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| ‘Crossroads’ at Natrang’s Sunday Theatre | | | Early Times report
Jammu, May 3- Natrang’s Sunday Theatre brought to fore entirely a new experimental play ‘Crossroads’, conceived, written and directed by Sumeet Sharma. For the first time like a film shows, Natrang organized three shows of the play today at Natrang Studio Theatre at 12 pm, 3 pm and 6 pm.
Introducing to the audience, Natrang director Balwant Thakur said that Sumeet Sharma with sheer his own quest for a new theatre methodology has evolved a distinctive style and has produced mind-blowing theatre plays like ‘Mind Games’, ‘Crazy Kiya Ray’, ‘Gifty’ and many others. He complimented Sumeet Sharma for being selected for country’s prestigious honor-Bismillah Khan Yuva Sangeet Natak Akademi Award.
The play ‘Crossroads’ exhibits in a very hilarious manner, the internal confusion which rules all of us, whenever it comes to take an important decision, we tend to seek advices from everyone known to us and those advisors give the suggestion according to their perception, which may not suit us and makes us more vulnerable indeed. This sub-letting of mind pushes us to a situation which ought to invite more problems than solutions. In the play, an ever confusing character (Parul) is shown who is about to lose his job because of recession. Unable to find a way out he seeks the suggestions from his friends & relatives regarding what to do next. The suggestions were so ambiguous and superficial that he is not benefited by that. In a process of his introspection, he goes back to his old memories, every time when he had to take some decision and to pick one option, he was not capable to think on his own, be it choosing a school, which subjects to opt, how to look for a life partner or how to behave with the wife and a score of the similar incidents. He is not happy of his confusing nature but having no other mindset, continues to be like that.
Sumeet Sharma played the role of ‘Parul’, Mohit as ‘Lissa’, Rohit as ‘Guddu’, Gaurav Jamwal as ‘Gaggu’, Virender Singh as ‘Balwinder’, Rahul Singh as ‘Rahul’, Vikram as ‘Ketan’, Balwinder as ‘Father’ Hemant Bholla as waiter and Sahitya Sharma as ‘Child Parul’ played their roles with professional expertise.
The lights of the play were designed and executed by Gaurav Jamwal and Mohit Sharma did the music of the play.
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