‘Full Stop’ co-directors Raghu and Yatra Srinivassan, and cameraman Mohandas.
Temperate July evenings are
usually the perfect setting for outdoor functions in and around
Auroville. But when the skies open and wash out a performance and
its audience of 125 people, it says much about an organisation’s
professionalism that it can bundle the audience, projector and sound
system into the nearby building, and have the show up and running
again in a mere five minutes. Yatra Multimedia’s screening of its
most recent films demonstrated that the organisation embodies the old
show business adage: “The show must go on.”
Yatra has grown considerably
since Auroville Today’s 2009 profile of its founder Srinivas, who
now sports the professional name Yatra Srinivassan. The Yatra
organisation now consists of two arms: Yatra Multimedia, the
commercial arm that makes films and street plays; and the
non-commercial Yatra Foundation, which provides (mostly free) dance,
acting, music, painting a...
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