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| ‘Do Kalakaar’ – a tragedy of two artists staged | | | Early Times Report
Jammu 24th May
Natrang’s weekly series Sunday Theatre witnessed a new theatrical experience ‘Do Kalakaar’ Bhagwati Charan Verma directed by Balwant Thakur showcasing the tragedy of a poet and a painter. Ironically the play unfolds certain harsh realities which are not generally known about the creative people. Churamani and Martand are two friends both had once aspired to rule the Bollywood with their respective creative strengths. The poet had dreamt of becoming the top Hindi film lyricist and the painter had set a goal for himself to become the most sought after art director of the tinsel town. But destiny lands them in a situation where both are forced to use their creative energies in creating situations and cooking stories just to escape the harassment of their landlord who has not been paid the rentals of a dingy room for the last six months. The playwright has beautifully portrayed the tragic fate of the creative people who are expected to create magic and electrifying artistic experience through their unlimited creative energies are shown wasting their creativity just to ensure survival.
The play opens at a situation where both the poet and the painter have locked themselves in a room which is being visited by the landlord to collect the rent from them. The landlord forcefully makes his entry despite all-out unsuccessful efforts to hold him back are made by them. When caught at a corner both take shelter of their creative mind and start cooking highly logical execues to impress the landlord so he allows them to continue till they are able to realize their unfulfilled dreams. Both sell him the dreams to the extent that the room rented out to them will once become a museum which once hosted the great genius of the world of poetry and painting. Finding the distance beyond measurement between their dreams and the reality, the landlord refuses to buy their arguments and throws them out of the room to face further rejection and dejection of the society. Both the poet and the painter get this realization at this point of the time that despite having a civilization of thousand years at our back this world is not meant for creative people.
The roles of poet and the painter were aesthetically played by Balwinder Singh and Vokram Sharma. Despite being new to the profession both demonstrated substantial hope in their work. The cruel landlord was ably played by Gaurav Jamwal. Rohit Verma and Aman Khullar were in the supporting cast who successfully enlivened their characters. The lights were designed and executed by Mohit Sharma and Mohd. Yaseen scored the music of the play.
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