“Chinta” – A play based on TB staged by Nav Durga Kala Manch

Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU Sept 28: We all know that AIDS is a deadly disease but there is another disease which is as harmful as AIDS and that is Tuberculosis (TB). Nav Durga Kala Manch today staged Shashi Bhushan’s dogri play Chinta based on the deadly disease Tuberculosis in its ongoing Friday Theatre Series at Performing Art Studio, Jammu. The play was directed by Rakesh Dogra.
The play beautifully portrayed about the deadly disease TB, its precautions and preventions. The play starts with some villagers who are playing cards. Meanwhile two villagers starts coughing. Here the master (teacher) enters the scene and somehow manages the ill villagers for check up. During check up, both the villagers are detected +ve for TB. The doctor advised them to go through the complete course of medicines for a limited period. One of the villager goes with the advice of the doctor while the other neglects that.
In due course of the time. One villager completely gets cured of the disease while the other villager advised to go with the treatment with increased medicines and period. The patient still misses some doses and hence his disease becomes incurable. Here the villagers feel that if he would have gone with the proper treatment then his life could be saved. Ultimately he died with the feeling that what would happen to his family after his death. Thus through the play it was fully depicted that TB is curable only if we go with the proper treatment as advised by the doctor.
The artists who beautifully convey the message includes Dilshad Shazi, Kibu Bharat, Tarun Sudershan Vasson, Praveen Sharma, Ashwani Sharma, Rakesh Dogra and Shashi Bhushan. Lights were executed by Sumit Sudan while music was handled by Kamaljeet Singh Jordan, Make up was done by Reetu Manhas. Aaditya Bhanu did the presentation.