Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, July 20: Balwant Thakur’s Dogri play ‘Gatte-ch-Maanu’ directed by Neeraj Kant was staged here today.
Based on Krishna Chander’s famous Urdu classic short story ‘Khadda’, the play is a hard hitting satire on the decay of human values. Balwant Thakur has adapted it in such a manner that the audience is put to a situation to feel it much closer to their surroundings and life sufferings.
The play shows a man falling into a ditch and his pleas for help remain unanswered by one and all. Different people pass by him giving him excuses for their inability to help him.
The situation becomes more dramatic when a Minister after a complaint from the public about the worsening of the road condition, makes a round of the area.
The workers of Public Works Department instead of taking out the man from the ditch put wooden planks over the ditch and create a stage for Minister’s public speech.
After public meeting, the wooden planks are removed but no one pays any heed to the fallen-man in the ditch.
Finally a man from the audience appears and appeals everyone to render a helping hand to this common man who is still in the ditch.
Artists who performed in the play were Neeraj Kant, Pawan Vema, Mohd. Yaseen, Kartik Kumar, Aadesh Dhar, Aryan Sharma, Kananpreet Kaur and Kushal Bhat, lights were designed and executed by Neeraj Kant and the presentations were done by Adaksh Bagal.
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