Theatre lovers have much to cheer as the Theatre-in-Motion, a multi-city theatre festival, is headed to the city. Over the next three months, they will stage 15 plays in Hindi and Bengali. <img alt="" src="http://images.mid-day.com/2013/sep/Ajantobas.jpg" style="width: 500px; height: 320px;" /> A scene from the Bengali play Ajantobas Conceived by theatre person Anant Mahapatra, the event aims to make the best of theatre available for viewing to connoisseurs across the country. As part of the event, plays will be simultaneously staged across New Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata, with almost 30 plays being performed across 48 show nights. Mahapatra mentions that the mission was to bring regular professional theatre groups from one city to another with their best and longest-running plays, &ldquo;As part of the event, nine Bengali plays featuring thespians such as Saumitra Chatterjee and Usha Ganguly will be enacted. Plays like Aurangzeb and Nyasa will host their premiere show in the city, at the festival,&rdquo; he adds. The festival offers a platform for theatre professionals to assess theatre production values, trend and content, by watching pan-Indian plays, and helps to boost young playwrights, directors and actors. &ldquo;When it is pan-Indian, regional language theatre, which has a larger contribution to Indian theatre, must get prominence. They give an identity to Indian theatre, which otherwise would have been dominated by a British English theatre,&rdquo; reasons Mahapatra. These plays cover historic plots, family dramas and supernatural tales. While theatre groups from Kolkata and Bhopal will be coming to Mumbai, Mumbai-based theatre groups such as Ekjute and Yatri will head to Delhi and Kolkata. Based on the success of the event, they hope to turn it into an annual feature. PLAYS TO WATCH OUT FOR Bengali Ajantobas Anto Adi Anto Bhutnath Sajano Bagan Jaa Nei Bharatey Kacher Manush Chariganga Hindi Aurangzeb Court Martial Chandalika Suryasth Khol Do and Mozel Chukaenge Nahin Shamshan Mahabharat Hum Mukhtarau00a0 <h2 class="footer_style"> From: October 5 to December 29 At: Veer Savarkar Auditorium, 252, Veer Savarkar Marg, Shivaji Park, Dadar. call 09223251148 Log on to:u00a0www.theatreinmotion.in/contact_us.phpu00a0</h2>

Gear up for the three-month long, multi-city Theatre-in-Motion festival by Utkal Rangmanch Trust which   will showcase plays in Hindi and Bengali 

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