Two Hindi short plays Deputy Collectory and Zindagi aur Jonk was staged here on Friday at Antrang Hall, Bharat Bhavan.
Directed by a noted theatre director of the city Bansi Kaul, the stories were scripted in a form of plays by Rajesh Joshi. Further, the plays were adapted from two short stories written by a distinguished Hindi writer Amarkant. The play was splendidly performed by the artists of Rang Vidushak Theatre Group, Bhopal.
Both plays are based on realistic highlighting the desires of middle class family from their children especially son and how a person did struggle to survive and want to live life at any cost.
The programme began with play Deputy Collectory that tells the saga of a middle class family. A character Shakaldeep Babu who is the chief family and has only son named Narayan called him ‘Babuaa’. He and his wife Zamuna want that his son sit in exam of deputy collector and pass it. They began to keep a lot of desires from him which affects their family life.
Narayan appears in exam three times but unable to clear. At last play ends with the hope of their desires which is not fulfilled. The interesting thing of this play is Narayan doesn’t come on stage. Sanjay Shrivastava as Shakaldeep Babu and NitiShrivastava as Jamuna were in lead roles.
Another play Zindagi aur Jonk is one of the famous story of Amarkant in which criticized on intellectual people of our societies who is educated but only for saying , but have no humanity. It is a saga of character ‘Rajua’ who belongs to poor family. He come city in the search of job.
He got small job here but city people exploit and tortured him a lot. But still he wants to live life despite of bearing all pain, given by people who belong to upper class family. This whole play narrated by a narrator and his wife.
Shades and colours of plays were created by light beautifully. Beams light and moods light were used in both plays. The dialects of UP were used in the dialogues.
Director Bansi Kaul said “Both are realistic story which tells the condition of middle class family. I personally feel after reading these stores that the nature of human and animals are same, both want to survive at any cost.”
The audiences were spell-bounded with the wonderful performance of the artists. The artists gave vibrancy to the roles that they played with a mixture of compassion and tenderness leaving the audience mesmerised.