Topi Ki Daastan

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’. Through storytelling we have tried to recreate
the turbulence between ‘ Topi’ and ‘Iffan’, the main characters, they are childhood
friends who have grown up in an independent cultural environment before the great
divide that was the result of the creation of the two nations. The entire scenario
is created through dialogues in the truest format. This “Dastaan” is an attempt
to reinvent those feelings of fear and horror between the two main communities which
were affected.
It revolves around TOPI who is an embodiment of chaos in the post independent era.
The “Dastaan” highlights the circumstances of two nations existing within the one
nation. Topi a Hindu by faith questions the formation of Pakistan and is a mirror
image of the mindset of his times, which also becomes a reflection of the present
day scenario.
On Stage
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Back Stage
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Tarique Hameed
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Pradeep Bajpai
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Writer
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Rahi Masoom Raza
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Mani Purohit
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Rochana more
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Music Design:
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Pradeep Bajpai
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Shivam Sharma
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Vivan Samrat
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Music Execution:
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Ashish Singh
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Abu Yusuf
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Direction:
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Tarique Hameed
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