A Bundeli play 'Panda Baba' was staged brilliantly at Madhya Pradesh State Tribal Museum. The play was performed under Abhinayan series here on Friday.
The play was directed by Ashish Shrivastava, Sagar. The artists on stage performed the play in Swang style of Bundelkhand.
The story of the play surrounds few young men kf the village. Among those are thugs Paltu and Panda Baba. There are some young men of a village, who are not married. These people harass the girls of the village, due to which the village girls and villagers are very upset.
So, seeing this all, Paltu makes an intention to rob everyone by joining with Panda Baba. Therefore, Panda Baba tells the youngsters that the future of all of them, and thier life partners, in the west, in your south and in your east in different directions. Listening to this, all the youths leave the village and go out in search of their own life partner.
Panda Baba does not stop at all, he also cheats and money and valuables from the village girls. After a while, when all the young people come to the village, they are ashamed to face each other, because they feel that none of them have not got married just because everyone else has done it.
It does not last all day long when all the young people face each other and when they know that no one has married. After this Paltu and Panda Baba's conspiracies open in front of everyone. Eventually, villagers Paltu and Panda beat Baba a lot and take them out of the village.
The play was wonderfully performed leaving the audience enthralled.