Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Aug 22: Manoranjan Kala Kendra (MKK), Jammu staged a Punjabi play ‘Rishtiyan Da Ki Rakhiye Naa’ at Abhinav Theatre, Canal Road, Jammu today.
The play is written by Dr Atamjeet and directed by Tejinder Singh Premee, a well known Punjabi theatre personality of Jammu & Kashmir. The play is based on the original shot story ‘Toba Tek Singh’ written by Pakistani writer Shahadat Hassan Monto.
Kavinder Gupta, former Deputy Chief Minister was the chief guest on this occasion. The play was supported by Sangeet Natak Akademi, New Delhi.
The play ‘Rishtiyan Da Ki Rakhiye Naa’ deals with the ethos of the era of partition of India into two countries viz. Hindustan and Pakistan where the people were divided on the basis of religions and subsequently, they had to suffer the fall of values and humanity. Everything was divided i.e. land, people, property etc. and chaos prevailed which caused a great holocaust among masses. A large number of people of all communities were killed and their properties destroyed or looted.
In the play, the case of dividing persons who have turned mad due to traumatic effects of the process of partition and other reasons are shown as being divided on the basis of their religion. The scene is located in a mental asylum where mentally challenged people are kept. The characters of mad people include an army person, a professor, a lawyer, Bachan Singh, a resident of Toba Tek Singh (a place) and his daughter, a chana and ice- cream seller, a dumb man and a mad person who are the central characters of the play and pour out the pathetic condition of the inmates of the asylum and their tyrannies.
Those acted in the play were Tejinder Singh Premee, Ajay Sharma, Ajay Gupta, Tej Pal Singh Marshal, Makhan Lal Sharma, Jang S Verman, Romesh Sharma, Ramesh Raju, Davinder Singh Dhanjal, Satveer Kaur, Manpreet Kaur, Harshpal Singh Bedi, Jayant Sadhotra and Rajan Kumar.
The lights were designed by Ajay Sharma, set by Virji Sumbly, Davinder Singh Dhanjal and Harpreet Singh, music was rendered by Paramjit Titu and makeup was done by Meena Sharma and Vishali Sharma. The play was designed and direction by Tejinder Singh Premee and assisted by Ajay Sharma.
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