City ReporterOn the 21st day of the ongoing Pakistan Theater Festival in Arts Council of Pakistan Karachi, the theater play “Art AurAata” was presented in Urdu and English by Grips Theater Group (GTG) written by Imran Aslam while the cast of the play was FaizaQazi, Khalid Anam, AmeedRiaz, KhalifaSajeeruddin and Ayesha Shaikh were included.
Tributes were paid to Imran Aslam in recognition of his services through the play. President Arts Muhammad Ahmad Shah said in his welcome speech that the idea of holding a theater festival was to pay tribute to our great people like Kamal Ahmad Rizvi, Imran Aslam, Shakespeare and big names of theater.
He said that Imran Aslam was our friend, our guru, our mentor, Imran’s quality was that he never taught as a teacher, he taught people from five years old to 80 years old as friends, even when Imran fell ill he used to come to my office, apparently people think that Imran used to write for children, he used to write for all the mentally immature, Imran Aslam told how to write news in a bad situation, how to do theater. Ahmad Shah further said that we are also planning a children’s theater festival which will last for a whole month. Well-known director and actor Khalid Anam said that the play they are doing today are covering political situations and events. Thank you, President Arts Council Muhammad Ahmad Shah for working on the theater and giving us the opportunity to present our work here. Art and Aata is a bold and timely political satire that fearlessly probes the pulse of contemporary Pakistan with a sharp and witty sense of humour.
