Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, May 21: Balwant Thakur’s popular Dogri play ‘Gatt’ was staged here today at the back lawns of Sher-i-Kashmir International Convention Centre (SKICC).
Based on Krishna Chander’s famous Urdu classic short story ‘Khadda’, the play is a hard hitting satire on the decay of human values.
Play ‘Gatt’ shows that one and all tend to shirk their own responsibilities and work and pass it on to others. Instead they indulge in high sloganeering, claiming to be the redeemers of the suffering masses.
This is symbolized by a person falling into a ditch whose pleas to help him come out 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 person in distress is given different excuses and pleas for their inability in extending help to him.
Finally a man from the audience appears and appeals everyone to render a helping hand to this common man who is still in the ditch despite having celebrated 75 years of India’s Independence.
Natrang actors who acted in the play were Neeraj Kant, Shivam Singh, Mohd. Yaseen, Brijesh Avtaar Sharma, Aadesh Dhar, Kushal Bhat, Meenakshi Bhagat, Mihir Gujral, Mahikshit Singh, Vishal Sharma and Sheryaar Salaria.
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