Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Mar 8: Theatre group ‘Natrang’ here today staged Hindi play ‘Girgit’ directed by Neeraj Kant.
Based on Russian short Story by Anton Chekhov, the play proved to be a hard hitting satire on present socio-political system.
The play ‘Girgit’ revolves around a dog and a corrupt Police officer, who changes colours like a chameleon.
The stage action starts when a dog bites a pickpocket who approaches Police to help him to roundup owner of the dog.
A passerby hints that the dog belongs to a local minister as he saw a similar dog moving around his Bungalow. On this clue, the Police officer starts beating the pickpocket for teasing a respectable dog.
The officer claims that a dog of a minister cannot bite unless and until forced to do so. While he is beating the pickpocket, another man from the crowd observes that the local Minister cannot keep such dog, as he is known to have pointer-hunting dogs only.
On this, the dog is thrashed and search continues for his owner to enable the pickpocket claim compensation.
Beating of the dog continues until a servant of the minister appears on the scene. At first he refuses to recognize the dog but later on identifies him as minister’s brother’s dog who has visited from Delhi. Here the dog is escorted back the home with full official protocol.
Artists who performed in the play were Mihir Gujral, Aadesh Dhar, Kananpreet Kaur, Mohd. Yaseen, Vishal Sharma, Kushal Bhat, Kartik Kumar, Arjun Sharma, Lovish and Sheetal Sen.
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