A play ‘Kalaya Tasme Namah’ was performed here on Thursday at Raviindra Bhavan Auditorium leaving the audience with an unanswered question about superstitious beliefs and unknown intuitions.
With fine direction by Niti Shrivastava, the play was splendidly performed by the artists by Creative Art and Culture Development Society, Bhopal.
The play was performed on the first day of 28th Iftekhar Theatre Festival ‘Yaadien’.
The story revolved around the life of a fortune teller. He is a known and one of the trustworthy fortune tellers of the city.
Whatever he says never come out as a false statement. Suddenly this known and celebrated fortune teller leaves his skill and become aloof from his fortune telling. What situations made him to do so, was all about Kalaya Tasme Namah:
The play begins with introducing Vinayak Rao, the fortune teller being interviewed by a journalist. As the journalist began his series of questions, asked Rao why he gave up fortune telling, what was the reason behind this decisionIJ
Rao then takes the journalist in a flashback where this all began.
Rao has a family and his son is not-so-concerned about jyotish vidya. His son Madhukar once discloses that he loves a girl named Sushma.
On hearing this Rao then reads the kundalis and then Rao tells that after 11 months of marriage, Sushma will die.
One fine day, Rao’s friend comes to visit him with his mentally-ill daughter Shaku. She is an adult with an underdeveloped mind. Madhu then thought of an idea of marrying Shaku, she will then die and then Sushma and Madhu will get married.
Rao explains Madhu that this will be a murder. But Madhu was blinded in his own world of illusions.
Somehow the marriage happens, but there was something else the destiny restored for Madhu: Shaku didn’t die.
Rao tells the journalist that there is no gain in telling the future.
Rao quoting the fact that even lord Krishna says to believe in karma then one should do what is ordered for him by his lord and not try to change the destiny.
The play was much enjoyed by the theatre buffs.
The intense acting skills by the artists made the play worthwhile to watch.