Bhooshan Bhatt

                                

                                                                          A person with eclectic talents, Mr. Bhatt is a writer, director, music director, lyricist, singer and                                                                           an actor. He started his career working with Rangmandla (Bharat Bhavan) then moving to Rangayana Mysore), Ninasam Repertory (Heggodu) and Shri Ram Centre (Delhi). A prodigy of former NSD Director Late Shri B.V Karanth, Bhatt was his assistant for 14 years. Associated with theatre for over 3 decades, he has worked in almost more than 200 plays of various languages and dialects like, Hindi, Marathi, Kannada, Bundeli, Malavi etc. He has adapted plays from Kannada and Marathi to Hindi. Also composed music of more than 60 plays of various languages.

         

                          Bhatt has worked in the Jhabua Development an Communication Project (JDCP) department of ISRO, Ahemdabad as an actor,writer, director, singer and music director for over 600 episodes based on various social issues to communicate with the tribes of Jhabua. He has written story, screenplay and dialogues for a Chattisgarhi feature film 'Chattisgarh Mahatari' and a Hindi film 'Dekh Tamasha Ravan Ka' which is under production. He has written 42 episodes of 'Malgudi ka Narbhakshi'   Malgudi days). 

 

                       

                         Bhatt has directed around 35 plays and originally written and   directed more than 20, mainly 'Jo Ladhe Deen Ke Heth' (Based on Tatya Tope) ,'Ravan', 'Mooshak Puran' , 'Meera'  , 'Nannu Makoda', 'A Girl..'  etc.His scripts cover a wide range of topics like bonded labor, racism, depression, patriotism etc. He has also written play stories and features for children. Besides being a composer, a play writer, director , etc he is also a Wild Life Film Maker. In the year 2003, he served as a creative head for in house production of Doordarshan,Delhi.Currently,  he is working on sound anthropology and documenting the work of Shri B.V Karanth under the name of 'Raag Karanth' which is a nation wide documentation program on the methodology of B.V Karanth's theatre music and is first of its kind. He has been working non stop with the tribes of M.P and is making a digital library on the Baiga and Bhil tribes. Bhatt has also conducted music workshops in NSD, Bangalore, National College (Bangalore), Hyderabad university and MPSD. He has also conducted theatre workshop for the students of National Military School,Dholpur in November-December 2014. In January 2015 Adopted the play 'Miser by Molière ' for second year NSD students. The show was named 'Apna Rakh Paraya Chakh'. In the month of April 2015, conducted a theatre workshop in Jhabua with 300 students which included tribal children and students from the Deaf and Dumb School of Jhabua. Directed and conducted music for 'Mooshak  Puran' and  'Jo ladhe deen ke het.'  In June 2015, written and conceived music for 'Aranyagatha' , the first production which specifically used tribal stories, music and dialect.