It’s story time for theatre lovers in Lucknow

A play titled '

Baaki Itihaas

' was recently staged at Sangeet Natak Akademy. The play was written by famous playwright Badal Sircar and was directed by

Vishal Srivastava

. The tragic play left everyone glued to their seat until the end. The story revolved around two characters -- Sharad and Vasanti -- both in love and married happily. The story takes an unexpected turn when Sharad motivates Vasanti to write a story. He even gives her a subject to write on which is about a fictional character Sitanath who commits suicide after his wife leaves him for another man.

Suyash Bajpai and Nitransha Sinha (BCCL/ Vishnu Jaiswal)
The play concludes with Sharad starting to relate himself with Sitanath and starts thinking of committing suicide. The characters in the play, Sharad, Vasanti, Sitanath and Agantuk were portrayed by Abhishek Singh,

Pooja Anand

,

Ankur Saxena

and Kishan Mishra, respectively.

(L) Anuj and Parth (R) Karan Chahar (BCCL/ Vishnu Jaiswal)

(L) Vikas Gutam and Shahrukh Hasan (R) Vindhyanshu Dubey and Harsh Mishra (BCCL/ Vishnu Jaiswal)

(L) Basant Kumar and Yashi Dixit (R) Abhinav Chhabra and Bhupesh Rai (BCCL/ Vishnu Jaiswal)