A seven-day theatre festival —’Pappu Se Papa Tak’ began ith a light-hearted comedy play ‘Arey Shareef log’ at Ravindra Bhawan Auditorium here on Monday.
Written and directed by veteran Bollywood actor Ahmed Khan, Arey Shareef log was splendidly performed by the artists of Nazar Theatre Group, Bhopal. The theatre-goers of the city witnessed a hilarious drama that tells the story of different people and their viewpoints towards life.
The play narrates the story of how people can get attracted to beautiful things and get into trouble. Sharing the lives of happy-go-lucky people dealing with day to day life, the play introduces a twist.
A pretty and beautiful girl ‘Chanda’ enters their chaul that changes their lifestyle and the way to look at life.
Chanda creates a kind of chaos among the people living in the chaul. As the senior citizens Ram Kishan, Anokhe lal and Bihari lal gets attracted to Chanda, a young boy takes advantage of it and creates more havoc. later the secret discloses that Chanda would be getting married soon and with whom she is getting married, formed rest of the story.
While talking to The Pioneer, director of the play, Ahmed Khan said, “This play may relate the story of common men, as funny twists and turns happen in everyone’s life.
The incidents happened in the story are chocked out from our daily life and presented in a comic way.” He further said, “We are presenting the actual theatre plays, where people can enjoy theatres just like they enjoy cinema.”
Explaining further said, “Keeping this in mind we have picked up the scripts which a person can relate to his daily life and can enjoy them to the fullest.”
“Earlier we had staged this play in the city and a huge positive response by the audiences motivated us to organise a theatre festival on a huge level.”
Kiran Yadav as Chanda, Ahmed khan as Ram Kishan, Ashok Bulani as Anokhe lal and Uday Nivarkar as Master Bihari lal made the audiences enjoy the show. The spectators burst out laughing as the performance of the artists mesmerized them tremendously. Similar play would be staged on the second day of the festival as well.