Excelsior Correspondent
REASI, Jan 3: Dogri play “Maha Balidaan” written by SV Sagar and directed by Sahil Abrol was staged by Triple A Performing Arts at Salal, here today.
On the occasion, BS Sharma, president STGR was the chief guest, whereas Anil Kumar Sharma was the guest of honour and Pritam Singh, Sarpanch presided over the function.
The play was prepared under the financial assistance by J&K Academy of Art, Culture and Languages.
“Maha Balidaan” is a famous folk story of village Chamba in Himachal Pradesh. The villagers lived happily in the regime of their King Rana who had a son, daughter-in-law and a grand son. He (King Rana) loved his people like his own family. Suddenly due to some natural calamities drought hit this part of region and people used to get water for their families and cattle from the nearby village. Water has to be divided between the locals and the royals. But one day that source of water also dried up. Villagers and cattle started dying due to this natural calamity.
One day Rana saw a dream in which his Kul Devi ordered him to sacrifice animal or someone from the village, but Rana refused. Then Kul Devi again ordered him to sacrifice someone from his own family and Rana narrated the whole story to her daughter-in-law and requested her to save his only son and grand son by sacrificing her own life. When she was sacrificed, sudden thunder storm hit the region and the region got a heavy raining which made river in the centre of the village.
Rana thought that he had done a great mistake by sacrificing his daughter-in-law because as he loved his only son and grandson, her parents also love her.
Although Rana becomes a Great King for the common people but in his own eyes, he was a selfish.
The artist who took part in the performance were Vipul, Surbhi, Rekha, Chandani, Sanjana, Shilpa, Shivani, Samriti, Sangeeta, Vishali, Tammanna, Aamir, Asha, Renu, Siddharth, Poonam, Pallavi, Saurav, Suresh, Akhil, Karan, Ajeet, Abhishek, Atul, Anam, Ajay, Jagdeep, Sonali, Simmi, Neha and Shakti.
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