MEHFIL-E-SUFIYANA

APARYAAPTHA, one of the young and happening theatres active and music enthusiast groups in Mysuru, we have enacted 20 shows to date and done around 6 Mehfil-e-Sufiyana, organized 2 stage shows successfully within a year of its inception. We have enacted in Bengaluru, Mysuru, Udupi, Madikeri, and 6 continuous shows of our beloved play ‘Ask Mr YNK’ in Mysuru itself.

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The team has experimented with different genres which have been well received by the audience. We are proud to say that we are a highly equipped and most advanced active theatre group in Mysuru.

The "Sufi music"; is that wonder which has the unparallel power to induce happiness, to a wave of tremors or tensions of our everyday agitations. It's that source that is driving us towards enlightenment and the trance of happiness.

Aparyaaptha group of ten singers and instrumentalists are going to perform Sufi songs in 11 languages (Kannada, Hindi, Urdu, Bhraj, Hindavi, Sindhi, Persian, Sanskrit, Farsi, Malva and Arabic) accompanied by various percussion ensemble. Some of the highly acclaimed works of Amir Khusrau, Jalaluddin Rumi, Saint Kabir Das, Shishunala Sharifa, Purandara Dasa are going to be performed with the wrap of qawwali and Theatrical genre.

Having a great run as the pioneer of our satirical format inspired by the Works of Purandara Dasa. The journey is accompanied by discovering and embracing our "Peer" in the 'light' of the "Mehfil”.

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List of performers.

1. Narration and lead harmonium- Uday Nusrat Sabri.

2. Lead singers- Vishnu Vasisht and Nishit A

3. Co singer – a. Sunil Kumar Nayak

b. Lasya

c. Bharath Bhat

d. Gururaj Karnam.

e. Omkar meghalapura.

4. Percussions- 1. Subramanya Rao

2.Krishna Chaitanya

5. Production- Aniketh shastry and Koushik Ghorpade