mysore the fizz is back at rangayana courtesy bahuroopi a day ahead of bahuroopi the annual winter theatre festival the cultural hub is throbbing with activities ready to serve theatre buffs and those with a flair for dance and music on monday as rangayana got into festival mood artistes and troupes started to arrive for the festival which will open with hindi play soudhagar a production by bhopalbased ranga vidushak directed by acclaimed theatre personality bansi kaul in all 21 plays in four indian languages will be staged at three theatres daily if the advance bookings are any indication the 2013 edition of the national theatre fest will be a big draw within a couple of days over 200 tickets are sold with tickets for rangayana production sadarama natakam scheduled for wednesday selling like hot cakes the festival though is scaled down with just four nonkannada plays coming to mysore this season rangayana blamed it on the small budget to get troupes from across india the sevenday festival will also utilized to map and showcase kannada theatre movement on display will be 1000 plays which is onethird of the total kannada plays scripted till date the theatre repertory which is entering 25 thyear on january 14 is seeking to promote theatre along with art and culture this edition it is trying to support literary activities by promoting the habit of reading given that some 50 per cent of its visitors are youths pustaka parishe is designed to those who are looking for books that are out of print or difficult to locate the readers can drop books into the lot and pick up those which they want free of cost this is to encourage reading habit which is fading away fast b v rajaram the director of rangayana told toi rangayana is seeking to attract the gen x offering folk music and dance and film festival reason the fest is discussing the critical issue of use of natural resourcewater the film festival is mainly focused on the fest theme showcasing many acclaimed movies like water of deepa mehta and our daily bread whats new this edition is that some of the folk arts will perform outside kalamandir folk arts like dollu kunita yakshgana puppet show will be staged at places like jayalakshmipuram j p nagar saraswathipuram kuvempunagar chamundipuram bogadhi ii stage and hootagalli the puppet show will also be staged at three schoolsvanitha sadana krishnamurthypuram vishwa pragna school kanakadasa nagar and government high school in metagalli