Excelsior Correspondent
REASI, May 22: Sangam Theatre Group staged Balwant Gargi’s famous play “Chakku” here today.
On the occasion, BS Sharma, senior citizen and Chairman STG was the chief guest while Romesh Sharma ZEO presided over the programme. The play was directed by M Akram Khan and was well received by the audience.
The play opens at a sea shore where a young man is shown in a frustrated way. He had come to Mumbai to become a hero but after a tiring struggle gets nothing, now afraid of what people will say if he goes back, he decides to end his life in the waves of the sea. When he was about to jump, an old lady stops him and motivates him to live, this sympathy generates a feeling of love in his heart for the lady who appeared double of his age. He asserts that he was never attracted to the young girls as they sans experience and are very strange in their ways, and he longs for emotional love which he may get from the lady of the ripe age only.
On this statements the lady removed her false disguise as she was an actress and appeared before him as a beautiful young girl, which she actually was and admits that his non materialistic thoughts have kindred love for him in her heart, but to her surprise, he was turned off as soon as she unveiled her beauty and he starts negating her. As he was of the opinion that he will get only worldly love from a young girl, which was not his quest. The girl gets offended and leaves him to save her real lover who was annoyed to see her with that young man in a lonely beach. Frustrated, he tries to end his life again but this time he was saved by the mother of the same girl. He proposes her, which she could not resist even knowingly that he is of the age of her son, as his words were so touching.
But the moment she knows he had tried the same with her daughter, her heart was again turned to practicality and she along with her daughter scold him badly.
The artist who acted in the play were Madhu Suria as ‘Mother’, Pankaj as ‘Father’, Sachdev as ‘Young Man’, Rekha as ‘Actress’, and Manoj as ‘Lover’. The set was executed by Arvind Goswami. Makeup was done by Arun Verma, play back singing was done by Romesh Parwana and music was scored by Sushil and Sunil Gill.
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