What an artiste goes through before presenting himself on the stage was showcased in a Hindi play ‘Kalkothri’.
Staged at Shaheed Bhavan here on Thursday, the play was performed on the first day of the 'Srijan Utsav-9'. The two day event is being organized by Young Theatre group, Bhopal for last eight years.
Scripted by Swadesh Deepak and directed Sarfaraz Hassan the play which depicts the personal life of theatre actors and his relation to his wife, parents and friends. It also talks about many more issues especially the corruption in culture.
The play begins with last scene of play 'Manji' of young theatre group. The rehearse part of young theatre group has been shown in second scene. Here it indicates that theatre artists never sit empty, they use to do and think something.
The third scene of play revolves around the life of young theatre artist Rajat. He is very successful and well-known theatre actor and earns lot of name and fame by his acting. After influencing from his acting, his fan Meena proposes him. He accepts her proposal and gets marry. Many turns and twists come in their marriage. A huge argument occurs between Meena and Rajat for permanent job. Rajat doesn't want to do job but finally go for interview.
In next scene shown a 70-year-old writer Naveen who has written 10 plays but still didn't stage because he has no approach. He wants to do play which is based on his son who has died. In beginning team don't ready to act due long speeches but finally ready. And the play ends with the beginning scene of this play.
The play was beautifully presented by young artists of young theatre group. The fusion of opera and Persian theatre style were also used. Sarfaraz said, "It's experimental play and first show of this play. It took one an and half years to complete and its script appealed me so much that I read it at least 20 times. It is very challenging for me because mostly young artist are performing and they did lot for hard work for this."