The play ‘Natakwala-Hum Toh Aese Hi Hain’ was performed on Facebook live, marking the fourth day of the Online Theatre Festival on Saturday.
The play is directed by Manish Joshi. It showcases the life of an artist, the ups and downs and struggle of the artist.
The play Natakwala is a story of a theatre artist who is very much dedicated and honest for his art. He describes how he joined theatre and how he is surviving in this field although he has many pressures from society and his family too.
Society doesn’t think theatre is a career to pursue. He is in the mood of acting every time. In his subconscious there are lots of plays and lots of speeches. He is so much involved in theatre and in his real life he inspires with interesting theatre characters and tries to act like them. The play also describes works of Safdar Hashmi, Pash and Habib Tanveer.
Besides his theatre career the main character of this play is a puppeteer too and his room is full of puppets. He thinks that these puppets are his only friends. Only these puppets can understand his feelings. He shares everything of his life with his puppets. One day he gets very frustrated after a long struggle period and tries to commit suicide. At the moment he is trying to die all the puppets in his room, shouts at him and tells him that he is not killing himself but he is killing an art.
One of his favorite puppets asks him to answer me a simple question before you die. Who will play me after your death? The main character of the play turns positive and promises him that he will not die but he will now try to find out a reason to live his life.
The play gives a message that an artist never dies but an art and talent dies, when an artist takes these types of steps.