MUSCAT: Two artists from Oman won top awards in the recently held World Online Solo Drama Competition.
Muscat based artists, Geethu Ajay and Sunil Guruvayurappan bagged the Best Actor, Second Best actress and Third best Drama awards.
The results were announced on Wednesday by popular award winning Indian writer, M. Mukundan.
Loka Nataka Vartha is a group of serious drama lovers from all over the world, which initiated the novel concept of online solo drama competition.
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The team welcomed entries of all age, in any language and from any country to be submitted before 10th April 2020. Participants were asked to send an unedited video of their solo performance not exceeding 5 minutes to the organisers. The theme being “We will overcome this dark period”.
The competition registered 300 entries from across the globe, of which 186 which met the competition criteria, were premiered on their Facebook page over a period of 5 days.
There were 8 entries from Muscat and all including Sunil Guruvayurappan’s “The last war” directed by Sunil himself and Geethu Ajay’s “Nyan Oru Pennu” scripted and directed by Ajay Raj, where premiered. Sunil’s and Geethu’s respective drama moved on to be included in the 24 top dramas for the finals, based on voting by famous theatre personalities on the Loka Nataka Vartha whatsapp group.
The shortlisted top 24 dramas where then submitted to the jury panel lead by Priyanandan, National award winning director and a prominent figure in theatre and Malayalam feature film industry. Other jury members consisted of Prof. Chandradasan, Dr. Samkutty Pattomkari, Sreeja Arangottukara, Rafeeq Mangalaseri and Naresh Kovil (LNV –GCCC representative)
Various stalwarts of theatre and film industry took to Facebook to congratulate the duo on their achievement. The awards will be distributed after the current situation caused by the pandemic world over subside. Sunil Guruvayurappan is a Sales professional, and an established actor and drama director while Geethu Ajay is a lecturer, passionate classical dancer, Ex Radio Jockey and well known actor in Theatre and Short films in Muscat. She has also been a TV show host and a Stage anchor.
