A Hindi play Amjad, Major Aur Main was staged here on Tuesday at Shaheed Bhavan. The play was staged on the second day of Karunesh Theatre Festival being organised in the memory of a one of the distinguished theatre artist Chandrahas Tiwari.
Directed by Gopal Dubey, the play was presented by Bhoomika Theatre Group, Bhopal. The play is all about comedy, drama, love story, tragedy and a blend of various human relationships altogether. The story follows the one sided love story of a boy who was unable to express his love to girl he liked during his college days.
The boy grew old and has now become a member of the city library. He befriends a young boy Amjad who visits regularly at the library and both of them befriend the librarian.As the play starts, Amjad tell his library friends that he like a girl who come to the library everyday and just to have a look of her he also visits the library.
Amjad is unable to express his love to her. Soon, the old man revives his young days and confesses that he was in the similar situation years ago. The man narrates his story and goes in the flashback when the Bollywood blockbuster Muqaddar Ka Sikander was released. He relived his past days as he narrated history to his friends.
Amjad and the librarian decide to unite the love of the old man and years later, the old man was able to express his love to the girl he once loved and she has also grown old. The mixture of beautiful feelings and untold relationships formed the story of the play Amjad, Major or Main. The audiences enjoyed the show wholeheartedly. The audiences were spell-bounded by the performances of the artists. The rhythmical music and the soothing lighting effect added more zeal in the moods of the scenes.
While talking to The Pioneer, director of the play Gopal Dubey said, “This was the opening show of the play. All the actors who were involved in the drama and I thought of the concept and wrote the story. The combination of different experiences formed the play.”