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| Dogri play ‘Gatte Ch Maanu’ staged in Natrang Theatre Festival | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
Jammu, Mar 27- Balwant Thakur’s Dogri play ‘Gatte Ch Mannu’ was staged here today in Natrang studio theatre on the 2nd day of the Natrang Theatre festival being organized to celebrate the World Theatre Day.
Based on Kirshan Chander’s famous Urdu classic short story ‘Khadda’, the play is a hard hitting satire on the decay of human values. Balwant Thakur’s new adaptation is highly contemporary that it transports the audience to a situation where they are made to feel and realize it as the happening of the day and much closer to their surroundings and life.
‘Gatt’ shows that one and all tend to shirk their own responsibilities and work and pass it on to others. Instead they indulge in high sloganism, claiming to be the redeemers of suffering masses. This is symbolized by a person falling into a ditch who pleas to help him come out unanswered by one and all. Different people pass by him like surveyors, young men, religious leaders, cops, leader in power and a foreigner. The person in distress is given different excuses for their inability in rendering help to him. The unemployed youth are unable to find out time out of their fixed schedule of hunting for girls. The ‘Sadhu’ showers blessings and prays for peace. The police cop lodges an FIR and asks him to report to the police station. The foreigner lady enquires about his choice between India & Pakistan, which side he would like to take? The situation becomes more dramatic when a minister after a complaint from the public about the worsening of the road condition, makes a round of the area. The workers of the public works department instead of taking out the man from the ditch put wooden planks over the ditch and create a stage for minister’s public speech. Here the minister lists his development revolution and lashes at his opponents for cursing their government for political gains. The public meting is over, the wooden planks are removed but no one plays any heed to the fallen-man in the ditch. The slogans of the upliftment of the poor fade away with the flowing dusty wind. Finally a man from the audience appears and appeals everyone to render a helping hand to this common man who is still in the ditch despite having celebrated sixty-two years of India’s Independence. The play reflects the plight of the poor masses who continue to suffer for want of help from those at the helm of affairs.
Rohit Verma as Aadmi took his performance to all-time heights with his sheer excellence. He was supported by the talented artists of Natrang including Mohit Sharma (Neta & Naujawan) Tajasvi Sharma (Foreigner) Rahul Singh (Karamchari-I) Mohammed Yasin (Karamchari-II) and Gaurav Jamwal (Police officer) Aman Khullar (Ashiq II) Vinod Khajuria (Chela I) and Rajesh Mehta (Sadhu) |
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