Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Oct 8: Theatre group Natrang here today staged Balwant Thakur’s popular Dogri play ‘Gatt’ at Deewan-e-Aam in Mubarakh Mandi.
The play was based on Krishna Chander’s famous Urdu classic short story ‘Khadda’ and opens with a person falling into a ditch whose pleas to help him come out unanswered by one and all.
People like surveyors, young men, religious leaders, cops, political leader and a foreigner pass by him giving excuses and pleas for their inability to help him.
The unemployed youth are unable to find time out of their fixed schedule of hunting for girls. The ‘Sadhu’ showers blessings and prays for his peace in as and where condition. The cop lodges an FIR and asks him to report to the police station knowingly that he will never be able to come out of the ditch on his own.
The foreigner lady enquires about his choice between India and Pakistan.
The situation becomes more dramatic when a minister after a complaint from the public makes a round of the area and workers of public works department instead of taking out the man from the ditch put wooden planks over the ditch and create a stage for minister’s speech who lists his development revolution.
After public meeting, wooden planks are removed but no one pays any heed to the man in ditch.
Finally a man from the audience appears and appeals to everyone to render a helping hand to this common man who is still in ditch despite having celebrated decades of India’s independence.
Artists who performed in the play were Chirag Anand, Mahikshit Singh, Mohd. Yaseen, Brijesh Avtaar, Aadesh Dhar, Sanket Bhagat, Kushal Bhat, Kananpreet Kaur, Sumit Singh Bandaral, Vishal Sharma, Vansh Pandotra and Abhimanyu Choudhary.
The show was coordinated and conducted by Neeraj Kant.
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