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00:00 The play is an influential tool for personal development.
00:02 My journey to the theatre began there.
00:05 I don't learn acting, but I learn acting.
00:07 How to learn acting, we'll tell you.
00:09 Everyone is interested in big plays.
00:11 I used to save money for the play and spend money for the play.
00:15 In 1978, I founded Natya Sanskar.
00:18 Nakla Nagri and its production gave me a lot of happiness.
00:24 Subodh Bhave had come to our show.
00:26 Gayatri was not in school at that time.
00:28 I always told her, "Subodh, you should go to school."
00:31 We are going to learn how to speak.
00:33 We are going to learn how to listen.
00:35 How to laugh and how to cry.
00:38 Our laughter should not be heard in the world.
00:40 The joy of doing something is not the joy of doing a play.
00:43 Hello.
00:49 Welcome to the special episode of Gost Asamandnenchi.
00:54 Friends, we see big actors on the screen.
00:58 Their teachers, who teach them, are the guides.
01:02 Today, we are going to meet such teachers,
01:04 whose talented, famous actors like Subodh Bhave and Sonali Kulkarni
01:08 have been taught and are still taught.
01:12 Jeste actor and child actor trainer, Prakash Parkey.
01:16 Let's find out how his journey is.
01:19 Hello.
01:20 I am Prakash Vinayak Parkey.
01:22 We are going to talk about the dance culture.
01:26 How did I start?
01:27 My father, Vinayak Balkrishna Parkey,
01:31 a great harmonium player,
01:33 and the earlier fairs, like Ganeshwar Chauthna,
01:37 the Bhore village fair was famous for its girls.
01:41 But the organization was destroyed.
01:43 He came to Pune for a job.
01:45 His remaining hobby,
01:48 he tried to make me a part of it.
01:52 While I was in the 2nd grade,
01:54 he wrote a play and asked me to do it.
01:57 I came to the 2nd grade.
02:00 The play was so successful,
02:02 that my journey to the fair started there.
02:06 I realized that this was a great help to me.
02:10 I was a bit uneducated, but it was a great help.
02:13 Every year, I would write a play.
02:15 Every year, I would write a new play.
02:17 The teachers had to be ready for the play.
02:20 So, my father wrote the play.
02:22 I was a part of many programs.
02:26 He was a very smart boy.
02:28 He was sent to the school for competitions.
02:30 He was given a scholarship.
02:32 So, the journey to the fair
02:35 was a great help to me.
02:39 I continued to go to school.
02:42 When I was in the 8th grade,
02:43 I saw Sadan Joshi's play, Nakla.
02:48 He would play different characters.
02:50 Pandit Nehru, Hitler, Raj Kapoor.
02:55 He would enter the auditorium
02:56 and play all the characters.
02:59 After changing the characters,
03:01 he would take a break.
03:03 He would play a character
03:05 who would make a sound and act.
03:08 I was very attracted to him.
03:12 I started to wonder if I could make a sound.
03:15 Gradually, I became so popular in school
03:18 that in 1965,
03:20 I did my first play, Nakla Nagri,
03:24 in the school auditorium.
03:25 I did it as a security guard.
03:27 I had a 10 paisa ticket.
03:28 I had to pay 15 rupees for the expenses.
03:32 I had to pay that much for security.
03:34 This was in 1965.
03:37 10 paisa ticket may seem a bit expensive now.
03:40 But, it was very cheap at that time.
03:42 My Nakla Nagri journey started in 1965.
03:46 The tickets that are called 'Balnate'
03:48 were first used by my family in 1972.
03:52 I completed 50 years of work with that.
03:55 51 years.
03:57 I started to play in the play.
04:00 I got an apprenticeship for a job.
04:03 After that, I went to a bakery for a year.
04:09 I went to look for a job.
04:10 Finally, I got a job in the government's
04:12 government scheme in Nagpur.
04:14 I worked there for a year.
04:16 I worked in the play there too.
04:18 I saw the movement there.
04:20 I got transferred to Miraz from there.
04:22 I worked in the play in Miraz.
04:25 I saw the play there too.
04:26 I saw the movement there.
04:28 Finally, in 1977, I got a job again
04:30 in Pune in the Hindustan Antipathics.
04:33 In the meantime, in 1975,
04:37 Sudhakar Markar had taken the first
04:40 'Balnate' camp of the Maharashtra government
04:43 in Mumbai.
04:46 Sudhakar Markar was organizing it.
04:49 Many famous people were teaching us.
04:52 Nana Joglekar was teaching makeup.
04:54 Sulbhadesh Pandey was teaching.
04:56 Purushottam Dharvekar was teaching.
04:58 Ratnakar Madkari was teaching.
05:00 All such famous people.
05:02 I noticed that all these people
05:04 were interested in big plays.
05:06 I wanted to save money for the play
05:09 and spend it on big plays.
05:11 I decided to start a new organization
05:14 called Natya Sanskar.
05:16 In 1978, Natya Sanskar was established.
05:20 In 1978, Natya Sanskar was established.
05:23 We had learned from Sudhakar Markar
05:25 that if you want to do a good play,
05:29 you should be trained as an artist.
05:33 If you work as a dancer,
05:35 you won't be as good as a dancer.
05:36 So, we decided to start a camp
05:38 of five months on the first Saturday.
05:42 We started with the Adarshi Vidyalaya camp.
05:45 I have a very interesting experience.
05:48 A friend of mine told me
05:51 that he wanted to put his son in this camp.
05:53 I asked him if he liked it.
05:54 He said, "No, I don't like it."
05:55 I asked him if his son liked it.
05:56 He said, "No, my son doesn't like it."
05:58 I asked him why he wanted to put him in this camp.
06:00 He said, "This boy is mute."
06:02 I said, "He is not mute.
06:03 "He is just talking.
06:05 "He won't be able to walk."
06:06 He said, "He won't be able to walk in the play."
06:08 I asked him why he wanted to put him in this camp.
06:10 At that time,
06:11 the pay for this camp was very low.
06:15 I asked him why he didn't want to work in the play.
06:17 He said, "It's okay.
06:19 "I have four children.
06:20 "I will give him a place in the fifth class."
06:22 It was a month.
06:23 It was January, February.
06:24 It was the 8th or the 17th.
06:25 My friend told me that
06:27 he had saved up for the fees.
06:29 I asked him if he wanted to perform.
06:30 He said, "How can I save up for the fees?"
06:32 He started talking.
06:34 He had some friends.
06:35 He didn't have just one friend.
06:36 He had two friends.
06:38 I was shocked to see this change.
06:41 I went to my teacher,
06:43 Bhalba Kelkar and told him,
06:45 "Bhalba,
06:47 "a student has come and he won't be able to talk for a month."
06:51 My teacher told me that
06:54 the play is an effective tool for personal development.
06:57 So, when he comes to the training camp,
07:00 he doesn't have to worry about
07:02 what he is being told.
07:04 Everyone should learn this science.
07:06 If everyone learns this science,
07:08 it will definitely develop their personality.
07:10 I am sure that
07:13 it will definitely make a difference.
07:15 So, I started focusing on personal development.
07:20 I started learning dance science
07:22 to develop my personality.
07:25 When I started learning,
07:28 I realized how important it is.
07:30 The basics of dance science are
07:32 how to create a voice.
07:34 In the end, we have to speak in front of people.
07:37 If we want to speak effectively,
07:39 what does personal development mean?
07:40 We are afraid to speak.
07:42 We don't express what is in our mind.
07:44 So, how do we speak?
07:46 If we want to impress people,
07:49 if we want to impress them,
07:52 we have to speak in this tone.
07:56 No one knows how to create this tone.
08:00 That's why I felt that
08:01 how far can we go as a child?
08:03 We have to go as a teacher.
08:05 So, my first step was
08:07 dance science for personal development.
08:10 But I realized that
08:11 dance science is necessary for teachers.
08:13 So, I started this book for teachers.
08:16 I was called to many schools in Maharashtra
08:20 for teaching.
08:22 I took classes for teachers in many schools.
08:25 And dance science for influential teachers.
08:27 This was a new subject.
08:30 It became popular.
08:32 And because of this,
08:34 I was called to the Education Committee of Maharashtra.
08:37 I worked there for 20 years.
08:39 Bhaskar Chandravarkar was the head of the committee.
08:42 In that program,
08:44 I brought a new idea.
08:47 I brought the idea of 'Varga Natya Grahai'.
08:51 You don't need a theatre.
08:54 If you want to learn dance for personal development,
08:59 then you should learn 'Varga Natya Grahai'.
09:02 There is a blackboard behind.
09:04 It can be a backdrop.
09:06 There is no need of curtains.
09:08 You can make curtains for children.
09:09 When children go to play, curtains are made.
09:10 I brought such ideas in the program.
09:13 And it became popular in Maharashtra.
09:16 And my next step is dance science.
09:20 People saw this and said
09:23 we need marks.
09:25 Mathematics, science,
09:27 I say that all students are on marks.
09:30 We need marks.
09:32 They need marks.
09:34 Then there is a subject in school,
09:37 you should bring teachers in the form of a play.
09:40 And bring the children in the class.
09:42 Because of the play, the person will develop.
09:45 And because there is a play of study,
09:47 they will have to study.
09:49 Because what do the students and teachers want?
09:51 The students should understand the subject.
09:54 So, I started teaching such complex subjects in the form of a play.
09:59 And it is a very different process.
10:03 I am thinking of doing it in a bigger scale.
10:06 So, this is my journey.
10:08 Nakla Nagri and that Anushangani
10:12 I got a lot of happiness in my life.
10:16 I travelled a lot.
10:18 As I said earlier, I did the experiment of Sangeet Nakla Nagri.
10:22 But that experiment did not last.
10:24 Because instead of taking care of tabla, peti, gayak, gayika,
10:28 we should do our own one-way.
10:30 It is not an hour and a half, we should do it one-way.
10:33 And people have started to like one-way more
10:36 in terms of budget and travel.
10:39 I also experienced the same.
10:40 Not entirely in Maharashtra.
10:42 Outside Maharashtra, I went to Madhya Pradesh,
10:45 Karnataka, Belgaum, Goa.
10:49 I did experiments in these places.
10:51 And my daughter was in America.
10:54 So, on the occasion of her grandfather's death,
10:57 I went to America.
10:59 There, the people of Maharashtra discussed.
11:01 Once, they called me as a guest and showed me the play.
11:04 Then they realized that they should keep their program.
11:07 So, that was the first program.
11:09 My claim is that a million people have heard about Jadu's Ghar.
11:14 Thousands of people have visited Nakla Nagri.
11:16 But the popularity of Jadu's Ghar is very different.
11:19 And the happiness I got from it is very different.
11:23 How Jadu's Ghar was made,
11:25 it was first written in the Akashmani Center.
11:30 And I wrote it there.
11:31 I went there to do the Nakla.
11:33 They said, we don't want just Nakla,
11:34 we want something else.
11:36 So, I wrote it there.
11:37 I wrote it on the same table, on the Akashmani Center table.
11:40 And after that, it got so much popularity
11:44 that I realized that if people like it so much,
11:46 then I should release its audio cassettes.
11:48 I have sold 1000 audio cassettes.
11:51 Then I sold 500 audio CDs.
11:53 Now, it has a video DVD.
11:55 It is uploaded on YouTube.
11:57 They say, "Learn acting."
11:58 Or they say, "Do you learn acting?"
12:02 I say, "No."
12:03 So, he has a very good answer.
12:05 "I don't know how to learn acting, but I know how to learn acting."
12:08 I say, "How to learn acting?"
12:10 Because that is a science.
12:12 And after slowly understanding the science,
12:15 everyone needs it.
12:17 Now, when I started learning acting,
12:23 I was not taking the kids under 10 years of age.
12:26 I mean, they should understand the science.
12:30 But then the rate kept increasing.
12:33 Now, I have this for 5-8 years.
12:35 I have been learning for 5-8 years,
12:38 how to teach acting to those kids.
12:40 Even if they don't have the knowledge,
12:45 they laugh, sing, act,
12:48 and say, "Let's have fun. Let's learn acting today."
12:51 I say, "How should we speak today?"
12:56 "How should we listen today?"
12:59 "How should we laugh and cry?"
13:01 "We should laugh in this world."
13:04 I teach them acting science through singing.
13:08 I am not just a writer, but also a teacher and an actor.
13:11 In the past, we used to work only for the kids.
13:14 But now, we are taking the kids to the camps for the adults.
13:17 For the adults, I mean, for the adults,
13:19 we have been given permission by the Pune University,
13:23 by the Pune University of Pune, to take the acting certificate class.
13:26 And we take the acting certificate class for 4 months.
13:31 And we take the 12th and 5th grade students.
13:34 There is no age limit for that.
13:37 If you want to learn acting,
13:39 there is a limit and there is very little space.
13:41 Everyone should take the acting certificate class.
13:43 And if you want to develop as a person,
13:47 then some people have to become artists.
13:51 The number of my students,
13:53 the number of my students,
13:56 the first name I take is Sonali Kulkarni.
14:00 She is the actress of the film.
14:02 She has also acted in Marathi and Hindi films.
14:05 She has won many international awards.
14:09 So, Sonali Kulkarni and Yogesh Soman are a batch.
14:14 I always say that I am their primary school teacher.
14:19 These kids have worked very hard,
14:23 they have learned a lot,
14:25 they have struggled,
14:27 and if they had graduated now,
14:31 I would not have felt the same.
14:33 I just started.
14:35 But I feel very good that I have not forgotten all these people.
14:37 Similarly, it happened with Subodh Bhave.
14:41 Subodh Bhave had been working in the organization for many years.
14:45 He used to say that he did not get a big role at that time.
14:49 He used to stand behind and support.
14:52 I remember that there was a big competition for Ekankika.
14:56 Ekankika was chosen by my teachers.
15:00 It was the Ekankika of Bhalpa Kulkarni.
15:02 In that, Sambhaji and Aurangzeb's daughter,
15:08 Jebun Nisha's dream,
15:10 I remember that very well.
15:12 I remember that incident very well.
15:16 The teacher used to say that the students should learn from the students.
15:20 At that time, there was a competition for the sister of Jebun Nisha's daughter.
15:28 After going there, I called everyone there.
15:32 Subodh and his daughter were there.
15:36 And there was a menu of Batata Vada in that competition.
15:40 My weak point is Batata Vada.
15:42 But these two did not touch Batata Vada.
15:46 Because they said that there is a competition for two days and we will not eat.
15:51 I really felt proud.
15:53 Such an incident happened in Gayatri Dattar.
15:56 Sometimes such students come,
15:58 they grow up,
16:00 and after a few years,
16:02 they do not even notice that they are students.
16:04 Similarly, the serial Tula Pahatre started.
16:08 And Subodh was there, so he used to watch the serial regularly.
16:12 And the heroine of that serial was Gayatri Dattar.
16:15 And I remember that she went to our gathering.
16:21 When she told her children that she is a student of Natya Sanskar,
16:26 and a student of Prakash Parkesan,
16:28 I read this in the newspaper.
16:31 And then I found out that if you want to see the photo,
16:34 then there is a photo from 5-6 years ago,
16:37 I found a photo in the photo,
16:39 in which Subodh Bhave had come to our program once.
16:43 And Gayatri Dattar was a student at that time.
16:45 And I had told her directly that take Subodh's photo.
16:48 I found the photo of him taking the photo,
16:52 and then I sent that photo to Gayatri and Subodh.
16:57 So both of them were surprised and said,
16:59 "Sir, you have kept this photo close to you."
17:01 If I have to tell you a recent example,
17:04 then Priyadarshani, who is now everyone's favorite,
17:07 Priyadarshani Indalkar,
17:09 she was in the camp,
17:12 but the play called Dabudol Rimudgol,
17:16 which was used in 2001,
17:18 and its 9th and 9th experience was held in Indore last month.
17:23 After creating so many artists,
17:25 everyone has this question that
17:27 have you ever felt like doing it in a film,
17:30 or in a play?
17:32 Firstly, I did not feel like doing it in a film.
17:35 I have worked in some films,
17:37 I have worked with an experienced person in a film.
17:41 I worked on a film called Jawahar.
17:44 I have done small roles in Maladi,
17:46 and now I have done small roles in some students' films.
17:49 But I really find the process of making a film very boring.
17:52 You have to spend three minutes or seven days in it.
17:55 Now the process of acting is not easy,
17:58 and you have to do the drama for a day,
18:00 but after doing the drama,
18:02 the joy of doing it,
18:04 you don't get while doing a film.
18:06 The difference between the two is that
18:08 the life that I have lived,
18:10 and the money that I have earned,
18:12 I have to spend it for the film.
18:14 When I came to Chitrapat,
18:16 the situation of the play was such that
18:19 the music play was shut down.
18:21 There were big companies,
18:23 and the people who were responsible for it,
18:26 they all started to go on strike.
18:28 The music plays did not have such companies.
18:31 Similarly, the company was shut down
18:33 because of Chitrapat.
18:35 Similarly, there has been an attack on these plays
18:37 by the people of Chitrapat or Durdas.
18:39 You can watch a film at home,
18:41 so you have to go to the theatre.
18:43 All the theatres in Pune are now on the verge of shutting down.
18:47 Some have shut down and some are on the verge of closing.
18:50 So now you get it at home.
18:52 It takes time for the music play to reach.
18:54 The medium of drama is so influential.
18:57 How can a play take an actor to the top of the nation?
19:02 This is an example.
19:04 A boy was awarded in the drama competition.
19:09 Now, he is awarded in the play.
19:11 His mother told everyone that he was awarded.
19:14 In the Kodumbi program,
19:16 his mother told everyone that he was awarded.
19:18 Everyone said, "Do it."
19:20 After he did the play,
19:22 there was a woman among the audience.
19:26 She called a Chitrapat director and told him,
19:29 "I have found the boy you are looking for."
19:32 The Chitrapat director called him.
19:35 The boy went there and did the play.
19:39 He watched the play and was selected for the play.
19:45 He was awarded the President's Award for his performance.
19:49 The boy's name is Ashwin Chitale.
19:51 The play's name is Shwas.
19:53 A play can take a boy to the President's Award.
19:58 This is how influential this play is.
20:00 I am very happy that I got the award.
20:02 I was impressed by the way the director
20:04 and the director's teacher taught me to do this.
20:06 I was surprised to see how much people are
20:09 accepting this kind of work.
20:11 I am surprised to see how much people are accepting this kind of work.
20:14 Why is this still happening?
20:16 Why is this still not happening?
20:18 Why are people still not thinking about this?
20:21 I have been working for so many years
20:23 and I am still not able to understand
20:25 how much more work I should have done.
20:27 People are still not accepting this.
20:29 People are still not accepting this.
20:31 People are still not accepting this.
20:33 If I want to do this, will I get a salary?
20:35 This is the first question I have.
20:37 There are a lot of young people in this industry.
20:39 I want to do this as a career.
20:41 Will you give me an audition?
20:43 Will you give me an audition?
20:45 I will not give you an audition.
20:47 I will not give you an audition.
20:49 But I will do something that will make you capable of doing an audition.
20:53 I have played the role of a teacher.
20:57 The reason for this is that
20:59 I have realized that people use this as a stepping stone.
21:03 No one stops here.
21:05 If I had not stopped,
21:07 all these artists who have been created today,
21:09 would they have been created?
21:11 I myself sometimes ask this question.
21:13 If we do this,
21:15 and this flow of people
21:17 who have been created
21:19 and the seeds of this industry are sown,
21:21 if we had brought a variety of artists
21:23 from our own small town,
21:25 if we had gone to Chitrapat,
21:27 if we had gone to the owners,
21:29 then we would not have got this time
21:31 to take up the challenge.
21:33 Now, some people come to take up the challenge
21:35 after completing their careers
21:37 and the shopkeepers say that it is a different thing.
21:39 But I decided that we should stop at this step.
21:41 And this is the work to do.
21:43 This work is important.
21:45 Prakash Parkhy has been contributing to the theater field
21:47 for the past 51 years.
21:49 We salute his work.
21:51 See you in the next episode of Naveya Mahiti Sahal.
21:53 Thank you.
21:55 (upbeat music)