‘We are living in a world of fabrications’

Nona signifies 'lie' in English," says Kerala chief Jino Joseph in regards to the title of his most recent Malayalam play, "since, these days, we are living in a universe of manufactures, from deception and phony news to meat bans and songs of praise in silver screens". Nona has been shortlisted for the lofty Mahindra Excellence in Theater Award 2018 (META) and will battle with nine others from crosswise over India in classes, for example, Best Production, Best Director, and Best Script. Joseph won in these classifications in META 2015 for Mathi, which implies sardine (in Malayalam) and utilized the unassuming fish to investigate the impacts of free enterprise on a town in Kerala. Mathi additionally got lead on-screen character Renji Kankol, a previous fish vender, a Best Actor. As he plans to acquire Nona to Delhi April, Joseph discusses the underside of preferring your nation. 

How can it feel to be back on the META arrange? 

Winning the META in four classifications was a major accomplishment for me. My folks were farming workers in a remote town in Kannur and I grew up with theater. The '80s and '90s were great circumstances for expert and business theater in Kerala as sanctuaries and holy places would have plays and I used to take an interest in them. I never thought significant honors were for individuals like me. The META gave a curve to my venue profession. In Kerala, just a few people have this honor prior. 

You work with non-proficient performing artists in your plays, including Nona. 

For Nona, I have chosen a provincial venue aggregate from Calicut locale of Kerala. The entertainers are tenderfoots, who have made a gathering called Black Theater. The performing artists are day by day workers, ranchers and some work in little shops. I used to educate yet am full-time into theater now. 

What is the account in Nona? 

Prashant is the saint cum-antagonist of this play. His dad is an exceptionally poor worker, who buckles down and has his own particular political perspectives. Prashant has considered and now set up a promoting office. He has advanced a proposition to the administration to make a film to get the message out that India is sparkling. His proposition has endorsed and he begins pre-creation work for it. In the start of the play, Prashant draws a guide of India on the patio with the assistance of ancestral individuals. When they request compensation, he says this was a piece of helping the nation so they didn't need to be paid. 

What is the part of Renji Kankol, your Best Actor from Mathi? 

He plays an entertainer. Prashant has two associates — a conjurer and a goon. To start with, when Prashant tries to compose individuals for the shoot of the promotion film, he comes up short. This is the point at which the conjurer enters the photo and he demonstrates a few traps that charm individuals. Gradually, individuals get pulled in to him and Prashant gets a section into their psyches. The conjurer tells general society, 'In the event that you remain with Prashant all things considered, he can make greater enchantment for you'. He is an illusionist who influences individuals to accept. 

How have you reproduced rustic Kerala in Nona? 

Nona is enormous and substantial with regards to sets and specialized angles. The whole stage resembles a slanting stage that moves in various ways conveying the cast of just about 25 performers. The stage is additionally a moving one, turning all over with the on-screen characters. When it runs up with the characters, we can utilize the lower bit of the stage. We are utilizing four or five hens in the play. Subsequent to drawing the guide of India, Prashant chooses his more youthful sibling to confine every one of the hens and different creatures from entering the guide. The issue begins there.