Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Aug 4: Natrang today staged a new play “Naya Janam” based on story of Sarabjeet during its Sunday Theatre Series.
The play was written by Gursharan Singh and directed by Neeraj Kant. The theme of the play was very critical and vulnerable and very intelligently weaved by the playwright.
In the play “Naya Janam” the title is used as a metaphor which signifies the rebirth of an ideology which is full of discrimination and hatred. The play opens in a village where “Shibu” has been living his entire life doing the petty errand tasks of the people of upper caste as he belonged to the lower caste. But his son “Baldev”, who is educated and is doing a good job, wants his father to raise his standard and start living with dignity. But ‘Shibu’ opposes as he thinks that all of his patrons treat him as friend and brother as he does. To make ‘Shibu’ realize the reality, ‘Baldev’ organizes the 50th birthday celebrations of ‘Shibu’ and asks him to invite all of his friends to the party, innocent ‘Shibu’ thinks that all of his patrons will gladly come to his celebration as he has always been a part of their happiness, but to his dismay, no one comes to his home as they do not think him to be equal. This discrimination shakes him to the core and he decides to break all the contacts and relations with so called high-class and high-caste people and decides that today is his rebirth (Naya Janam).
The artists who presented the play Uplaksh Singh Kotwal as ‘Shibu’, Sajra Qadir as ‘Mejjo’, Ashwani Bali as ‘Baldev’, Sushil Raina as ‘Pandit’ and Mohammad Yaseen as ‘Sarpanch’. The lights were operated by Neeraj Kant and music was scored by Mohit Sharma. Sumeet Sharma coordinated the show and also did the presentation.
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