pune sir parshurambhau sp college has won this years purushottam karandak the prestigious intercollegiate theatre competition the best actor overall and best actor male awards went to the students from sp college while the best actress award was given to a student of cummins collegeanil gherade cultural representative of sp college said our play named 300 missing got the trophy this play is based on the life of french filmmaker georges mlis this was written by gaurav barve and yash ruikar together mlis was a revolutionary filmmaker but today nobody knows him hence we wanted our audience to have a sneak peak into his lifebarve who won the best actor overall award for his portrayal of georges mlis said that while he would like to try out other forms of performing arts like cinema and small screen theatre is his true love theatre is where my acting started and i would always want to pursue this but yes if something good comes along i would like to experiment with other forms too like films and televisionbarve devoured scores of videos on mlis available on youtube to understand his character he was a complicated man and also one of the best actors the world has ever seen i wanted to get the nuances right and hence i read and saw almost everything that i could on him said barve who is a first year ba student at sp collegethe cummins college of engineering for girls won the second prize while pune institute of computer technology got the third prize yash ruikar from sp college was awarded the best actor male while sharayu dhote was given the best actress award cummins college of engineering for girls also won the award for best experimental playthere were 51 participants in total out of which 9 were selected for the final round the prize distribution ceremony will be held on september 22 at bharat natya mandir sp college will present its play then we are already done with karandak in kolhapur and ratnagiri the competition in nagpur will be held in november while due to renovation work of a theatre in jalgaon the date of competition there is undecided said mangesh shinde trustee of maharashtriya kalopasak which organizes the competitionshinde further said that the competition in mumbai is still undecided there were some indiscipline issues in mumbai we found that students were not sticking to rules of the competition in mumbai and hence we are in talks with officials there on whether to organize another competition or stop it forever the final decision will be taken by month end added shindeour play named 300 missing got the trophy this play is based on the life of french filmmaker georges mlis this was written by gaurav barve and yash ruikar together mlis was a revolutionary filmmaker but today nobody knows him hence we wanted our audience to have a sneak peak into his life