duro Ladipo depicting the mystical and ambivalent personality known as Shango of Yoruba mythology.
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Yahudi Yahudi (Hindi: यहूदी , is a Bollywood film directed by Bimal Roy. It starred Dilip Kumar, Meena Kumari, Sohrab Modi, Nazir Hussain, Nigar Sultana and others. It was based play "Yahudi Ki Ladki" by Agha Hashar Kashmiri, a classic in Parsi-Urdu theatre, about persecution of Jews in the Roman Empire.
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Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay (Bengali: শরদিন্দু বন্দোপাধ্যায় ; 30 March 1899 – 22 September 1970) was a Bengali writer. He was also actively involved with Bengali cinema as well as Bollywood. His most famous creation is the fictional detective Byomkesh Bakshi.
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Shmuel Yosef Agnon Shmuel Yosef Agnon (Hebrew: שמואל יוסף עגנון‎ ) (July 17, 1888 – February 17, 1970) was a Nobel Prize laureate writer and was one of the central figures of modern Hebrew fiction. In Hebrew, he is known by the acronym Shai Agnon (ש"י עגנון). In English, his works are published under the name S. Y. Agnon.
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Cho Ramaswamy Srinivasa Iyer, also known as"Cho" Ramaswamy (5 October 1934 – 7 December 2016), was an Indian actor, comedian, character actor, editor, political satirist, playwright and dialogue writer, film director and lawyer in Tamil Nadu.
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Taarak Mehta Taarak Janubhai Mehta was an Indian columnist, humorist, writer and playwright who is best known for the column "Duniya Ne Undha Chasma" in the Gujarati language. He had translated and adapted several comedies into Gujarati, and had been well-known figure in the Gujarati theatre.
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Ankia Naat Ankia Naats () are a class of one act plays performed in Assam, India. The invention of the Ankia Naat is usually attributed to the medieval saint and social reformer Srimanta Sankardeva. These plays were written in an artificial Assamese-Maithili mixed language called Brajavali and are primarily centered on Krishna. A particular presentation of an Ankia Naat is called a "Bhaona". The plays are usually combine live instruments and singers, dance and elaborate costumes in production.
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Janani (1993 film) Janani (Bengali : জননী, Jononee) is a 1993 Bengali film directed and produced by Sanat Dasgupta with a financial assistance from National Film Development Corporation of India. The film narrates an isolated life between a boy and his ostracized mother who is believed to be a witch in the village she lives in. It is based on a Bengali short story named "Baen" (Bengali: বাঁয়েন) written by the renowned Bengali authoress Mahasweta Devi. It was scripted by Partha Banerjee, Ashutosh Sarkar and Sanat Dasgupta himself. The music of the film was scored by Partha Sengupta. It stars Roopa Ganguly in the central role.
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Yahudi Ki Ladki (1933 film) Yahudi Ki Ladki (The Jew's Daughter) is a 1933 Urdu/Hindi costume drama film directed by Premankur Atorthy. Produced by New Theatres Ltd. Calcutta, the cast included K. L. Saigal, Rattan Bai, Pahari Sanyal, Gul Hamid, Nawab and Kumar. The film was adapted from Agha Hashar Kashmiri’s play of the same name "Yahudi Ki Larki" which had been written in Bengali as "Misar Kumari". He also wrote the screenplay and lyrics. The film saw Pankaj Mullick's debut as a Hindi music director. The dialogues were by Wajahat Mirza. The story revolves around the rivalry and revenge between the Jewish merchant Prince Ezra and the Roman priest Brutus.
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Sangeet Sharada Sangeet Sharada is an 1899 Marathi Sangeet Natak (Musical play), written and directed by playwright Govind Ballal Deval. The play is considered as the first play in Marathi to showcase the social problems and broke the norms by dealing with the subject of child marriage when dramatic literature in India mainly focused on historical-mythological narrations.
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Rabindra Nritya Natya Rabindra nritya natya is the group of three dance-dramas composed by Bengal's poet laureate Rabindranath Tagore: Chitrangada, Chandalika and Shyama. The principal characteristic of these works is that the story is told entirely through dance and song. The dances included in them were in the dance form created by Tagore. Tagore also included dance in earlier works such as "Tasher Desh" (The Country of Cards), though these are not regarded as "Rabindra Nritya Natya".
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Haseena Moin Haseena Moin is a Pakistani dramatist, playwright and scriptwriter. She has written several plays for stage, radio and television, some of which have even gained international repute. She is the recipient of the Pride of Performance award for her services to the performing arts in Pakistan. She wrote Pakistan's first original script 'Kiran Kahani' aired in the early-1970s. Before this PTV relied on novel-based scripts for dramas. She is considered to be the best playwright and dramatist Pakistan has ever witnessed.
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Sidney Kilner Levett-Yeats Sidney Kilner Levett-Yeats CIE, (c. 1858–1916), an English novelist known professionally as S. Levett-Yeats, was the descendant of an old English trading family with connections to British India. S. Levett-Yeats became a soldier with the Indian Army and later joined the Indian Civil Service as a low-level bureaucrat. Inspired by the example of other ambitious Anglo-Indian writers like Rudyard Kipling, Levett-Yeats turned out a series of Victorian potboilers, often set in Europe, that earned him a place on the bestseller lists of the day.
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Mujrim Hazir Mujrim Hazir is a TV show based on Bimal Mitra's classic novel "Asami Hazir". It aired on Doordarshan in 1988. The show was directed by Rakesh Chowdhary, and produced by Samvaad Video Private Limited. The story was adapted for television by writer Mir Muneer. The secondary theme "Gun Guna" (adapted from "Palkir Gaan") was played whenever Nutan's character rode a Palki.