Qadir Ali Baig Theatre Festival off to colourful start

Hyderabad, Nov 19 : The annual Qadir Ali Baig Theatre Festival got off to a colourful start with the staging of internationally-acclaimed play ‘Quli: Dilon ka Shahzaada at the historic Moazzam Jahi Market, one of the city’s key landmarks.
The recently-restored Moazzam Jahi Market courtyard was the imposing backdrop for the staging of the play, a production of Qadir Ali Baig Theatre Foundation.
‘Quli: Dilon ka Shahzaada’ retold the love legend of King Quli Qutub Shah. Directed by Mohammad Ali Baig and written by Noor Baig, this heritage play has been staged at 50 international festivals around the world, including at the University of Oxford and the Edinburgh Fringe. The play featured Mohammad Ali Baig, Noor Baig, Rashmi Seth, Vijay Prasad and Qawwali by musicians of the Warsi gharana.
Chief Justice of Telangana High Court, Raghvendra Singh Chauhan, unveiled the brochure of Qadir Ali Baig Theatre Festival 2020 in the presence of Begum Razia Baig, Chairperson of Qadir Ali Baig Theatre Foundation, Commissioner of Department of Information and Public Relations, Arvind Kumar, and Principal Secretary (Tourism and Culture), K.S. Sreenivas Raju.
The rest of the festival will continue at the Radisson Blu Plaza from November 20 to 22 with five different plays by groups from Mumbai, Guwahati, Jaipur and Delhi.
The festival is being held in an abridged format this year due to the Covid-19 pandemic.