Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, June 26: Samooh Theatre celebrated its foundation day with the performance of famous play ‘Chitta Singh’ a Dogri adaptation of Fritz Karnathy’s Hungarian play “The Refund” adapted and directed by Ravinder Sharma, here at K L Saigal Hall, Cultural Academy Jammu.
The play ‘Chitta Singh’ reflects the grievances of one exceptional student who after spending eighteen struggling years in search of suitable job realizes that the so called education has not stood him any good.
He returns to his school and demands refund of the school fee. The principal baffled by this unprecedented demand calls an emergency meeting of the teachers who decide to give a mock test to the student with the condition that only if he fails in the test the fee will be refunded. Personifying the intellectual atrophy of the teaching community who in order to justify their morbid system, ask very silly questions and treat the deliberately given stupid answers by the student as correct with equally convoluted logic thus declaring students as having passed the test and succeeding to wriggle out of the situation. The play emerges as universal satire on the modern education.
On the occasion, Janak Khajuria, senior theatre and TV artist was the chief guest while Sardar Tajinder Singh and Kumar A Bharti, senior Theatre Director, were guests of honour.
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