The House Blue

Performed by Mritunjay Kumar and Anish Victor at the SSAF Lab

What is home? Does a home need to be a physical space that one occupies? Can a place become a person and vice-versa? How does homelessness feel? What would its contours be? What does it mean to migrate, be displaced, and to desert? What are the ways in which we engage with loss?

The House Blue is a collaborative narrative theatre performance. The work is rooted in a series of images made by Mritunjay Kumar, a documentary photographer and filmmaker, of a government quarter, taken on the last day of its occupancy by his family.

On 1 November 2025, Mritunjay Kumar and Anish Victor held a special show of the performance at the SSAF Lab.

Duration: 80 min

Language: Hindustani (with songs in Nagpuri, Bangla, and Bhojpuri)

Narrator: Mritunjay Kumar (on stage)

Live Music & Design: Anish Victor (on stage)

Lights and A/v Operation: Lakshmi P.

Production Manager: Priti Bakalkar

The House Blue was originally produced by Serendipity Arts Foundation for the Serendipity Arts Festival, 2024.