The Three Arts Club is being revived and it's first event is a three day Drama Festival on May 11, 12 and 13, 2008 at Shri Ram Centre, Safdar Hashmi Marg, New Delhi [near Mandi House metro station] from 6:30pm onwards as per the schedule given below:
May 11: PAISA BOLTA HAI: Manchkriti, Lucknow
Director: Mr. D.C.Pandey / Mr. Gopal Sinha
May 12: UNDER SECRETARY: Aakansha Theatre Arts, Lucknow
Director: Mr. Puneet Asthana
May 13: BADE ADMI: Three Arts Club, Delhi
Director: Dr. Sadhna Bhatnagar
Entry is free, but by invitation only.
For invitations, write in with your address to: threeartsclub@gmail.com and the invitation card will be posted to you. Each invitation is valid for two and for all three days. Children below 5 years are not allowed. Seats on first come first served basis.
Alternatively, you may call: Aaditya Dar at 9968059805.
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
About Three Arts Club
The Three Arts Club was an amateur theatre group founded in 1943 by Late Shri Om Sharma, Late Shri R.M.Kaul and Late Shri Devi Chand Kayasth . It comprised of primarily government employees.
The Theatre group shuttled between the summer capital: Simla and winter capital: Delhi. Its plays dealt with themes reflecting the mindset of the people of those times. The family, clerk, servant, hawker, who one saw in daily life, formed the characters of the plays produced by the Three Arts Club.
After Independence, the club worked from Delhi and contributed immensely to the Theatre movement. Three Arts Club presented its shows at the Prime Minister's house in 1954. The shows were graced several times by luminaries like Dr. Rajendra Prasad, Shri Jawaharlal Nehru, Dr. Zakir Hussain, Shri Charan Singh, to name a few. Production of Three Arts Club Children's plays by all adult cast was a new and successful experiment and was inaugurated on 11th May 1961 at Sapru House by Late Shri Jawaharlal Nehru.
Working with no theatre auditoriums and in testing times, the Club staged some amazing productions and was the only one to have ticket buying audience, quite an accomplishment in those days.
From the poignancy of "FAISLA" to the realism of "UNDER SECRETARY" and "PAISA BOLTA HAI" or the satire of "DHONG"; from the reformative mood of " HAMARA GAON" and " ROTI AUR BETI" to the classical mood of "AUR BHAGWAN DEKHTA RAHA"; from the farcical mood of "ULJHAN" and "BADE ADMI" to the Children's playful mood in the "THREE PLAYS OF CHILDREN" is a glorious journey that any amateur Club in any part of the world would be well proud of.
The Three Arts Club also had the distinction of bringing on stage female artists for the first time in India. Late Smt. Saroj Bhargava was the first woman artist to perform on the Delhi stage.
It was due to far sightedness of the three founder members that the club functioned successfully for 40 years and contributed greatly to the world of Theatre.
Late Shri M.N.Kapur, Late Shri R.M.Kaul and Shri Ramesh Mehta filled in effectively the need for visionary President, a dynamic & competent General Secretary and a versatile Actor & Director. The excellent camaraderie between the three took the Club to great heights.
It was the untimely death of Shri R.M.Kaul in the year 1983 that compelled Shri Ramesh Mehta to wind up the activities of the club. He felicitated the artists associated with the club and donated the remaining amount to the Prime Minister, Rajiv Gandhi's National Relief Fund. This again was a rare gesture by an amateur theatre group.
Over Three Art's illustrious history spaning 40 years, it performed over 1200 shows of 27 plays, a record for an amatuer group in North India.
Shri Ramesh Mehta has been recently conferred with Sangeet Natak Akademi Award for acting by the Hon'ble President of India, Smt. Pratibha Patil.
Late Shri R.M.Kaul's daughter Smt. Anuradha Dar, a keen enthusiast in promoting Indian art and culture is reviving the club on the occasion of 25th death anniversary of Late Shri R.M.Kaul popularly known as Raja Kaul in the theatre circle.She is assisted in her endeavour by Shri Ramesh Mehta, Dr. Sadhna Bhatnagar and Shri D.C.Pandey, IG Police Lucknow.
In the light of the current scenario of theatre in the city, the revival of The Three Arts Club assumes even greater significance. The Three Arts Club will continue working for promotion of Art and Culture through the media of dance, drama, music and other art forms. It will strive to work for social causes and to uplift the society. It proposes to extend its activities to educational institutes with the aim of promoting histrionic skills among the new generation so that this fine art does not die a slow death due to the ravages of the hectic pace of life
The Theatre group shuttled between the summer capital: Simla and winter capital: Delhi. Its plays dealt with themes reflecting the mindset of the people of those times. The family, clerk, servant, hawker, who one saw in daily life, formed the characters of the plays produced by the Three Arts Club.
After Independence, the club worked from Delhi and contributed immensely to the Theatre movement. Three Arts Club presented its shows at the Prime Minister's house in 1954. The shows were graced several times by luminaries like Dr. Rajendra Prasad, Shri Jawaharlal Nehru, Dr. Zakir Hussain, Shri Charan Singh, to name a few. Production of Three Arts Club Children's plays by all adult cast was a new and successful experiment and was inaugurated on 11th May 1961 at Sapru House by Late Shri Jawaharlal Nehru.
Working with no theatre auditoriums and in testing times, the Club staged some amazing productions and was the only one to have ticket buying audience, quite an accomplishment in those days.
From the poignancy of "FAISLA" to the realism of "UNDER SECRETARY" and "PAISA BOLTA HAI" or the satire of "DHONG"; from the reformative mood of " HAMARA GAON" and " ROTI AUR BETI" to the classical mood of "AUR BHAGWAN DEKHTA RAHA"; from the farcical mood of "ULJHAN" and "BADE ADMI" to the Children's playful mood in the "THREE PLAYS OF CHILDREN" is a glorious journey that any amateur Club in any part of the world would be well proud of.
The Three Arts Club also had the distinction of bringing on stage female artists for the first time in India. Late Smt. Saroj Bhargava was the first woman artist to perform on the Delhi stage.
It was due to far sightedness of the three founder members that the club functioned successfully for 40 years and contributed greatly to the world of Theatre.
Late Shri M.N.Kapur, Late Shri R.M.Kaul and Shri Ramesh Mehta filled in effectively the need for visionary President, a dynamic & competent General Secretary and a versatile Actor & Director. The excellent camaraderie between the three took the Club to great heights.
It was the untimely death of Shri R.M.Kaul in the year 1983 that compelled Shri Ramesh Mehta to wind up the activities of the club. He felicitated the artists associated with the club and donated the remaining amount to the Prime Minister, Rajiv Gandhi's National Relief Fund. This again was a rare gesture by an amateur theatre group.
Over Three Art's illustrious history spaning 40 years, it performed over 1200 shows of 27 plays, a record for an amatuer group in North India.
Shri Ramesh Mehta has been recently conferred with Sangeet Natak Akademi Award for acting by the Hon'ble President of India, Smt. Pratibha Patil.
Late Shri R.M.Kaul's daughter Smt. Anuradha Dar, a keen enthusiast in promoting Indian art and culture is reviving the club on the occasion of 25th death anniversary of Late Shri R.M.Kaul popularly known as Raja Kaul in the theatre circle.She is assisted in her endeavour by Shri Ramesh Mehta, Dr. Sadhna Bhatnagar and Shri D.C.Pandey, IG Police Lucknow.
In the light of the current scenario of theatre in the city, the revival of The Three Arts Club assumes even greater significance. The Three Arts Club will continue working for promotion of Art and Culture through the media of dance, drama, music and other art forms. It will strive to work for social causes and to uplift the society. It proposes to extend its activities to educational institutes with the aim of promoting histrionic skills among the new generation so that this fine art does not die a slow death due to the ravages of the hectic pace of life
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