Excelsior Correspondent
REASI, Mar 15: On the third day of ongoing Drama Festival 2018-19, being organized by J&K Academy of Art, Culture and languages, a Hindi comedy play “Chor Chor Museray Bahi” was presented today by Sangam Theatre Group Reasi at NHPC Auditorium Jyotipuram (Reasi).
The play was written by Rajnesh Gupta and directed by M Akram Khan, assisted by Dharminder Rathore. Suchit Tyagi, Sr. Commandant CISF Jyotipuram was the chief guest while Sushma Tyagi, eminent Theatre artist from Delhi was the special guest on the occasion.
“Chor Chor Museray Bhai” is a comic play. There are five main characters. Ashraf is the owner of a house. Nusrat is his wife and she belongs to a well reputed family. Sheku is the servant of Ashraf. He is bachelor and belongs to a poor family. Fatima is Ashraf’s sister. She is 40 years old and married. Kaley Khan is married old man and all his children are also married. He is a rich man and wants to get married again.
Ashraf is depicted as a lazy person. He is unhappy and looks forward to earn money by some on the often ways. He wants to promote his servant to become singer through whom he wants to earn money. This makes his wife sad. At that time Fatima comes crying as the marriage bureau had ditched her. They had taken money from her but didn’t help in return. From this incident, Ashraf got an idea of a marriage bureau to cheat people and make money. On the other hand Shekhu also thinks that he can befool Fatima on the name of marriage.
Ashraf opens a marriage bureau where Kaley Khan comes and spends a lot of money. Shekhu impersonates as a young bachelor Wasim and befools Fatima who in turn is trying to befool Wasim by pretending to be a young beautiful girl. Wasim makes a lot of money by befooling Fatima. In the end Ashraf’s wife reveals all the truth. Kaley Khan gets married to Fatima. Shekhu alias Wasim is caught by the police and arrested.
The artist who acted in the play included Zail Singh as Ashraf, Gopal Krishan as Shekhu & Wasim, Monika Kumari as Nusrat, Saima Akhtar as Fatima, Dharminder Rathore as Kaley Khan and Rakesh Kumar as Police Inspector.