Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, July 13: Hindi satire, “Sabse Bada Aadmi”, was staged here today by Natrang at its Studio Theatre under regular weekly theatre show Sunday Theatre.
The play has been written by Bhagwati Charan Verma and was directed by Neeraj Kant.
The play opens at a tea shop where the contemporary politics is being discussed. Such kinds of tea shops are very common and popular these days. People hailing from different socio-economic and cultural backgrounds gather there to putforth their ideologies over tea.
Few of them are the firm believers of great political thinkers and intellectuals. Where one person has a firm view that ‘Napoleon’ was the strongest the other person contradicts that it was ‘Shelly’ who was much above the others. Suddenly they both are contradicted by another person for whom the only biggest person in the world was ‘Mahatma Gandhi’. But yet another person was the staunch follower of ‘Lenin’ who rejects the supremacy of anyone but just his hero. Their debate soon takes the shape of the altercation, but a new person diffuses the situation. He praises all the discussed legends differently without offending the critics. Within no time all started swinging towards him and tactfully managed to lower all voices and opinions. At last he announces that indeed he is the biggest man of the world which all of them will agree once he leaves. Everyone mocks at him for his self praise and he leaves unnoticed but to the surprise of all, that person was a crook who had cut the pockets of all and made them look stupid in their own eyes.
The artists who performed were Mohammad Yaseen, Ashwani Bali, Rajan Thakyal, Mahikshit Singh Langeh, Syed Mudassar Ali Shah, Pankaj Verma, Susheel Raina and Sachin Saini. The lights were designed and executed by Neeraj Kant and the music was operated by Varun Sharma. The show was coordinated by Sumeet Sharma.
Natrang Director Balwant Thakur informed that Natrang is staging ‘Roshomon’ based on a Japanese classic directed by Aarushi Thakur at Amar Mahal on Saturday (July 19) and Charles Dicken’s Christmas Carol’s Hindustani Adaptation ‘Party To Banti Hai’ directed by Sumeet Sharma on Sunday (July 20) at the auditorium of Women College Parade.
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