Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, May 21: ‘Do Kalakaar’, a play in Hindi, written by Bhagwati Charan Verma and directed by Neeraj Kant was staged here today at Natrang Studio in its weekly Sunday Theatre series.
In the play, ‘Churamani’ and ‘Martand’ are two friends. Both are artists, one poet and another painter. They had once aspired to rule the Bollywood with their respective creative strengths. The poet had dreamt of becoming the top Hindi film lyricist and the painter had set a goal for himself to become the most sought after art director of the tinsel town.
However, destiny lands them in a situation where both are forced to use their creative energies in creating situations and cooking stories just to escape the harassment of their landlord who has not been paid the rentals of a dingy room for the last six months. The playwright has beautifully portrayed the tragic fate of the creative people who are expected to create magic and electrifying artistic experience through their unlimited creative energies but are shown wasting their creativity just to ensure survival.
The play opens at a situation where both the poet and the painter have locked themselves in a room which is being visited by the landlord to collect the rent from them. As the landlord forcefully makes his entry, both take shelter of their creative mind and start cooking highly logical excuses to impress the landlord so that he allows them to continue till they are able to realize their unfulfilled dreams.
Both sell him the dreams to extent that the room rented out to them will once become a museum which once hosted the great genius of the world of poetry and painting. Finding the distance beyond measurement between their dreams and the reality, the landlord refuses to buy their arguments and throws them out of the room to face further rejection and dejection of the society. Both the poet and the painter get this realization at this point of the time that this world is not meant for creative people.
Bhrigu Sharma as ‘Churamani’, Sushant Singh Charak as ‘Martand’, Kushal Bhat as ‘Bulaki Dass’, Shivam Bhat as ‘Ram Nath’ and Sagar Gupta as ‘Parmanand’ performed their roles very well. The lights of the play were executed by Mohd Yaseen whereas the sound was rendered by Kananpreet Kaur.
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