Wings Cultural Society

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Yaadon Ki Baraat

Padma Bhushan “Josh Malihabadi”, an iconic Urdu poet, has left behind a legacy of over one lac ghazals, sher and rubais. His undisputed mastery of poetic prose in his autobiography "Yaadon Ki Baraat" is highly acknowledged.

Topi Ki Dastaan

Topi Ki Daastan is based on a famous and popular Hindi novel Topi Shukla, written in the early sixties by Dr. Rahi Masoom Raza. It has been adapted by Wings Cultural Society in the ‘Dastaan Narration Form’.

Khamosh Adaalat Jaari Hai

Khamosh! Adalat Jaari Hai (Shantata! Court Chalu Aahe) a Marathi play written by playwright Vijay Tendulkar, directed by Arvind Deshpande and first performed in 1968. The play was based on a 1956 novel, Die Panne (Traps) by Swiss playwright Friedrich Dürrenmatt.

Pratibimb

Amidst the hustle bustle of city life where hard realities hit us in the face and our fantasies often dissolve into amnesia, for one must toil hard to survive, a man wakes up one day to find his reflection amiss. He makes it known to his landlady who intends to seize it as a lucrative opportunity to achieve eminence and affluence.

Sara ka Saara Aasmaan

Sara Shagufta, known as the Sylvia Plath of the subcontinent, is a Pakistani poet whose life was an excerpt of a painting that has shades of women’s lives across times and boundaries. After a hard and poverty stricken childhood, her first marriage was at the mere age of 14 – but she never really found marital pleasure.

The Wave

It was in the decade of sixties that a history teacher in California, took to educate his pupils the lessons of history through an experiment which made its space in the history as the ‘Wave’ movement.

Yamlok Ki Chahal Pahal

Welcome to Yamlok! We all talk about it, but nobody knows what it’s like. The play is a satire on our Indian way of life, our mannerism and beliefs. The play also explores the concept of ‘Heaven and Hell’, to know if it truly exists. The play peeps in a different way, into the concept of life after death.

Bheemaparvam

Extracted from the life of the epic characters of the Mahabharata, Bheemaparvam is the tragedy of Bheema, the second of the Pandava brothers, who gains, through the author's ironic undertones, a new psychological depth. It ceases to become the story of supernatural heroes: it is a story of the life of ordinary human beings,

Gandhi Park

Gandhi Park revolves around three people in a park, their fight over three benches and their conversations with each other. Their conversational debate makes one laugh and forces one to think about what it is that counts as a mark of territorial entitlement – caste, region or religion?

Ek Kutte Ki Kahani

The play "Ek Kuttey Ki Kahani", through the use of dramatic enactments, uses the metaphor of Sa’adat Hasan Manto’s three most famous short stories, "Tetwal Ka Kutta", "Kali Shalwar" and "Thandaa Gosht” to present Manto's own analysis of his most controversial, often split personality traits, which were not palatable to the conservative society...

Ant Nahin

Badal Sircar’s Ant Nahi (1969) forces us to come face to face with those questions which we brush aside while ascending the steps to success. Sumant Sanyal, who is one of us, having reached the zenith of success is battered with these subdued questions.The play teaches us how to interrogate one along these questions.

Chand Roz Aur Meri Jaan

‘For anyone to create poems anytime, someone has to live poems all the time.’ And ‘While Faiz created poems of ineffable beauty, Alys has lived poems all the time.’ This is borne out by their letters, written to each other, which also brings forth two facets of humanism.

Waseem

Georg Büchner’s ‘Woyzeck’ was written in Germany at the turn of the 19th Century. Based on a true story, although the play was a response to fast industrialization and subsequent militarization of that period, it remains relevant even today.

Mahabhoj

The play dissects the class and caste antagonistic forces prevailing across a vast rural landscape of Saroha. This assembly constituency has become a hotbed of state politics. Dalit leader Bisu, who protested against the destruction of property of landless Dalits by landlords, has been brutally murdered.

White Nights/Rajat Ratein

The play “White Nights” is a dramatic adaptation of Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s story “White Nighst: A Sentimental Love Story”. The narrative explores the desperation, fragility and unreality of isolation reproduced within the intensive space of the cityscape where a man, (the dreamer) meets a stranger, a woman from Bangaladesh

Jaisi Karni Waisi Bharni

Based on a short story by the British Novelist Roald Dahl, the play JAISI KARNI WAISI BHARNI digs into the cobweb of yellow journalism. The play begins with usual routine of two unemployed young characters who are lamenting their state of penury and are habitually glued to news channels.

President's Note

Wings Cultural Society, started as an idea about making a positive change. Tarique and I decided to set up an organization to achieve that goal. On 7th of August, 2009, we received a certificate of registration, under the Societies Act, for our group. Since that day, our group's efforts have been focused on exploring the rich diversity of theatre practices that India has to offer.
Our commitment is to never close our minds to different ideas, and thus, we have on many occasions invited theatre practitioners of different cultural backgrounds to work with us. The result of such a practice is a confluence of cultural, aesthetical and social values that are anchored by a strong mutual need for creative expression. This also reflects in one of our fundamental beliefs, i.e. that theatre can be practiced in a sustainable manner while constantly welcoming and working with newcomers.
Through the years we have noticed that if given a chance, people completely uninitiated in theatre can deliver impressive performances as well as develop strong individualities and thinking. This undeniably benefits society as a whole.

About Us

Wings Cultural Society has been conceived with the idea of raising consciousness about social issues through meaningful theatre and cultural activities.

It aims to spread awareness in society through exchange of ideas, and through raising debates relevant to our times.

We debuted as a cultural group with our performance of Jaisi Karni Waisi Bharni at the 21^st Urdu Drama Festival on 17^th February 2010, at Shri Ram Centre, New Delhi.

We endeavour to perform socially relevant theatre and conduct workshops, seminars, debates and audio-visual shows as part of our effort to be involved in the ongoing social and intellectual churning.