On the third day of the Tagore Dance Drama Festival, ‘Rabindra Utsav 2014,’ on Friday, a Hindi play, Drishtidaan, was performed.The play was staged here at Antrang Hall, Bharat Bhavan as a tribute to Rabindranath Tagore on his 154th birth anniversary, for his outstanding work in the field of literature.
The play is an adaptation of a short story written by Rabindranath Tagore with the similar name. It was staged by the artists of Ravindra Amateur Natya Group and was directed by Rajesh Bhadoria.While talking to The Pioneer, director of the play, Rajesh Bhadoria, said, “This is our eighth presentation of this particular play. Earlier also we have staged this play in the city and have received great response by the audiences.” He further said that it is always a pleasure to stage Rabindranath Tagore’s spectacular creations.
Appreciating Rabindranath Tagore’s work, he said that his writings always influence the readers and leave a mark in thoughts that can never be deleted. His writings are powerful and a social message is always attached which forces the person to think and re-think.Together, it is like an extravagance to perform his stories or poems of sangeet, he added.
The story of the play surrounds the story of an aspiring doctor, who is studying MBBS and gets married. After the marriage his wife remains ill and as he was studying MBBS, he was treating his wife as a doctor. As a consequence, she loses her vision. After a while, he was attracted towards another woman. The doctor’s blind wife is unaware of the extra-marital affair of her husband. At a moment, the doctor realises that his wife is so loving, caring and innocent and he is being unfair to her. As he realises his mistake, the tragedies and the conflicts of guilt he faces in life rolls out in the rest of the story.
The audiences enjoyed the show wholeheartedly as the play had drama, comedy and gave a social message as well. The audiences were spell-bound by the performances of the artists. The rhythmical traditional music and the soothing lighting effect added more empathy to the moods of the scenes.