Lalit Gupta
JAMMU, Mar 17: Staged on the third day of the ongoing Festival of Plays 2020-2021, the Hindi play ‘Mujrim Mein Nahi Par Mein Hi Hoon’, struck an an immediate chord with the audience for its topical relevance and realistic presentation, at the Abhinav Theatre, here today.
Vomedh Rangmanch’s presentation, directed by Rohit Bhat and written by Rakesh Roshan Bhat, deals with the current issue of the ambitious parents who first, educate their children for such professions which take their loved ones to distant cities for employment and thus leaving them to suffer from concomitant realties of the empty nest syndrome.
The play revolves around a widow’s son Vinod Kumar. His uneducated mother works as a maid to educate him. Vinod leaves for green pastures to earn money, works hard; buys his mother a house and provides modern facilities. Visiting her only on festive occasions, he is unable to take care of the ailing and lonely mother. One day, he is informed by the police that his mother has passed away. When he goes to claim the body, the police inspector accuses Vinod of the death of his mother.
Vinod, first negates the charges of neglect vehemently but starts suffering from the guilt that in fact he only was the real culprit who had neglected his old and lonely mother. The petition filed by him in the court pleading guilty of his mother’s death is treated humanely by the learned Judge who helps Vinod Kumar to get free of his guilt feeling.
The play, a testimony of the playwright’s writing craft and maturity to portray a socially relevant theme to stimulate thought and discussion on the part of the audience, came out as a well designed realistic production.
The well-prepared actors moving with flow delivered their lines with feelings. The use of the light design in the court scene, Vinod’s lamentations about the loss of his mother, the lawyer’s engaging arguments for rejection of the petition, effectively enhanced the artistic import of presentation.
Among those who performed in the play include Sunny Majoo as Vinod, King.C. Bharti as Judge, Rahul as an advocate, Himangi Moza as Unnati, Rishab Bambroo as Constable Sharma, Suman Bhat as Sangeeta, Rahul Shivam Koul as Inspector Gupta, Dr Ramesh Nirrash as an old Kashmiri Pandit. Costumes by Bharati Koul, music arranged by Rohit Bhat and makeup by Sunny Mujoo, and set and property by Minakshi Rakesh Bhat.
Tomorrow, Rabindranath Tagore’s story Kabuliwala will be staged by Viraj Kala Kendra.
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