Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Oct 19: Theatre group ‘Natrang’ here today staged Hindi play ‘Purvabhyaas’ written by Om Prakash and directed by Neeraj Kant.
The play ‘Purvabhyaas’ is a satirical stage comedy that unfolds in a small town where two self-proclaimed healers, an overconfident Hakim and a flamboyant hypnosis professor are fierce rivals.
Hakim swears by his miraculous ‘Amar Bhaskar’ powder, prescribing it to everyone from a nervous middle-aged woman to a farmer whose cow refuses to eat grass and give milk. Meanwhile, the professor uses dramatic mind-control sessions, urging patients to imagine wild forests, lions and elephants, only to leave them more terrified than before.
Their competitive worlds clash when both are summoned to treat a young boy who has mysteriously fainted at home. Instead of curing him, they plunge into a ridiculous battle of words and the parents watch in dismay.
Suddenly, the boy springs up and reveals the truth that he’s perfectly healthy and was merely rehearsing for a play with ‘Natrang’ theatre group, where he must lie still on stage for two hours.
The truth makes both the Hakim and the Professor look foolish.
The artists who performed in the play were Pawan Verma, Aryan Sharma, Suhani Sareen, Kushal Bhat, Kartik Kumar, Krishay Bhatia and Vandana Thakur; lights were executed by Neeraj Kant, presentations were done by Prerna Sharma and the show was coordinated by Mohd. Yaseen.
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