Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Oct 1: Balwant Thakur’s Hindi play ‘Jaal’ staged here today under Natrang’s weekly theatre series ‘Sunday Theatre’ in the open air at Rani Park, Jammu under the direction of Neeraj Kant.
The play was not based on one story-line but as an experiment Balwant Thakur has woven multiple stories in one theme, focusing the spread of drug menace like a mesh, this taking the toll of the strongest workforce of the country.
In a sequence, a young boy is shown struggling for a good company after his passing of the school and entry in the college. He is isolated for not being the consumer of intoxications. All around him treat him like a child which really frustrates him and to prove that he has grown-up as a young man now, he starts consuming a variety of intoxications.
In another sequence, a rural inhabitation particularly the men-folk is shown drowned in the menace of alcohol. In a sequence, the daily routine of a villager is shown who consumes the whole of his daily earnings seeking alcohol. Being drunk completely he has lost his way home.
By the time, a local escorts him to his place where in the middle of the night this drunken man starts beating his sleeping wife and kids for not receiving him on his arrival. When the escort intervenes to save the poor lady and children, he is blamed for having ill intentions towards his wife.
The play unfolds a series of incidents where people influenced by drugs, alcohol and other intoxications create hell for themselves as well as for others. Through this play Balwant Thakur has tried to make an appeal to save mankind from this dragon.
Actors who outshined in their respective performances and left an impact of their acting included Chirag Anand, Aadesh Dhar, Kananpreet Kaur, Aadesh Dhar, Gopi Sharma, Kushal Bhat, Sumit Bandaral, Abhimanyu Choudhary and Sanket Bhagat. The show was coordinated by Mohd Yaseen and Neeraj Kant presented the show before the audiences.
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