Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Apr 2: Balwant Thakur’s popular Dogri play ‘Gatt’ was staged here today.
Based on Krishna Chander’s famous Urdu classic short story ‘Khadda’ the play is a hard hitting satire on the decay of human values.
The play ‘Gatt’ shows that one and all tend to shirk their own responsibilities and work and pass it on to others and indulge in high sloganeering, claiming to be the redeemers of the sufferings of masses.
This is symbolized by a person falling into a ditch who plea to help him to come out remained unanswered by one and all. Different people pass by him like surveyors, young men, religious, leaders, cops, political leader in power and a foreigner.
The situation becomes more dramatic when a minister after a complaint from the public about worsening condition of the road makes a round of the area.
The workers of the Public Works Department instead of taking out the man from the ditch put wooden planks over it and make a stage for minister’s public speech.
After the public meeting, wooden planks are removed but no one pays any heed to the fallen-man in the ditch.
Finally a man from the audience appears and appeals to everyone to render a helping hand to this common man who was still in the ditch despite having celebrated 75 years of India’s Independence.
Natrang actors who acted in the play were Neeraj Kant, Gopi Sharma, Mohd. Yaseen, Brijesh Avtaar Sharma, Sumit Bandaral, Kushal Bhat, Kananpreet Kaur, Amit Brahmi, Vishal Sharma, Sheryaar Salaria and Abhimanyu Choudhary. The show was coordinated by Mahikshit Singh.
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