Lalit Gupta
JAMMU, Mar 20: The listless presentation of Dinu Bhai Pant’s long poem ‘Mangoo Di Shabeel’, staged by Greenhorns under banner of Svaraj Productions, not only raised misgivings about the impartiality of the selection process, but put a kind of damper on the much hyped ongoing Dogri Theater Festival, at the Abhinav Theater, today.
‘Mangoo Di Shabeel’, adapted by Rajneesh Gupta, and directed by Kumar Binny, is a scathing critique of money lenders, who in Pre-Independence India, took advantage of misfortunes of the poor and the downtrodden and kept them and their coming generations in perpetual state of debt through the institution of usury.
Notwithstanding the welcome fact that the cast of young actors hailed from moufassil, today’s production banking upon cliched and hackneyed techniques, fell short of representing an artistic rendering of the pathos and helplessness of the gullible masses so admirable portrayed in the progressive poetry of Dinu Bhai Pant, one of the stalwarts of modern Dogri Renaissance.
The cast of the play included Ajay Kumar, Mohit Sharma, Aman Baghat, Ravi Kumar, Aman Kumar, Sanju Nandan, Kannu Baghat, Divya Sharma, Deep Mala, Deepakshi Nandhi. Music was designed by Ajay Rajapuri, lights by Ravinder Sharma, and make-up by Divya.
Next production of the festival; Jagdip Duvey’s Dogri play ‘Amma’ will be staged by The Kalakar on Friday, March 22, 2019.
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