Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Jan 19: Natrang staged ‘Uthal Puthal’, a play in Hindi based on a short story written by Anton Chekhov and directed by Neeraj Kant, here today under Natrang’s weekly Sunday Theatre Series.
The play revolves around a young girl ‘Malvika’, who lives as a paying-guest in the house of one Maya. She comes home from college one day to find the house in turmoil. When she walks into her room, she sees her mistress rummaging through her things. Maya leaves in hurry and another maid tells Malvika that a very expensive brooch was lost and the ever suspicious and arrogant lady Maya is searching and screening each and every one to find that. She has no regards for anyone’s honesty and all are thieves in her eyes. ‘Malvika’ is very disturbed that the land lady would look through her things, obviously assuming her a thief. She decides to leave the place. While she is packing, ‘Nikhil’, the master of the house and Maya’s husband, comes into her room and reveals that actually he stole the brooch as he was short of money and his dominating wife has captured all the possessions with her and turned him to be a beggar in his own house. This disturbs Malvika even more who stays with her decision to leave the home as there is no dignity in living at a place where there is no respect for your honesty and nothing else is more important than self respect and dignity for an honest person.
The artists included Mohd Yaseen, Sakshi Prakash, Juhi Singh, Kritika Bhau and Masood Qadir. Lights were designed and operated by Neeraj Kant. Ashwani Bali rendered the Music. Sajra Qadir did the presentations and the show was coordinated by Sumeet Sharma.
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