A Hindi play Bhook Aag Hai was staged here on Thursday at Antrang Hall, Bharat Bhavan. The play was staged as a part of a four-day theatre festival organised in the memory of a young renowned director Chandrahas Tiwari.
Directed by a noted theatre director KG Trivedi based on the story written by Krishna Balev Vaid. The theatre-goers of the city enjoyed the show with the mesmerising performance by the artists of Trikarshi Theatre Group, Bhopal.
The play surrounds the curiosity of a teenage girl, who has been asked to write an essay on ‘hunger’. Being from a rich family, the girl is unable to understand what actually the ‘Bhook’ is.
The family brings home a set of beggars, who will give their darling daughter different view points for the essay on hunger. The curious child asks the beggar girl to describe hunger. The beggar girl tries mime, idiom, and acting, but cannot convey what hunger is.
The song of the beggars about hunger being a fire that will destroy the world is the song that the capitalist parents used to sing in their youth. As a result, no one is able to define the hunger.
While highlighting on the storyline of the play director KG Trivedi told The Pioneer, “It is a very simple satire script. The script undoubtedly lessens the gap between the audiences and the theatre plays, as the audiences could relate their stories with the story of the play.”
Elaborating further, he said, “Huger has different meanings for each individual. Some are hungry for food, some are hungry for love, and some are hungry for money and so on. This play shows that all.”
The play is rift between those who cannot understand hunger and those who cannot describe it.
He further said that the audiences would also think upon the fact that what is hunger and this is the essence of the play. The satire created in the play left the audiences whirled in the strokes of laughter.