From behind the bars

A play is based on famous story Hawalaat penned by popular playwright Sarveshwar Dayal Saxena is all set to enthrall the Capital. Directed by Devesh Nigam, the story unfolds with the meeting of three youngsters and policeman on a chilly winter night and proceeds as an interrogation which reveals how everyone has made a mockery of system and principles which were fabricated for our own good. Hawalaat is being brought to the Delhi stage by Cineaste'.

Cineaste' is a registered youth based independent theatre group formed in June 2011. The group is a bunch of passionate working professionals and students who are ready to devise their own path for fulfillment of dreams. So far the group has come up with nine stage productions along with three critically acclaimed short films. 

Director of the play, Devesh Nigam completed his engineering from Delhi Technological University in 2008 after which he decided to switch gears and follow his heart. And today, he has his own unique theatre group Cineaste', for which he writes and directs plays and  short films. So far he has written four plays and directed nine productions and has received critical acclaims for his work which includes Kafan (Munshi Premchand), Death of a Govt Clerk (Anton Chekov), Happy B'day (based on Gandhi's talisman), Snow White and Seven Dwarves, Addiction (Devesh Nigam)  among others.

Sarveshwar Dayal Saxena, the playwright was a noted Hindi writer, poet, columnist and playwright. He was one of the seven poets who first published in one of the Tar Saptaks, which ushered in the Prayogvaad (Experimentalism) era, which in time evolved to became the Nayi Kavita (New Poetry) movement. 

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