Bundeli play ‘Thug Ka Swang’ was staged at Madhya Pradesh State Tribal Museum here on Friday. The play was performed under the weekly presentations of dramas ‘Abhinayan’.
Directed by Vishwanath Patel the play was a Bundeli Swang style play. There is a house of thugs in the mockery, who make their living by fooling innocent people.
Both the boys make their prey on the road and cheat with their own father. One day, they makes a person fool by purchasing a bull for a cheap price, but what these two boys did not know was the person they had looted if Swang Thug i.e. a theif himself.
On the second day he robs both the boys disguise as a woman and he takes four times the price of his bull. On the other hand, Pandit plans to have lunch at his disciples' house. But he face such foolish students that Pandit does not have the luck to eat the food nor gets his fees, but he is beaten upside down.
The presented play was a comedy drama, in which the exploits of the thugs was shown. The history of thugs in the country has been going on since ancient times, thugs often used to be found in a single way or a deserted place. But today the thugs are surrounded by us and we do not even know how we became victims of thugs. Thugs are not creatures coming from another world, but there are some people among us. Those who make unemployment their business.
The comedy drama was full of folk music, whose language was Bundeli. The duration of this presentation was approximately 50 minutes.