Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Oct 14: A Hindi play ‘Lekhak’, written by Balwant Gargi and directed by Neeraj Kant was presented here today in Natrang’s Sunday theatre series.
The play was well appreciated by the audience who were grossly involved in the performance which showcased the struggle of one writer in thinking the idea and then finding the serene ambience to covert that idea into a story.
In the play, a creative person is shown engaged in the process of creating and writing a play. He is living through a different kind of creative tension. Lot of things are happening, emerging and storming in his mind and is under utter stress. By the time he reaches to a situation of putting down something on paper, he is distracted by the visitors to him. The writer has tried to portray the fate of a creative person who is not being understood by the people living around him. For every one he is an idle person, all-time sitting restlessly.
Balwant Gargi, being a writer himself has beautifully depicted life of a creator, his aspirations and frustrations. The play showcases the struggle of a creative person, the effort and the amount of energy he puts in evolving a creative piece. Without realizing and acknowledging his creative tensions everyone visiting to him just load him with their own problems. In the absence of congenial environment, his creativity gets victimized. On being distracted and disturbed time and again, he cries that he has lost everything, people around him have taken away everything from him. People around him claim that no one took anything from him then why he is crying in frustration. But ironically no one understands that the time is the wealth of a creative person. He loses every creative thought whenever he is disturbed and distracted.
Rahul Singh has been highly successful in portraying inner turmoil of a writer ,who lives in a disturbed situation. The visitors to the writer included Vikram Sharma (Manohar Lal), Abhinav Vimarsh (Ram Bharose), Anita Dhar (Champa), Antriksh Jandial (Purshotam), Rohit Verma and Ashwani Bali (Eunuchs). The lights were designed by Anil Tickoo and executed by Ankush Lakhnotra. Mohd. Yaseen coordinated the show and the presentations were done by Sakshi Prakash.
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