Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Oct 20: Samooh Theatre’s team led by Director Ravinder Sharma left today to participate in 6th National Theatre Festival at Rabhindra Bhawan, Guwahati, Assam. The team will perform Rabindernath Tagore’s world famous play “Dak Ghar” in Dogri, adaptation done by Dr Sudhir Mahajan.
The play is about a small boy who is chronically ill. On account of his sickness, the boy is confined to his bed, and he sits by his window, watching life go by without him. Only by dying is the boy finally set free. In this manner, the play is primarily a metaphor for spiritual freedom, for death as a beginning rather than an ending. The play also presents a social commentary on class structure through the servants who surround the boy during his illness.
Unlike other plays of RN Tagore, the Dak Ghar contains two parallel flights–the naturalistic and symbolical. The human and spiritual the first may be interpreted as desire of the mind for material things and the second may be the desire of soul and fulfillment of these desire are symbolized by the Amal’s death. This is the first of its kind play in the Indian Drama history having children and adult with the blend of mind and spirit. The beauty of this play is its relevance and significance both for children and the adult as well.
The team includes Neeraj Sethi, Sandeep Manhas, Ravinder Sharma, Hempreet Kour, Samdhish, Aditya Pandita, Devanshu Raina, Sugandha Khera, Kartavya Jamwal, Akshit Sethi, Abhinandan, Yogeshwar Singh Jamwal, Chetan Charak, Sandeep Thakur, Barkha Thakur and Yeshvinder Bali.
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