Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Nov 14: J&K Excise Department in collaboration with Natrang here today staged two shows of Balwant Thakur’s Hindi play ‘Jaal’ under the direction of Neeraj Kant at Youth Services and Sports Centre, Nagrota and Village Parwah in Marh.
The play ‘Jaal’ innovatively showcases how drug-menace ruins generations.
Pankaj Kumar Sharma, Excise Commissioner was chief guest on the occasion. Prominent amongst those who graced the occasion were Sukriti Sharma, Deputy Excise Commissioner Accounts Jammu, Dr. Anil Chandan, ETO North Jammu, Sarpanch and Panches of Panchayat Parwah and others.
The play was not based on one story-line but as an experiment Balwant Thakur has woven multiple stories in one theme focusing drug menace.
In a sequence a young boy is shown struggling for a good company after passing school and making entry to the college. He is isolated for not being the consumer of various intoxicants. All those around him treat him like a child and to prove that he has grown-up as a young man now, he finds easiest way by consuming a variety of intoxicants.
In another sequence a rural inhabitation particularly the men-folk is shown drowned in the menace of alcohol. All the miseries of the village like poverty, domestic violence are due to heavy consumption of alcohol by the villagers there. Daily routine of a villager is also shown who consumes whole of his daily earnings in alcohol.
The play unfolds a series of incidents where people under the influence of drugs, alcohol and other intoxicants create hell for themselves as well as for others.
Through this play Balwant Thakur has tried to make an appeal to save mankind from narcotic addiction.
Actors who performed in the play were Neeraj Kant, Aadesh Dhar, Kananpreet Kour, Vishal Sharma, Abhimanyu Choudhary, Sanket Bhagat, Kushal Bhat, Sumit Bandaral and Mohd. Yaseen.
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