On the second day of the 8th Complete Theatre Festival, a Hindi play full of drama , suspense and twists and turns was staged here on Sunday. The play ‘Koi Samajh Na Paya’ was a solo act play held at Shaheed Bhawan Auditorium.
Written by a renowned theatre playwright of the city Rafi Shabbir, the play was performed by Dost Theatre Group, Bhopal. As this was the solo act play, the distinguished theatre artist and director Alok Chhatterjee gave a wondrous performance on stage leaving the audiences jammed to their seats throughout the play.
Writer of the play Rafi Shabbir gave a very simple treatment to the storyline of the play. With such treatment to the story, dialogues were easy for the artist to communicate with the audience and audiences were also able to connect with the story as well.
The story surrounds the life of a poor simple fisherman who everyday sits besides the lake to catch the fish and earn a better livelihood. The character of the fisherman played by Alok Chhatterjee was outstanding. This fisherman at the beginning of the play appears to be the most talkative person ever. Anybody who comes to the lake site, the fisherman talks to him or her unnecessarily.
He specially talks with the youngsters. At the middle of the play he seems to be the knowledgeable man who has almost all the information about the current happenings. He recites the greatest poets and authors at the lake site such as William Shakespeare and Faiz Ahmed Faiz.
People who pass by the lake site call him professor fakeology and with other names as well. But, nobody knows the tragedy behind the fisherman’s story. later in the play he discloses the suspense and the suspense was that years before his own son jumped into the lake from that particular spot and committed suicide and so he doesn’t want other youngsters to do the same because of any small reason.
The play was all about comedy, drama and suspense. The audience enjoyed the show as Alok used all his acting and theatre skills in this solo act which created a spell binding impact over the audience. Talking to The Pioneer Rafi said, “It was my dream to work with Alokji which somehow fulfilled with this play.”