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| Gulzaar’s ‘Ravi Paar’ staged at Natrang’s Sunday Theatre | | |  Early Times Report
JAMMU, September 11: For the first time it happened that two plays of Natrang were staged at two different places at the same time. Where one team of Natrang was performing the play ‘Choona Hai Aasmaan’ written and directed by Balwant Thakur at S P College Auditorium
Srinagar. The other team was staging another play ‘Raavi Paar’ at Natrang Sunday Theatre Series which is not just continuing but flourishing for the last seven years.
‘Ravi Paar’- based on a famous story of Gulzaar was staged at Natrang’s Sunday Theatre. The Solo play was designed and enacted by Deepak Virdhi a versatile actor of Natrang and directed by Neeraj
Kant. An actor-audience communion could be seen during the performance which made audience hold the breath at sudden dramatic stresses. “Ravi Paar” is the story of India at the time of partition. Religious fanatics of both sides showed no mercy on anyone who didn’t believed
in their religion, religion which was neither Hinduism nor Islam they all practiced religion of hatred. The narrator who himself performs the lead character of the play Darshan Singh talks about the country
and its partition the afterglow of which continues to this day. After partition Darshan Singh and his family, takes asylum in a nearby Gurudwara.
They spend their days there listening to all kind of rumors about the things happening outside. Amidst all the chaos ‘Shahni’ gives birth to twins but one of the twins born was very weak and had very bleak
chances of survival. Meanwhile Darshan Singh gets the news of arrival of special train from India which has arrived to carry people back to the country where they were supposed to live now for rest of their
lives.
Darshan Singh leaves Gurudwara and reaches station in a rush only to find out train was extremely over crowded, somehow he finds some space for himself and his family on the top of train. After the night falls and train leaves the Station Darshan Singh notices that one of the kid was no longer moving and was cold realizing that the kid was dead he started wailing in consternation. People nearby tried taking the dead kid away from ‘Shahni’ but the shocked mother refused to let go of the dead kid.
As the train passed over the river Ravi amidst all the clamor and building anticipation of the crowd about reaching back home, someone whispered in Darshan Singh’s ear that he should toss the dead kid into
the river. Feeling helpless he quietly takes the kid away from ‘Shahni’ and tosses the kid into the river only to find out that ‘Shahni’ was still embracing the dead kid.
Deepak Virdhi as an actor was highly successful in evoking emotional response of the audience. The lights were executed by Pawan Verma. The sets were erected by Abhinav Vimarsh and Sushil Raina. The show was coordinated by Sumeet Sharma who also did the presentations.
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