Vijayawada: Online playlet competitions inaugurated in city

Vijayawada: Lavu Venkateswarlu & Kalluri Nageswara Rao Kala Parishad, Varagani, Guntur district inaugurated online playlet competitions on Friday. Keeping in view of government instructions due to lockdown, the organisers decided to conduct online competitions for 20 playlets scheduled for screening from June 5 to 14. Everyday two playlets will be screened, which can be viewed in Facebook.

The competitions were inaugurated with the playlet 'Dongalu' presented by Chaitany Kalabharathi, Karimnagar and the competitions were followed by Guntur-based Abhinaya's playlet 'Ammakomuddu'.

The playlets 'Aa chandrarkam,' 'Sanchalanam', 'Nalla Samudram,' 'Ateetam,' 'Soundarya Bharatam,' 'Ranke,' 'Anaganaga,' 'Okka mate chalu,' 'Aagraham,' 'Kevalam Manushalam,' 'Madhuparkalui,' 'Gurthu teliyani Savam,' 'Srikaram,' 'Dayyam,' 'Talupulu terichye unnayi,' 'Jarugutunna Katha' and 'Rendu Nissabdhala Madhya' will be slotted in Facebook channel.

The organiser P Nageswara Rao said due to COVID-19, this year they could not conduct competitions and hence the new concept of online playlet competitions was planned. He added all the screening playlets had secured best awards in their competitions for the last 5 years. Best and second best along with individual prizes will be given and the celebrations would be conducted with the help of Zoom.