A comedy Hindi play ‘Gadbad Bhari- Nar Ya Nari’ was staged at Madhya Pradesh State Tribal Museum on Friday.
Directed by Dwarika Dahiya, the play is adapted from a Sanskrit play called ‘Bhagavajjukeeyam’.
The play depicts the misfits in the society and dealt with the theme which is relevant for all times.
The story is about the transmigration of souls, as practiced by a Buddhist monk. This is done to substantiate the process of ‘Parakaya Pravesha’ of the process of the soul entering another’s body.
The characters that play on stage includes a Jester, a farce, a physician who is ignorant of the art of medicine, the god of death Yamadoota who cannot identify whose life has to take away and a Yogi who finds it difficult to re-renter his body after transmigration into the body of a courtesan Vasantsena.
The play began with introducing two characters Shandilya and his guru Parivrajak. Both of them are walking in the garden are taking pleasure of the beautiful day.
At that time Vasantsena enters with her friend Madhukrika and her maid Parabhritika to meet her lover Rammilak. Suddenly Yamadoota take away the soul of Vasantsena and Shandilya pleads his guru to bring Vasantsena back to life.
To convince his disciple the monk makes his own soul enters the body of the courtesan.
She gets up and starts behaving like a holy man. The confusion in the story began when Yamadoota re-appears with the soul of Vasantsena and mistakenly slips her soul in the body of the monk.
The result is hilarious as Yamadhoota gets confused whose soul is to be taken away.
The play was much enjoyed by the theatre lovers as they burst out laughing with each comic situation on
stage.