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January, 2008

Event : Folk Festival

The beginning of new year saw a unique folk festival namely Bahuroopi Janapada was presented at the auditorium of Natana in association with National repertorie Rangayana. Many wonderful folk art forms from Assam, Manipur, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Kerala, Orissa , Karnataka and many other states were staged.

December, 2007

Event : Performance of "Chora Charanadasa"

The most unique political satire Chora Charanadasa was staged at Natana. This play written by Habib Tanveer was directed by Mandya Ramesh specially for the members of Natana. It received great appreciation from the audience and became a great success.

October-November, 2007

Event : "Ranga Navami"

The state level theatre festival was held at Natana. This programme was a grand success with participation from many districts with Children, Epical and Historical dramas and Ranga Geethe.

July-August, 2007

Event : Performance of play "Gandhi-Ambedkar"

The well known play: Gandhi-Ambedkar was staged under the direction of Sri.C.Basavalingiah who is a graduate of National School of Drama, New Delhi and the former Director of Rangayana, Mysore. This drama was originally written by Premanand Gajvi in Marathi and translated into Kannada by D.S.Chowgule. Vidwan Nanda Kumar is the Music director. This play has been staged in many places like Mysore, Bangalore, Sanehalli, Hiriyur, Trivandrum and Mumbai in the National theatre festivals and is a milestone in Indian theatre.

May-June, 2007

Event : Theatre Training camp

During the camp held for youth-both male and female, a musical drama titled Mysore Mallige based on the life and works of the famous author K.S.Narasimha Swamy was staged under the direction of Nagendra Shah. This drama has seen shows in many places in the state.

April 14 to May 6, 2007

Event : "Raja Maja" - Summer camp for children

The Raja-Maja held between was full of gaiety. Many celebrities like Vijay Raghavendra, Nagathihalli Chandrashekar, and Dwarakeeshtook part in the children’s camp. The programmes by children like Kamsale, Pooja Kunitha, Veera Gase, Kolata and many other folk art forms and 6 plays like Ajji Kathe, Haikalu etc enthralled the audience.

June 10-11 and 17-18, 2006

Event : Performnce of Natana's latest production - "AGNI .MATTU .MALE"

Natana is back to stun the audience with its new production - Girish karnad's 'AGNI MATTU MALE' . Directed by Mandya Ramesh, this play is performing 4 shows in the coming 2 weeks - 10 and 11 of June, at 6.30pm at the 'Bhoomigeeta' stage at Rangayana, Mysore ; 17 and 18 of June, at 7.05pm, at Natana's new stage - Rangarao colony, near Andholana circle, Mysore. Various dignitaries of theatre, includung Sri Kappanna are expected to attend the shows. All are welcome.

With a dedicated cast and crew working for more than 3 weeks, the director Mandya Ramesh seems confident of this play going places, taking people by storm!!

Pictures and reviews HERE!

April 16th, 2006.

Event : Inauguration of Raja Maja and Natana Kuteera

The new stage built (in a record period of 3 days!!) in Ramakrishna Nagar was inaugurated along with this year's batch of Raja Maja amidst singing and dancing by folk artists. Master Hiranniah, Shashidhar Adapa and Dinesh Manglur were present to do the honours and share the joy with the entire team. With the huge success of the performance of the play Tunta Robin and a new place of its own, Natana is one step closer to its dreams...

April 17th '06

Raja Maja was also inaugurated for Natana's counterparts in Pandavapura, Mandya dist. The Camp Director - Mandya Ramesh, along with Co-Director - Arun Murthy conduct this camp in order to encourage and help the hidden talents in villages come to the spotlight.

March 17th, 2006.

Event : Launch of the website

The hall at Hotel Krishna Contenental was 'glowing' on the 17th, as it was filled of Stars... from our film industry. From Hindi and Marathi actor/director Sachin (of 'tu tu main main' and 'chalti ka naam antakshari' fame), to Kannada's no.1 star Prema, well known film and TV actor Ramesh Bhat along with the unforgettable humourist Mimicry Dayanand and Bank Janardhan. It looked like the best in the industry had descended in Mysore to launch www.natana.org - the website you are looking at now!!

The website was displayed on the big screen for everyone to see, which was followed by the screening of a 10min Documentary made on adolescense by Mandya Ramesh. The audience and the guests were entertained to a few theatre songs by the singers of Natana.

March 10th, 2006.

Event : Foundation stone laying ceremony - The first step towards realising our Dreams

That memorable day, when Mandya Ramesh and his family,friends and members of Natana were present at the site to conduct Bhoomi pooja, in order to hope and pray for the welfare of the entire project. The most important guests - Film actors Dr.Vishnuvardhan and Sri Ramesh Arvind arrived at the site to be a part of the ceremony at the right time. The stars spent the time with the entire team, after completing the formalities. But not for long as all the three actors had to leave for work...Shooting!!