Addakar Arts – Ankahein Samvaad

Some stories are told through words. Others live in the silences between them. Ankahein Samvaad is born in that silence.

With this debut production, Adaakar Arts makes its first artistic offering at the Mississauga Multilingual Fringe Festival 2025, in proud collaboration with the visionary Sawitri Theatre Group. This play is not simply performed—it is experienced, viscerally and intimately, by both the artists on stage and the audience bearing witness.

Originally penned by the acclaimed Gujarati author Kaajal Oza Vaidya and translated with poetic nuance into Hindi by Akhil Pandya, Ankahein Samvaaddares to explore the language of what remains unspoken. At its heart are three pairs of iconic historical and mythical figures—Duryodhan & Bhanumati, Buddha & Yashodhara, and Mrunalini Tagore & Victoria Ocampo. Each story is rooted in its own time, culture, and conflict. And yet, across centuries, they are bound by one shared truth: the deep ache of things left unsaid.

These are not ordinary dialogues—they are silences that thunder, glances that wound, and distances that echo. What happens when love fails to find words? When truth is buried in dignity, duty, or pride? What remains in the space between hearts?

Our brilliant ensemble—Guru, Dhruva Dwivedi, Gunja, Ashutosh Walia, Sneha Arekar, and Shikha Chowhan—have not just acted; they’ve unearthed emotion from silence. Every gesture, every pause, every breath on stage is intentional, delicate, and powerful. Their performances are illuminated—quite literally—by the thoughtful and atmospheric light design of Dhruv Patel, which carves time and memory on stage like brushstrokes on canvas. And under the soulful background score crafted by Tathaagat Vaidya, the play hums with emotional undercurrents that words alone could never express.

As a director, Ankahein Samvaad has been both a gift and a challenge. It demanded stillness, restraint, and vulnerability. It asked us to listen—not only to each other, but to the spaces in between.

This is theatre as meditation. Theatre as mirror.

To watch Ankahein Samvaad is to journey inward. It will linger with you. It will nudge you long after the lights fade, asking softly: Are there unspoken words resting in your life? What truths lie buried beneath your silences? What conversations are waiting to be set free?

Some stories don’t end with a curtain call. They begin in your own heart.