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| Toba Tek Singh staged as solo play | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Dec 2:Urdu writer Saadat Hasan Manto’s most popular short story “Toba Tek Singh” is being turned into a solo play at performing Art Studio, Tangewali Gali, Kachi Chawni, Jammu which is being performed under the ongoing Friday Theatre Series, Akele Rang Utsav-2011 and Actor Speaks @ Daily Soap organized by Nav Durga Kala Manch by Aaditya Bhanu.
The play Toba Tek Singh was designed, directed and acted by Lucky Gupta who played 14 different characters in the play which was highly appreciated.
The story revolves around Bishan Singh, a Sikh inmate in a Lahore asylum who is going to be transferred to India from the town Toba Tek Singh following the partition.
The central character Bishan Singh was a wealthy Sikh landowner from Toba Tek Singh who by cruel destiny had landed up in the mental asylum. On receiving news of being transferred he was besieged by doubts of the location of his village.
The entire play is set in 1948 in a madhouse and all the characters except the security guards of the madhouse are insane. It revolves around the confusion and chaos of newly formed Pakistan and the largest exodus in History. Using the mentally unbalanced as his mouthpiece, Manto gives a strong message of peace and implies the futility of man made and Politico-Religious boundaries. The characters are heavily symbolic of the average man, the innocent victims and the millions of pawns in the game of Political chess.
Toba Tek Singh is basically a satire which makes you laugh and cry in turns but above all it compels you to sit up and think and rethink.
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