Winners of eNatya Sanhita, our online one-act play competition...
August 27, 2014 4:46:57 PM IST MTG editorial
We launched eNatya Sanhita with a vision to not only encourage writing of one-act plays but to also make the selected new and original scripts available online. We received 82 entries for eNatya Sanhita, our online one-act playwriting competition of which 72 entries qualified. We received entries from Mumbai, Kalyan, Pune, Nagpur, Vadodara, Ahemdabad, Agra, Secundrabad, Delhi and from other parts of India. We also received international entries from Mauritius, Australia, Budapest and London. One of the highlights of eNatya Sanhita was that the competition was open to all nationalities and age was no bar. We received 23 entries in Marathi, 23 in English, 15 in Hindi and 11 in Gujarati.
The winning plays in the four languages are:
Gujarati: SPELL BOUND by Sejal Ponda
Marathi: ACT by Yogesh Soman
Hindi: MANTO-ISMAT: DOST-DUSHMAN by Vibha Rani
English: TWO MEN ON A TREE by Manjima Chaterjee
Special jury awards go to the English play LALITHA by Anushrut Aggrwal and to the Marathi play MANGALSUTRA by Aarti Mhasakar.
The judges for this competition were Ramu Ramanathan, Manoj Shah and Ashok Godbole.
The plays are published as an ebook on swiftboox.com. The ebook is available for free.