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| For Chang, Natrang moves out of studio walls, hold open theatre | | Gatt at Rani Park | |
Early Times Report
Jammu, Jan 24: Coming out from the four walls of the theatre, the Natrang staged a Dogri play "Gatt" directed by Balwant Thakur at Rani Park in its Sunday Theatre Series. .
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 tends to shrink their own responsibilities and pass it on to others. Instead they indulge in high sloganeering, claiming to be the redeemers of suffering masses. This is symbolized by a person falling into a ditch who pleads 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 his 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 and Pakistan, 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 meeting is over, the wooden planks are removed but no one pays any heed to the fallen-man in the ditch. The slogans of uplift of the poor fade away with flowing dusty wind. The play reflects the plight of the poor masses who continue to suffer for want of help from those at the helm of affairs.
Pawan Verma, Rohit Verma, Mohammad Yaseen, Pankush Verma, Rahul Singh and Mohit Sharma acted in the play while Sumeet Sharma coordinated the show.
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