Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Nov 15: Theatre group ‘Natrang’ here today staged Hindi play ‘Balak’ directed by Neeraj Kant and based on Munshi Premchand’s classic story.
Speaking on the occasion, Natrang Director, Balwant Thakur said staging such classics is not easy.
The play opens with the writer slightly disturbed as his honest servant ‘Gangu’ wants to quit job and the writer being concerned about Gangu gives him another chance to think and also asks the reason for quitting. Gangu gives a strange reason that he wanted to marry a widow ‘Gomti’ who was married thrice but could not settle with any of her husband. She is believed to be a bad woman who is without any dignity but Gangu finds her innocent. Thinking that his marriage with Gomti may cause stigma on writer’s reputation also, Gangu wants to quit the job just to save his goodwill. He marries Gomti and starts living a happy life but for few months only as one day Gomti leaves him and goes to some unknown place. Everyone discusses that the lady had betrayed Gangu but he still held very high regards for her and considers her step for some of genuine problem or God’s will. He cherishes the days spent with her and one day he visits the writer happy as Gomti has returned. Actually she had gone to an unknown place to give birth to a baby after which Gangu on knowing this goes to her and accepted her with the child even though the baby was not his as his marriage was just six months old. He accepted the child as God’s gift.
The artists who performed in the play were Chirag Anand, Gopi Sharma, Sushant Singh Charak, Akash Wadhwan and Kushal Bhat. The lights were operated by Neeraj Kant and the sound was rendered by Aarti Devi. The show was coordinated by Mohd. Yaseen.
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