These
event is planned as part of RDG's
20th
Anniversary Celebration
Click on the images to see other images Our Poster Links Tamil & English
TAJ MAHAL at U-Tube (Click Here)
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Iz-HSTvgdow
Synopsis of Taj Mahal
The play starts with Aurangazeb receiving the news on his father Shah Jahan’s demise. There’s no great remorse or pain in Aurangazeb’s eyes not only because he has been expecting this but also because it was he who imprisoned his father and left him in the cell to die. The thought recollection takes him to his grandfather, Jahangir’s period.
Prince Khurram, later renowned as Shah Jahan, at the age of sixteen, meets the spellbinding Mumtaz in Meena Bazar after a hunt. It was love at first sight. Khurram musters his courage and informs his father, Emperor Jahangir of his love. Political and administrative issues apart from those devised by the then queen, Nur Jehan, compels Khurram to marry the princess of Kandahar. He had to wait for five years before he could gain the throne and marry his first love, Mumtaz.
They spent a divine nineteen years together filled with a passionate love of Shah Jahan and a devotional and dedicated love of Mumtaz. Mumtaz accompanied her King to all the battle ends and the battle journey she ventured with him to fight Khan Jahan Lodi had to be their last journey together. The final words between Mumtaz and Shah Jahan in her death bed, is supposed to have instilled in him the vision of building the Taj. Following her death, Shah Jahan closed himself in his room for a week and more and when he came out of the doors, he is said to have shrunk in his stature and his hair turned white, with his youthful facade transcending into a wise demeanor. The next twenty two years of his life time was devoted to building the Taj Mahal. Taj Mahal stands a symbol of beauty, a marvel of architecture and more significantly a representation of love for almost four hundred years. The play ends with Aurangazeb’s rigid, rock heart being touched by the mist of love and him agreeing to bury his father
next to Mumtaz in the Taj.
The love story which is embodied in this monument was punctuated with barriers and blockades right from Jahangir and NurJahan all the way unto Aurangazeb. Mumtaz died and that was the reason for this structure. Shah Jahan died seeing the structure from a cell afar. But the structure stood, and still stands. He is not there, she is not there. It is their love that rises above everything and stands monumental as the Taj Mahal
The play starts with Aurangazeb receiving the news on his father Shah Jahan’s demise. There’s no great remorse or pain in Aurangazeb’s eyes not only because he has been expecting this but also because it was he who imprisoned his father and left him in the cell to die. The thought recollection takes him to his grandfather, Jahangir’s period.
Prince Khurram, later renowned as Shah Jahan, at the age of sixteen, meets the spellbinding Mumtaz in Meena Bazar after a hunt. It was love at first sight. Khurram musters his courage and informs his father, Emperor Jahangir of his love. Political and administrative issues apart from those devised by the then queen, Nur Jehan, compels Khurram to marry the princess of Kandahar. He had to wait for five years before he could gain the throne and marry his first love, Mumtaz.
They spent a divine nineteen years together filled with a passionate love of Shah Jahan and a devotional and dedicated love of Mumtaz. Mumtaz accompanied her King to all the battle ends and the battle journey she ventured with him to fight Khan Jahan Lodi had to be their last journey together. The final words between Mumtaz and Shah Jahan in her death bed, is supposed to have instilled in him the vision of building the Taj. Following her death, Shah Jahan closed himself in his room for a week and more and when he came out of the doors, he is said to have shrunk in his stature and his hair turned white, with his youthful facade transcending into a wise demeanor. The next twenty two years of his life time was devoted to building the Taj Mahal. Taj Mahal stands a symbol of beauty, a marvel of architecture and more significantly a representation of love for almost four hundred years. The play ends with Aurangazeb’s rigid, rock heart being touched by the mist of love and him agreeing to bury his father
next to Mumtaz in the Taj.
The love story which is embodied in this monument was punctuated with barriers and blockades right from Jahangir and NurJahan all the way unto Aurangazeb. Mumtaz died and that was the reason for this structure. Shah Jahan died seeing the structure from a cell afar. But the structure stood, and still stands. He is not there, she is not there. It is their love that rises above everything and stands monumental as the Taj Mahal
Direction by G Selvananthan (Selva)
Script by Elavalagan Murugan
Music Composition : Mohan Vaithiya...... Dance Choreography : V Balakrishnan..... Costume and Makeup Design : Charles 'n' Team
Performed By
Priya latha Arun, Puravalan , Ganesh, Brindha, Suresh, Mano, Malathy, Azhagappan, Salsa,Rasheed,Shanthini,Nagulan,Eranian, Logan,Komala,Karthik,Willy,Mubharak, Nallu, Shanthi,Rathi
Supported by
RDG Dancers & Bharathaa Arts Dancers