This Week: Showcraft Is Producing The Vrindavan Prakash Mahotsav For Earth Voice

by  EVENTFAQS Bureau Entertainment | November 18, 2015 | News

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This week, Vrindavan will host a first-of-its-kind divine music festival - Vrindavan Prakash Mahotsav aka Samkirtan Mahotsav, featuring over 40 different styles of music from across the country plus various sacred traditions. The week long festival held from Nov 17 - 25, 2015, began with a splendid launch at the ghats of the heritage monument, Kusum Sarovar.

Organised by the Vrindavan based organisation, Earth Voice, the event aims at spreading the message of peace, love and harmony through the route of spirituality. Supported by the holy town’s Kathak Kendra, the Sangeet Natak Akademi and Dharmik Leela Committee, the fest designed and executed by Delhi-based Showcraft Productions is set to be audio-visual treat.

For the inauguration of the fest, Showcraft has featured a calibrated structure on water with a ramp connecting the stage, along with a musical spectacle backed by state of the art technology.

Speaking about adding a creative visual perspective to the celebration of spirituality, music and cultural heritage, Lalitt Gattani, CEO, Showcraft Productions and creative director of the festival said, “The sheer scale of this week-long celebration of faith, music and spirituality would evoke a sense of awe, by enhancing the technical and production quality and level, we at Showcraft wanted to ensure that feel of awe becomes an unforgettable memory for each person attending the Vrindavan Prakash Mahotsav. The event took over 2 months of pre-production preparations and the venues have seen over 200 people working non-stop for a week. The Fogla Ashram where the festival will be held has been decorated with specially designed props, a set of handpicked artistes have been brought in from Delhi to create Rasleela paintings. The stage has a dynamic backdrop with vibrant images to complement each performance. We have employed a line array system with multiple hosting points to ensure we get the same decibel levels across the venue. We have extensively used intelligent lighting to highlight the naturally beautiful surrounding while adding to the grandeur of props used.”

The festival being organised to commemorate the 500th anniversary of the 16th century monk and reformer Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, will also feature dance and katha alongside musical tribute to the divine. Samkritan- the music fest is a confluence of divine singing from temples across the country to the Shabad in gurdwaras, Sufi songs, Haveli kirtan, Samaj gayan, Dhrupad and Dhamar in temples to Carnatic Classical Samkirtan groups of the South. The inaugural event will feature various artistes through the week, including the Halder group with 108 Mridangams, Warsi Brothers, Dhani Singh and party performing Charkula, The Manganiyaars from Rajasthan led by Anwar Khan, Padawali group from West Bengal, Carnatic Vocalist B Suchitra who is a Harikatha exponent, and Parvati Das Baul.