Imphal, August 01 2010: Theatre buffs in the State will soon be able to watch Kalidas's Shakuntalam on stage once again.

State theatre exponent Kshetrimayum Jugindro Singh is all set to depict the famous epic in Manipuri.

"It took me four months to train my artistes to enact Abhigyana Shakuntalam," on stage at Jawaharlal Nehru Manipuri Dance Academy at Imphal on August 8," Jugindro said while talking to reporters at his Langthabal Kunja theatre complex.

The renown theatre personality is going to add some Manipuri taste in his play by introducing Manipuri culture, tradition and costume.

"I put the traditional Manipuri costume, folk music, martial art form, Nat Sankritana and Pung Cholom movements and a little classical dance format in my play," Jugindro (52) said adding that the inner theme of the play and characteristic of the deep romance of Sakuntala and King Dusyanta is not doctored.

And it would be the major difference between my play and others, he added.

"Though this experimental play, I want to expose all our deep culture and tradition to the world," Jugindro who has established his own theatre group 'Manipuri Ensemble" way back in 1986, he said.

It is also an attempt to add a new taste in performance using indigenous form of performing arts, he said adding emphasis is also given to instilling the science of theater among the actors and empowering them the strength of exteriorizing their inner truth in performance.

Jugindro, popularly known as Kshetri Jugindro got his diploma from the National School of Drama, New Delhi in 1986 and since then he has acted in over forty plays and directed 34 plays.

A state Akademi awardee, Jugindro , who has written over fifteen plays also participated in hordes of international theatre festivals in the then USSR, Edinburgh, Scotland, Netherlands, Belgium, China, Japan, USA, New Zealand, Germany and Dublin.

In the late eighties and early nineties, Jugindro, a resident of Singjamei Kshetri Leikai in Imphal, has produced and directed hordes of tribal plays in their own culture, tradition and language.

"My aim is to explore the potentialities of Manipuri actor vis-�-vis modern theatre by organizing theatre workshop etc.

Promotion and dissemination of tribal arts and culture of Manipur through the medium of theatre is also one of my cherished dreams," Kshetrimayum Jugindro said.

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