EARLY TIMES REPORT
Kurushetra, Mar 23: Natrang created yet another record by participating in four National Theatre festivals in one go with the presentation of Sumeet Sharma’s Hindi play ‘Mind Games’ at Shimla, Chandigarh, Jalandhar, and Kurushetra. The last show of the series was presented here this evening at the famous Multi Arts Complex, Kurushetra (Haryana) which came in much of the appreciation and was lauded as one of the most effective and original presentation of the festival. Natrang team which left Jammu on 18th March, 2011 presented it’s first show at the historic Gaiety Theatre of Shimla, and the second show was presented at Punjab Kala Bhawan, Chandigarh and the third of the series was presented at Lovely Professional University, Jalandhar. These four festivals have been organized by North Zone Cultural Centre, Ministry of Culture, Govt., of India in collaboration with Language and Culture Department Govt. of H.P., Punjab, Punjab Arts Council, Lovely Professional University and Haryana Kala Parishad.
The play ‘Mind Games’ unveils a very common, unconscious and continuous practice of all human beings, Chatting with Mind and creating baseless abstract stories all the times, which give rise to thoughts which when nurtured become attitude and eventually shape our behavior and personality causing success or failure. The play revolves around a character Ajeet, who represents the mind model of a contemporary man whose rejections, anxiety, likes, dislikes, passions, reasons, fears, emotions, fantasies, dreams, etc. have a lot to share with all of us. The absurd thoughts which he develops create humor but unknowingly we are laughing at our own habits and shortsightedness while laughing at him. The three personalities; what we are, what we think we are and what we think we should be are revealed in the play.
The lucky artists of Natrang who had the occasion to participate in these four National festivals include Sumeet Sharma Gaurav Jamwal, Pawan Verma, Mohit Sharma, Gaurav Triyal, Mohd Yaseen, Niharika Sharma , Rajni Bhatti Aatish Gupta, Vishal Sharma, Charanjeet Bhardwaj, Dheeraj Singh, Shifali Gupta, Sunil Bhardwaj, Tarun Vasan, and Kritika Sharma. The lights are being designed by Suraj Ganjoo, and Pawan Verma scored the music.
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A scene from the play ‘Mind Games’ written and directed by Sumeet Sharma, being presented at Multi Arts Complex, Kurushetra.
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