How many of us really bother to think about the under privileged, young school going aged children working from 9 to 5, about the beggars who just stand and gape at us. Today we just can’t think beyond which brand to choose or which restaurant to go to. People are loosing touch with reality. Mallika Sarabhai, the dancer, actress and choreographer and writer has taken the challenge to sensitise the people of India who have just forgotten about the world that exists outside their comfortable houses.

What’s Unsuni
Unsuni is the new production by Mallika Sarabhai’s Darpana Academy of Performing Arts in Hindi, and Unheard Voices in English. A team of Mallika Sarabhai is performing here in Bangalore. This play will take place in various parts of Bangalore.

Unsuni is a physical, musical theatre piece based on Harsh Mander's book Unheard Voices. Funded by the Royal Netherlands Embassy, Unsuni started in September, 2006 with ten performances in Ahmedabad, at  school and colleges for students, teachers and the public.

Art as a medium
It gives voice to five of India's millions of voiceless people through a series of monologues. These are the marginalised, the unseen; these are the real lives of the faces and hands of the beggars knocking at our car window at the traffic light, or the children running across the street delivering tea to the offices. They show the plights of the less unfortunate through the entertainment media of performance.The performers try to bring the awareness in people or to make them realise that even a little from everybody can make a huge difference, you can even start by just asking your servant if her children needs a tutor.

According to Mallika Sarabhai, “ Art is one of the strongest medium and will further grow, people ask me as why I use so many Hindi songs in the performances, it is only because it appeals to the masses and people from the slum, do watch and copy a lot of styles from the movies .” She said that she was amazed as how young generation today are so ignorant of the happenings around them, and they are in their own worlds.

More performances
Mallika and their group from Ahmedabad are performing in India for free and their only motive is to just say that we care. Janagraha, Akanksha and ivolunteer are the nonprofit organisation which are supporting and working with Unsuni. Unsuni will also perform from June 21 to July 9 at MS Ramaiah Institute of Management between 2 pm to 4, Visthar (NGO) at Doddagubbi post between 6:30 to 8:30 pm, Indian Institute of Science between 4:30 to 6:30 pm,  Mount Carmel college Auditorium between 10:30 to 12:30, Christ College Auditorium between 3 to 5 pm. Shubha Shridhar Phone:9844114441