Inspired by a short tale, ‘The Emperor’s New Clothes’, a satirical play, ‘Ujbak Raja Teen Dacoit’, highlighting the ‘irregular system’ of our country, was staged at Shaheed Bhawan auditorium on Wednesday.The short tale is written by by Danish author Hans Christian Andersen. Although a prolific writer of plays, travelogues, novels, and poems, Andersen is best remembered for his fairy tales.
The play is saga of a vain and stupid king who cares about nothing except wearing and displaying clothes. He doesn’t know what’s going on in his state. Meanwhile, three dacoits meet to king after knowing that he needs international tailors to prepare his new dress. They introduce themselves as international tailors before king. They promise him that they will prepare magical suits which will be full of colours, attractive and invisible. It will not visible to foolish people. After hearing this, King impresses a lot by them and allows them to prepare.
Finally they report that the musical suit is finished and they mime dressing him. After wearing this new clothes , he goes to meet the other king who comes to meet in his state , After seeing him undress the second kings asked that “ Why didn’t you wear clothes.” The first king replies that its magical suit, only intelligent people can see it. At the end of play both kings came to know that the three made them fool and took lot of money on the name of magical suits.
It was part of weeklong cultural fest which is being organised by Cultural Akademi of Western Central Railway to mark its Silver Jubilee. Directed by Jogendra Shrivastva, scripted by Alakhnandan sinha , the play was beautifully presented by Cultural Akademi of Western Central Railway. live music were used used in it which added the charm in play and entertained the audience a lot.
Sudhir Jadhav as King, Jogendra Shrivastava , Rahul Chauhan and Satendra Pal as dacoits were in lead roles. Talking about the play, director Jogendra Shrivastava said, “ This third show of his production and is being staged after ten year of long gap. Most of the artists in this are performing first time on stage. It criticizes improper system of present scenario. “