The struggle of maintaining the positivity of hope and trust was seen through the eyes of a draught stricken family in a Hindi plays ‘Rang Bajrang’. The play was staged here on Sunday at Antrang Auditorium, Bharat Bhavan.
The play was organized under Rangmandal wing of Bharat Bhavan in the series of guest theatrical events. The play was written and directed by a well known name in the field of entertainment, Dinesh Thakur. Thakur is renowned for his contribution in theatres and television industry. Rang Bajrang is an adaptation of Richard Nash's ‘The Rainmaker’ and was presented by Ank theatre group, Mumbai.
Somewhere along the Haryana-Rajasthan border, lives Chaudhari Deen Dayal's family and is living happily. But a draught has created glumness in the life of his daughter Nandini who is becoming overage for marriage. Her dark skin and sheer intelligence being the reason, Nandini has been rejected so many times for marriage that now she denies her dreams and is convinced nothing can raise her plain and sad future.
Her brother Mahipat is a very practical man, who has no dreams or hopes the younger brother is a dreamer. As Chaudhari struggles to keep his family and land together and deals with turmoils of daily life.
As the family struggles with unemployment, rejection and financial draught it seems all the hopes vanishing untill a stranger, Bajrangali enters their lives. Bajrangali is a man who claims to sell the rain.
While Chaudhari is ready to take the chance Nandini and Mahipat believes that the man is a criminal and fraudster whom the police inspector, Samar Singh is looking for. How the circumstances disclose the real identity of Bajrangali formed rest of the story.
The theatre watchers enjoyed the show whole heartedly. The play questions the ideas of being positive in life and the audiences got all their answers after watching the show. The performance of the artists maintained the interest of the audience and the characters were highly appreciated by the watchers. It was an enthralling performance.