A folk play ‘Chakravyuh’ in the Yakshagana style of Karnataka was presented on Madhya Pradesh State Tribal Museum YouTube Channel on Friday.
The folk play was featured under the direction of Sanvij Swarna, Karnataka.
The play centers around the revenge that fuelled the fight between Kauravas and Pandavas in Mahabharat. It depicted the revenge harboured by Dronacharya for being let down by friend king Drupad, revenge in the heart of Karna for being slighted as Sutaputra by Draupadi at her swayamvar, and also revenge in the heart of Draupadi when she has to undergo ‘Cheer Haran’ after being lost by the Pandavas in the game of dice.
It is the determination of many such slighted hearts nursing revenge that eventually results in the Mahabharat. Through eight scenes, the ballet presented a compact story of Abhimanyu, how the secret of breaching a Chakravyuh is revealed to him while he was in his mother’s womb, how he succeeds in replicating it as a young lad in the Mahabharat and eventually his death at the hands of the senior warriors fighting the war.
The play focuses on Veer Abhimanyu in which Abhimanyu, son of Arjun and Subhadra, is a wonderful character in the epic Mahabharata. Abhimanyu was a superior archer like Arjuna who is like Yudhishthira in policy, similar to Bhima in karma and like Nakula and Sahadeva in humility.