On the second day of BV Karanth theatre festival 'Adaranjali', play Khamoshi Sili Sili was staged at Bharat Bhavan auditorium. The play was performed here on Sunday.
Directed by Suresh Sharma, the play was performed by Repertory of National School of Drama (NSD), New Delhi. The musical softly and gradually takes the audience on a journey that discovers the covert lives of people from the Kashmiri Pandit community, for some of whom a reverberating silence has become the best way to communicate sorrow.
This play is a translation of Fiddler on the Roof written by Joseph Stein. It is a musical that deals with the displacement of communities. The story is neatly bound to the Kashmiri situation in our country. Prithvi Nath loves his daughters, and goes against the traditional norms, allowing them to marry men of their choice. Shuhul, the third daughter chooses to marry a Muslim.
The play was beautifully performed. The audience were enthralled to watch the play as they were glued to their seats with wondrous performance of the artists. Talking about the play, director of the play said that going along with the central theme of the play, the contemporary situation of our society took the forefront. The final situation chosen is the plight of the Kashmiri Pandit community.
This choice is to support the script with a relevant social background which can be projected on a larger canvas, and can highlight the pain and problems of the people who have been displaced from their own land, he added.