Jaishankar Prasad's masterpiece ‘Kamayani’ was presented beautifully on stage at Ravindra Bhavan auditorium here on Sunday. The play was held under Gamak series.
The play was performed by the artists of Ravani Sansthan, Varanasi. It was directed by Vyomesh Shukla.
The story of 'Kamayani' begins with the Holocaust. Manu, the only man left after the flood, is sitting on a peak in the Himalayas watching the destruction with sad eyes. That is when the first lady of the world, Shraddha, arrives there. She encourages desperate Manu for new life and karma.
The two together make new ones. Falling in the direction of the Asura priests, instead of creating manu, the focus of manu is on the instincts of hunting, sacrifice, sacrifice and sura. After this, Manu meets another woman, Ida, the representative of the intellect, and together they develop a new Saraswat region through their work force.
The subjects, agriculture and the state, everything, are flourishing under the leadership of Manu and Eda, but due to pride he behaves like a suzerain and tries to get Eda as well.
On the other hand, Shraddha and Manu's son Manav has grown up. With his mother, he has gone to find the father. At one place, injured, unconscious father Manu is found.
Manu still wants to flee, Eda gets ready to take over the responsibility of son and governance and Manu goes to austerity towards the Himalayas with reverence.
The play was beautifully performed leaving the audience mesmerised.
Shukla started writing in the year 2004, besides poems, did the work of critical writing and some of the essays were translated by you in Hindi. He has written some essays focused on theatrical and music. He has received the Ankur Mishra Smriti Award for poems in the year 2008 and Bharat Bhushan Aggarwal Smriti Award for poems in the year 2009. According to a survey conducted by the English daily 'The Indian Express', you are among the ten best writers in the country.
He has a special interest in Rangkarma, and successfully directed many plays on various reputed forums in the country.