Hard-hitting plays take the centre stage at Manthan Mahotsav

On completion of 10 years of Manthan, the annual street theatre festival, organized by Verve- The Street Play Society of Shaheed Sukhdev College of Business Studies, a number of plays were performed by the society in different states on March 11. The teams performed their plays on topics like rape, fascism, extremism, drug abuse, women empowerment, stress etc in the states including Meghalaya, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, West Bengal, Himachal Pradesh and Orissa to celebrate together the spirit of street theatre.

The beginning of manthan was marked with ‘Manthan Mahotsav’ which was organised in 17 locations of Delhi where more than 35 teams performed at the same time with the varying questions of similar vigour.

With 'Lies Within' their theme, the students delivered the message that in this time of much needed change, the solution, whether it is good or bad, lies within us and we just need to bring about this change by getting the solution from our own selves.