Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Sept 17:Indian Council for Cultural relations (ICCR), Ministry of External Affairs, Govt of India, under its Horizon Series IV organised a Theatre Show ‘Kaua Chala Hans Ki Chaal’ at auditorium of Govt College for Women Gandhi Nagar, here today.
The play directed by Sumeet Sharma was the Hindi adaptation of world famous French comedy by Moliere.
Regional Director, ICCR, Balwant Thakur, while welcoming the guests said that the prime objective of ICCR is to promote global understanding through cultural exchange and bringing nations together through cultural initiatives.
The story of the play was based on one Mr Kumar, a middle aged bourgeois man whose father grew rich as a cloth merchant. His sole aim in life is to rise above his middle class background and be accepted as an aristocrat. To this end, he orders splendid new clothes and applies himself to learning the gentlemanly arts of fencing, dancing, music and philosophy, despite his age. In doing so he continually manages to make a fool of himself, to the disgust of his hired teachers.
A cash-strapped nobleman called Chadha attaches himself to Mr Kumar. He secretly despises him but flatters his aristocratic dreams by telling Mr Kumar that he has mentioned his name to bureaucrats so that he can get Kumar to pay his debts. He dreams of marrying a Princess and Chadha very cleverly promises him to facilitate his affair but actually he himself was dating with Princess on Kumar’s money. Kumar’s daughter ‘Dolly’ loves a middle class boy “Kukku’ but this relationship is not acceptable to Kumar as he is very class conscious.
On this refusal, Bittu, Kukku’s close friend plots a plan, in which he introduces Kukku to Kumar as the Prince of some country who wants to honour Kumar by marrying his daughter. Kumar very easily falls in this trap and agrees to give his daughter to Kukku, who is disguised as Prince.
Pawan Kumar as ‘Kumar’, Anil Tickoo as Chadha, Tajasvi Sharma as Dolly, Rajni Bhatti as Merry, Vikram Sharma as Kukku, Charanjeet Bhardwaj as Bittu and Sunita Pandit as Wife, played their role brilliantly. Lights were operated by Ankush Lakhnotra while music was executed by Rahul Singh.
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