The Bhopalites witnessed three wondrous plays in the memory of the greatest comedian of the world Charlie Chaplin. To pay homage to Chaplin, a theatre presentation was staged here on Friday at Bharat Bhavan leaving the audience mesmerised.
The event was a compilation of three plays, that included World’s Greatest Comedian Charlie Chaplin, Sentiment at Zindagi.com and Dhoop Chhaon Zindagi directed by Ashok Bulani and Kranti Swaha and Shanti Swaha directed by Alok Chatterjee.Notably, Charlie Chaplin was born on April 16, 1889, and died on December 25, 1977. The show evoked a great response by the thetare lovers of the city.Alok Chatterjee, gave a presentation on the life of Charlie Chaplin and a play Kranti Swaha and Shanti Swaha directed by Alok was staged on the occasion to pay tribute to the comedian.
Alok Chatterjee said, “The show was organised to pay tribute to Charlie Chaplin, all the three plays are of Comic Genre, and my presentation will elaborate on Charlie Chaplin’s struggles and achievements.” ‘Sentiments @zindagi.com’, directed by Ashok Bulani is based on the adaptation of Marathi story ‘Artificial Intelligence’ by Praveen Warde which highlights the struggle between the sentiments and career associated with youths.
It is story of six final year students of computer science. They are preparing for final paper and also very happy to get placement with good package. Suddenly one student get the message that his one classmate Rohit ‘s father met an accident and died. That student informs this to other five classmates except Rohit to think it will affect his exam badly. So others students make plan how to inform this to Rohit. They tell such situation to Rohit without taking the name of his father and ask that what he does if his father dies during his paper. Did he take exam or leave” the Rohit says ‘No, he doesn’t miss exam’. At the end of story, Rohit came to know the fact and cries but he says ‘I’ll take exam’.Dhoop Chhaoun Zindagi also dealt with the ups and downs of life that were presented in comic way.The plays left the audience mesmerised. The lighting design and extraordinary performances by the artists added much charm in the presentation.