A social play in Telugu, Manasulu Kalisthe , scripted by Gattupalli Balakrishna Murty and directed by Sreepada Kumara Varma was staged at Kalabharathi on Friday last. A presentation by the Vijayaditya Arts of Nizamabad, it got staged under the joint auspices of Visakha Music and Dance Academy and the A.P. State Film, T.V. and Theatre Development Corporation Limited, Hyderabad.
It was a play that depicted as to how families could unite by way of evolving, developing and sustaining all sorts of relationships with love and affection but not getting affluent.
Mother Visalakshmi selectively gets married her daughter, Swarajyam to a person who had no mother and sister but creates a situation which makes her live separately. Though she wanted to get her son married to a girl from an affluent family, he gets married into a poor family and consecutively gets forced to live separately. It is only towards the end of the play, all of them realise their follies and get united to live together.
Exhibition of good talent individually and evolvement of even better team work by all actors marked the show. The actors were Ramana Goparaju as the head of the family Murty, C.S. Jyothi as his wife (mother and mother-in-law), D. Jayalakshmi as their daughter Swarajyam, Goparaju Vijay as son Bharat, O. Madhavi as daughter-in-law Prasanthi, Chitta Sankar as the father of Prasanthi, Viswanatham. K. Govardhan Reddy as Ramamurty and K.V. Subbarayudu as family friend Lokanadham. Stage decoration and make-up by Thomas, lighting by K. Joseph and music by Sambasiva Rao were assets.
