Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Feb 14: This Sunday, Natrang presented Dogri play ‘Hathen Diyan Dittiyan’ which carried a very powerful and relevant social message.
The play is written by Mohan Singh, a multifaceted personality of Dogri literature and theatre, and directed by Neeraj Kant.
The play opens at the backdrop of a village, where one person (Basenta) is shown in the state of extreme melancholy. He appeared hapless and heartbroken. It was not much late when he reached at the bank of a river to jump and commit suicide but at the very moment, he was grappled by his close friend (Rama), who gets hold of him to save him.
‘Basenta’ pleads to and argues with his friend to let him jump but he doesn’t gets his grip loose. Another villager, ‘Parkash’ also enters in the scene. On asking the reason for such an extreme step, ‘Basenta’ tells that he has tried all the remedies even exorcism, but he cannot get a male child.
“In his consistent attempts to be a father of a boy, he had become the father of six girls yet he has no clue that how and when his wife would give birth to a boy. Though one of a self acclaimed Gods-man has given the prophecy that next time he would definitely get a baby boy, yet he is not sure of his fate”, he told them.
On hearing this, he was lamented and criticized by his fellow villagers for his orthodox thinking. They told him that there is no difference between a girl and a boy, as both boy and girl can bring fortune to the family. “So, rather than getting more girls on earth in order to get a boy, he should concentrate more on their better upbringing. This is how the society will be reformed and would move towards progress”, they added.
Natrang actors who performed in the play included Shivam Singh, Vishal Sharma, Kuldeep Angral and Rishabh Sharma. The sets were designed by Ankush Lakhnotra and Piyush Anand rendered the Lights. Music was scored by Sachin Sharma while Mohd Yaseen did the presentations.
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