2001

Cast :	Sabhasad	Akshat Agarwal	(B.E. I Elec)
	Rani	Pamli Deka	(B.E. I Chem)
	Vishwaroop	Indradhanu Mitra (Joy)	(B.E. I CST)
	Indra	Saurabh Saxena	(B.E. I Chem)
	Kartanat	Anurag Krishan	(B.E. II Chem)
	Paravasu	Bodhaditya Bhattacharya	(B.E. III Elec)
	Arvasu	Nitin Pal	(B.E. IV CST)
	Nittilai	Shruti Rathore	(B.Arch II)
	Andhri Mai	Megha Jain	(B.Arch. I)
	Vishakha	Itisha Tyagi	(B.E. IV E&C)
	Yavakri	Sameer Dhar	(B.E. III Mech)
	Ribhya	Nikhil Mishra	(B.E. II Civil)
	Brahma-Rakshasi	Ishwinder Kaur	(B.E. III E&C)
	Bhai	Sreejan Chaudhary	(B.E. II CST)
	Angrakshak	Aurko Bhattacharya	(B.E. III Mech)
	Nittilai's husband	Vipul Singh	(B.E. III Civil)

Purohits:-Indradhanu(Joy) , Saurabh Saxena , Nirjhar Shah , Vipul Singh , Ali Irfan Reza & Shailesh Prithani.

Bhai's Friends:- Sachin Talwar & Vaibhav Jain.

Bheed:- Rashmi, Sachin, Simran, Swapnil, Priyanka, Ananya, Vaibhav, Ali, Shreya, Neha & Shailesh.

Agni aur Barkha is a story set in the era prior to the times of Mahabharat - a time of famine when not a drop of rain had fallen for the past 10 years. It is a story about a common man in that time- a common man with uncommon characteristics- Arvasu. Inspite of being born in a Brahmin family to a very learned man (Raibhya), having a brother (Paravasu) who was the head priest in the queen's prestigious maha agni satra (a yagna organized to please Indra, the rain god) and a cousin (Yavakri) who had attained supreme knowledge through a decade-long meditation. Arvasu didn't have any high ambitions. He was a very simple man who only wanted to live life- sing, dance and be with the woman he loved - Nittilaai, a young tribal girl. His only real ambition was of performing natt-leela, but he had never been able to do so because of his brahmin roots. Just when he had been about to marry Nittilaai, rivalry and revenge changed the circumstances and turned his whole life upside down.

On the final day, Arvasu rendered a brilliant performance but was so carried away by emotion and intensity that he set the mandap on fire. Paravasu was so moved and so deeply remorseful that he walked into the flaming mandap . It was finally Nittilaai who was able to calm Arvasu down. Just then her husband arrived on the scene with her brother and killed her. Arvasu was heartbroken but was divereted from suicide by the appearance of Lord Indra. He asked Arvasu to ask for a vardaan . Arvasu chose not to ask for either rain or bringing Nittilaai back to life. Instead he asked for Brahamrakhshasi salvation who had arrived just then and had intensely implored Arvasu to grant her release from her pathetic existence.

It was the end of evil and hence, the beginning of life anew. It rained untie the knots that they have tied themselves in by following 'the path of love'.

This play was very different in every prospective be it the tough language of the play, the ancient outlook of the characters, background music or the lights. Inspite of the numorous complications arising during the practice of the play, the play was a mega success.Because of its mammoth cast and complex stage settings, the play was initially being considered to be staged in the Open Air Theatre but later the the idea was dropped. The lights for the play was simply mind-blowing.

Dharti ka dil cheer ke, Bedh ke seene megh ke,
Kab barsega neer re, Dharti ka dil.................
Sooni ankhen durbal tan, baat johte hum saare jan,
Ek divas bas aaye aisa, Neer mile jhoome sab tan-man,
Dharti ka dil chir ke, Bedh ke ........................,
Kripa karo O daya nidhaan, Hum sab ka kuch rakho maan,
Karte yagya karte poojan hum, Tum hi ho bus apne hum-dum,
Dharti ka dil chir ke, Bedh ke seene.....................,
Darki hai apni dharti ye, Padti hai krodhit garmi ye,
Dambhi bhanu ko neel ke, Garma hawa ko keel ke,
Ab barsao neer re, Ab barsao neer re, Ab barsao.......

NOTE :- The song reveals the mental state of the people waiting for rain. Each line was first sung by Vivek Sinha from background and then in chorus by members on stage. The song was penned by Nitin Pal.

Cast :	Sharat	Sachin Talwar	(B.Tech. III Chem)
	Sadhan	Aurko Bhattacharya	(B.Tech. III Mech)
	Bani	Rashmi Sonal	(B.Arch. III)
	Mrs. Etherlee	Neha Agarwal	(B.Tech. I E&C)
	Dr. Osada	Pamli Deka	(B.Tech. I Chem)
	Major Fereby	Ali Irfan Reza	(B.Tech. II CST)
	Dr. Hachiya	Shikha Mittal	(B.Tech. I Elec)
	Kanth Swar- 1	Megha Jain	(B.Arch. I)
	Kanth Swar-2	Shreya Sharda	(B.Arch. I)
	Aneman	Sreejan Choudhary	(B.Tech. II CST)
	Masooda	Vaibhav Jain	(B.Arch. II)
	Einstein	Saurabh Saxena	(B.Tech. I Chem)

Are you ready to take the responsibility for the mishaps that have taken place for the human race? This is the interrogation that this play, Teesveen Shatabdi, puts in front of every human being. It was not the small set of people who planned it, neither the victims, nor those who carried out the plans of the tragedy that took place in Hiroshima-Nagasaki and later in Bikini islands, the incidents around which this play revolves. But it was each and every individual whose small mistakes clubbed together metamorphised into a bigger one.

The main character, Sharat Choudhary who is a philosophical writer living in Calcutta represents that face of common man who thinks that each and every person should take the responsibility of every harm inflicted on human beings. Then there is his friend Sadhan, who depicts the other face of common man who has a practical approach and says that we cannot do anything even after taking the responsibility.

Sharat considers himself as the representative of the twentieth century who appeals to the thirtieth century, for not to consider his century people as accused. He also questions the existence of further centuries, whether they would come or not. Sharat has collected many documents and evidences about people and incidents that took place in Hiroshima-Nagasaki and Bikini islands. Sharat’s wife Bani, is a responsible housewife and a very caring person. She handles every situation very maturely and wants her husband to get out of the disturbed state that he is in.

Sadhan, who returns from Paris, finds Sharat in a very disturbed state of mind. Then on being asked by Bani, Sadhan reveals the happenings when he came back after five years. The story goes into flashback. Sharat and Sadhan decides to have a discussion on the documents that Sharat has collected. And as they are discussing things each and every person comes in front of them as a witness to give their own perspective about the incident. First to come is Lt. Col. Thomas Fereby who represents that section of people who actually carried out the inhuman act. Besides depicting true self of a soldier he also representes guilty soul of a person who dropped the bomb on Hiroshima. Then there is Mrs Etherlee, wife of Major Etherlee, who was a part of the same section, that Fereby represented. Major Etherlee had lost his mental balance due to that same guilt which Fereby had and Mrs. Etherlee is a person who is an indirect sufferer of this guilt. She divorced her husband after failing in an attempt to get him out of the hell he was in. Then came Dr. Osada, who has collected many letters of the victims' children. The victim children were represented by two characters, Eiko Mitsu Naga and Yo Sihiro Kimura who narrate the incident and suffering in their own words.

Then there was Dr. Hachiya who had cured the victims of atomic cancer and herself was a sufferer of the same disease. She represented the seen and the felt physical effect of the tragedy. Next to come was Aneman Kavaguchi, a mechanical engineer, who worked in a Japanese firm and was a person who had seen both the atomic bomb blasts. He representes the people who are still suffering of fear; fear of yet another bomb. Then there comes Sanjiro Masuda, a sailor who was a victim of first ever hydrogen bomb blast that took place in Bikini. He is a victim of tragedy, which was many a time more brutal, then the earlier one. At the end came Prof. Albert Einstein who represented the people who were the architects of this demonic nuclear race. His feeling of helplessness and guilt have been clearly shown to erupt at the end.

After all discussion, Sharat goes in depths of disappointments and he felt that we have to stop the people who are doing wrongs to ourselves. The play ended with Sharat putting a question in front of human being about what has he decided about himself. Is he (man himself) the culprit?

Cast :	Ek	Sameer Dhar	(B.Tech. III Mech)
	Do	Indra Dhanu Mitra	(B.Tech. I CST)
	Teen	Priyanka Gupta	(B.Tech. II E&C)
	Char	Abhishek Mundra	(B.Tech. I Civil)
	Paanch	Swapnil Gupta	(B.Tech. II Meta)
	Cheh	Simran Dayal	(B.Tech. II Civil)
	Vridha	Nitin Pal	(B.Tech. IV CST)
	Munna	Anurag Krishan	(B.Tech. II Chem)
	Kotwal	Akshat Agarwal	(B.Tech. I Elec)
	Gurudev	Shailesh Prithani	(B.Tech. I CST)

The play is a vivid portrayal of the routine circumstances encountered by the common man, entangled in the cobweb of dilemmas pertaining to political, communal, religious, mythological, social, economical and personal spheres of life.

His daily fight with his own self, his defeat and his depression but still in this ‘Juloos’. There are some more desperate to receive the enlightenment who find themselves in the reverse flow. So this play presents the search for a better society, which can lead to a peaceful and happy life. The play starts in darkness with commotion between Ek, Do, Teen, Char, Paanch, Cheh depicting the common man showing the various picturesque of life. The play generally revolves round the six characters as they comprise of the ‘juloos’ presenting our own selves on one hand they are presenting the daily problems regarding politics by reading newspaper headlines or presenting India’s 150 years of slavery, its partition its effect on common people Hindus, Muslims breaking apart and getting converted to enemies who are thirsty for each others blood, then the different scams and riots which have become a part of our normal lives.

This play shows how we all are exasperated in every step of our life whether it’s a common travel in bus or the abating social conditions of India, which has put this golden bird in a dungeon. But in this ‘Juloos’ there are also those revolutionary hearts who are desperate for the rays of hope but the reverse circumstances have left a dark impact on there envisage. Among these kind of people one is ‘Munna’ who is energetic but impatient who have tried a lot to bring a revolution but have always faced death everywhere. His constant efforts to bring a positive change and to build up humanity have always lost its worth in this materialistic world and on the other hand there is ‘Vridha’ who have also crossed the same milestones have faced the same difficulties, but in these conditions, he has not lost his hope to survive and define the path of the ultimate goal.

In all these dark conditions there are also those communities who for there own benefits are trying to misguide the innocent ones. Among these the most influential is ‘Gurudev’, whose main purpose is to deviate the common man from his life to unimportant social, religious and philosophical matters and for doing all this he has ‘Kotwal’ as his helping hand who usurp the conditions and try to suppress the people. Finally Munna meets Vridha, who decide to work together, for searching the ‘Juloos’, which will comprise of Humans.

In an overall view the name Juloos is apt for the play as the name suggests a group of humans fighting for a better life. At the end it seems that the experienced and intellectual Vridha’s conjunction with Munna’s enthusiastic and vibrant views can bring such a Juloos that can bring the proper essence of human from all of us.

1. Prem mudit man se kaho; ram , ram ,ram
Prem mudit man se kaho; ram , ram ,ram...

2. Laut ke aao, Laut ke aao,
      Laut ke aao apne ghar mein,
      Gali gali tum vyarth bhataktey ,
      Rote rehate hain sab ghar mein,
      Laut ke aao, Laut ke aao.

3. Hum ek hain, Hum ek hain, Hum ek hain,
      Ek hai apni zameen, Ek hai apna jahaan,
      Ek hai apna chaman, Ek hai apna watan,
     Apne sabhi sukh ek hain, Apne sabhi dukh ek hain,
      Awaaz do hum ek hain, Awaaz do hum ek hain, Hum ek hain

4.    Anth sheeghra hi hoga dekho timir ghor andhiyaara,
      Aaj nahin to kal ayega sukhad vihaan humara,
      Chipa gharbh mein dharti ke bhandar vipul nidhiyon ka,
      Aaj nahin to kal hoga hi sab sukh saaj humara,
    Anth sheeghra hi hoga dekho timir ghor andhiyaara.

Cast :	Manju Devi	Itisha Tyagi	(B.Tech. IV E&C)
	Nath	Vishal Chaudhry	(B.Tech. IV Civil)
		Nitin Pal	(B.Tech. IV CST)
		B. Rajkumar	(B.Tech. IV Meta)
		Neeraj Gupta	(B.Tech. IV Meta) <Non-dram>
		Nishant Nigam	(B.Tech. IV Chem) <Non-dram>
		Vikram Daga	(B.Tech. IV Chem) <Non-dram>