after seven years and around 400 shows the eventful journey of the marathi play amar photo studio has come to an end the last show of the play written by manaswini and directed by nipun dharmadhikari was staged in pune this sunday from its unique concept to the ensemble cast of the play featuring sakhi gokhale amey wagh suvrat joshi pooja thombre parna pethe siddhesh purkar and sainath ganuwaad the play made a special place in the hearts of marathi theatre loversread alsomarathi actor suvrat joshi makes his bollywood debut with an action filmwe learnt that suvrat will be seen as an army officeras curtains come down on the play that was essentially a love story with elements of time travel interspersed in it the team remiscenes about the journey and how it shaped thembeing part of the play has been a fulfilling journey sakhi gokhaleit was during their stint in the tv show dil dosti duniyadari that the idea of coming together for this twoact play hit them shares sakhi adding that the entire journey has been fulfilling for all of them she adds we first staged the play in 2016 in the last seven years barring the covidinduced lockdown phase we staged the play in various cities in india as well as abroad the journey has been fulfilling and weve grown with the play today since all of us also have individual work commitments we thought it was time to say an appropriate goodbye to the play interestingly the journey has come a full circle for the team as they ended their journey at the same place that it started from balgandharva rangmandir in pune it was an experience of a lifetime for me parna pethewhile sakhi was part of the original cast the actress had taken a brief break from acting to pursue studies in the uk during this phase actress parna pethe joined the cast in her place parna last performed in the play during their april 21 show speaking about her experience parna says i had watched amar photo studio in 2016 and was immensely impressed by it so when the play was offered to me i didnt think twice before saying yes to being a part of it i acted in almost 200 shows of the play and for me the entire experience was exhilarating i couldnt be a part of the final show as another play of mine charchaughi was to be staged on the same night in mumbai but amar photo studio has been an experience of a lifetime proud that we could bring the younger audience in to watch a marathi play amey waghexperiencing a gamut of emotions amey says that he is happy with the fact the play became popular among youngsters since the play had all young actors on stage it clicked with the young audiences in a big way says the actor adding it was also a firsttime theatre experience for many we had so many young