Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Dec 26: In the ongoing 10 day Annual Drama Festival, Bhoorang Foundation presented a Kashmiri play’ ‘Mool’, written and directed by Makhan Lal Saraf, here today at Abhinav Theatre Jammu.
The play was about that Niranjan Nath Bamzi, an ex employee of the Department of Archives who lives in a make shift Government building outside a cremation ground. His only daughter, who is married, stays in Delhi. Niranjan Nath Bamzai is looked after by his affectionate sister’s son, Kidar Nath Badam, popularly known as Kida -an eccentric.
Niranjan Nath discovers his young- age beloved ‘Harmaal [‘now widowed and childless. She lives as a tenant in the neighborhood. Their young age relationship revives now as companions. Meanwhile, the statues of Kashmiri Pandit and Panditani are reported to have been stolen from the State museum at Srinagar.
Bamazi ventures out and reaches Kashmir along with Harmal. Bamazi and Harmaal are caught in a stone pelting incident. They bleed to death. Nobody comes to their rescue. They turn into stones. People of the land and the Government fail to save them. Niranjin Nath Bamzai and Harmaal have rejoined their roots.
The museum authority and the people of Kashmiri are surprised when they see Kashmiri Pandit and Panditani back in the museum with a change. They carry a book in their hands which details the story of their uprooted ness from the land of their ancestors. The book is written in ‘Bold red letters’. The format of the play Mool was woven in a tragic comical texture which gave the expression of unending will to overcome defeat and was also a experience with one line dramatization .
The actors who portrayed various roles in the play, were Shvam Bhatt as Youth/ Mandaali-1, Ranjit Gurakha as Youth -2/ Mandli -2, Ajay Waguzari as Youth -3/ Old man, Ashok Bhat as Kidar Nath, Rohita Razdan as Kusam Ji, Kusam Tickoo as Old Lady and Harmaal, Bansi Matto as Old man and Makhan Lal Saraf as Niranjan Bamzai / Old man and voice over.
The Music was designed by AmarJeet Singh, make-up by Bindya Raina Tickoo, lights designed and executed by Pankaj Sharma and Raj Kumar Bhatt and sound by Lokesh Chander.
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