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Natrang stages ‘Aurat’ in Sunday Theatre
8/7/2011 9:54:17 PM
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JAMMU, Aug 7: Safdar Hashmi’s famous street play ‘Aurat’ adapted in proscenium style and directed by Neeraj Kant was presented here today at Natrang Studio Theatre in its weekly program ‘Sunday Theatre’.
The play is woven around a number of women who represent a country girl, a housewife, an illiterate woman and an educated girl. It throws light upon the various problems being confronted the by fair sex and the crimes against them. Despite having constitutional guarantees of equality, the women today are striving for their very existence.
Play opens with a story of a girl who is willing to read and write in an illiterate family. Her father makes her to stop schooling because he does not want to educate her because she is a girl. Her brother on the other hand is being educated properly. She has to bear humiliations. Besides the opportunities of becoming a good citizen are snatched from her and she is married away in her early teens.
Her husband, a labourer, is a drunkard. He and his mother torture the girl mentally as well as physically. At the age of twenty, she becomes mother of four children. The second part of the story shows a girl, who is educated up to pre-college standard. This girl comes from a poor family and has struggled a lot in achieving her present standard. Still she has to face discriminations regarding admission into a college. She has to face eve-teasing and other malpractices in the buses and streets.
Although women are the symbol of creativity, she is the builder of our society, yet it is she who is depressed and deprived of any rights. She is always dominated by males and sometimes by women themselves. If the situation is to be changed, we shall have to accept women as our counterpart and equal to man not as a slave. The artists who participated in the play included Rahul Singh, Sajra Qadir, Rajni Bhatti, Sakshi Prakash, Sachin Saini, Ajay Singh, Uplaksh Singh, Syed Fardeen and Vinay Manhas.
The lights of the play were executed by Neeraj Kant. The presentations were done by Sumeet Sharma. Mohd. Yaseen coordinated the show.
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