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| Main Damini Bol Rahi Hun relives gang-raped victim's ordeal | | |  early times report
Jammu, Sept 11: As thespian director's cut was announced, the ace actor took centre-stage, the proscenium set to fire, and fully packed out K L Sehgal hall burst into uncontrolled sobs.
Neha Lahotra re-lived 'Damini'- the Delhi gang rape victim, to the resounding echoes of shrieking cries of audience, as she orchestrated the harrowing experience of 'the dead girl' who presumably would have suffered through the hands of six demons who devoured hungrily upon her in the moving bus before rendering her as the lump of shredded meat and bones.
"Main Damini Bol Rahi Hun- a half an hour saga was a salutation to the departed soul who died mentally on Delhi roads naked begging for help from the brothers and sisters of her nation, while no body turned up.
The storyline was picked from 'Damini' announcing herself, clad in bridal costumes and sharing her experience while being coming out of a half burnt pyre to speak to her brothers of the nation about her ordeal.
While Neha changes into "Damini' pounced upon by the six demons, she produced a horrifying anecdote of the entire episode as audience looked upon terrified, mum-struck.
Neha's soliloquy was loaded with queries to the media, journalists, ministers, law makers as well as administrative paraphernalia of the system.
The celebrated director of the state Vikram Sharma, a name synonym with daring, novel and innovative dramaturgy who has already introduced appealing themes like Restaurant Theatre and Theatre of Convenience in the state produced and directed 'Main Damini Bol Rahi Hun' through his telling and inquisitive direction while Neha sealed the fate of the character through clinical perfection of her acting prowess.
Conceived by Neha herself and written by her in association with Aaditya Bhanu, the act was assisted by Himanshu Darshan whose logistic and on set innovative support added flavour to the show.
The show in Jammu by Shivani Cultural Society came in Jammu at parallel to the judicial proceedings set in place in Delhi courts with debate among the lawyers as to whether Damini gets justice or not, but the play held audience gel-bound throughout the entire saga.
Balwant thakur, Natrang director, the chief guest on the occasion while showering praises on Vikram for taking up a contemporary and challenging task said that nation needs to wake up from the slumber. He said the play Damini has turned out to be a strong message for the whole nation from Jammu platform and such like endeavors from the city of temples would go long way through theatroical efforts to revolutionize the Indian contemporary settings. |
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