A mime act competition, Maunaantar, will be held in the city for the first time, this weekend. Owing to the fact that it’s solely dedicated to the art form of mime, various acts have been selected, both from the city as well as from Mumbai, on the basis of the criterion that it has to be a one-act play without speech.

Mime as an art form originated in ancient Greece. One of the cruxes of mime is to use the body to express the story.