Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Apr 24: A thought pondering and heart rendering performance of ‘Kharaashein’, a collage of Gulzar’s literary creations on riots was presented under the direction of Rahul Singh today in Natrang’s Sunday Theatre Series.
The production was appreciated by audience for its design, craft, lights, music, acting and obviously for its content. Director Natrang Balwant Thakur complimented the young team of Natrang’s actors, technicians and the director for the thought provoking presentation, their excellent teamwork and above all their praiseworthy coordination between various creative departments.
Three different stories on one common plot written by country’s most celebrated writer Gulzaar were presented and the stories were, ‘Ravi Paar’, ‘Hilsa’ and ‘Khuda Hafiz’. ‘Ravi Paar’ is the story of India at the time of partition. Religious fanatics of both sides showed no mercy on anyone who didn’t believed in their religion, after partition Darshan Singh and his family, takes asylum in a nearby Gurudwara. Amidst all the chaos ‘Shahni’ gives birth to twins but one of the twins born was very weak and had very bleak chances of survival. Meanwhile Darshan Singh gets the news of arrival of special train from India which has arrived to carry people to safer place. Darshan Singh reaches station in a rush only to find out train was extremely over crowded, somehow he finds some space for himself and his family on the top of train. After the night falls and train leaves the Station Darshan Singh notices that one of the kid was no longer moving and was cold realizing that the kid was dead, as the train passed over the river Ravi, someone whispered in Darshan Singh’s ear that he should toss the dead kid into the river. Feeling helpless he quietly takes the kid away from ‘Shahni’ and tosses the kid into the river only to find out that ‘Shahni’ was still embracing the dead kid.
The second story ‘Hilsa’ and the third story ‘Khuda Hafiz’ were also presented in the show by Natrang team.
Natrang actors who gave marvellous performances in the play included Rahul Singh, Rajan Thakyal, Shivam Singh and Garima Jasrotia. The lights were operated by Mohit Sharma and the music was rendered by Brijesh Avtaar Sharma. Aishwarya Sathe designed the sets. The show was coordinated by Mohd. Yaseen and Sumeet Sharma did the presentations.
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