Bharati is a musical that features around 100 people (actors, dancers, musicians, singers, acrobats and a narrator), as well as huge video projections and colourful costumes, and it tells the story of Siddharth, an Indian-born engineer who lives in the US and who goes to Varanasi to work. In the beginning Siddharth, who is totally westernised, patronizes Indian culture, but he is strongly attracted by Bharati, an Indian, orphan girl. While he falls in love with the girl, Siddharts falls in love also with India and its culture, and the geographical journey that he took towards his homeland turns out to be a journey inside himself and towards his origin, which makes him look at the world in a renewed way. Bharati is not a simple love story, but a real journey taken both by Siddharts, who gets to know himself, also asking himself and to the public important questions about the necessity of finding a balance between tradition and modernity, and by the public, which for 90 minutes has the possibility to approach Indian culture sitting comfortably in an armchair. The show, indeed, is also meant to bring India, with its huge music, traditions and values heritage, all over the world, trying to go beyond the boundaries that too often exist between near and faraway peoples.



One of the most important principles of Indian culture, indeed, is the Vasudhaiva Kutumbkam, according to which all people are connected by the same string and they are all part of the same family, and Bhurati is intended as a small attempt to reduce the distances between peoples and to help them knowing each other. We can say that watching the show means entering Indian world, discovering its language, philosophical and historical varieties, lifestyles and tradition, but above all its music and dance, which are distinctive features of Indian people and collective consciousness of Indians all over the world. Music, indeed, plays a main role in the show, and the story told by the narrator (Sutradhar) is interspersed with around 14 songs and dances. While dances give the public the impression of living in an enchanted world, where magic elements are the normality and normal things, vice versa, are magic, the songs (rearranged Bollywood songs) serve the story, as they highlights the development of the plot as well as the moods and thoughts of the characters.

Bharati is a summary of Indian music, tradition and ideals, which will make you learn something more about this culture, but which will also entertain and thrill you.

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Tickets: various prices

Date: 21st 22nd February 2009

Location: La Halle Tony Garnier, Lyon, France