Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Apr 5: Samooh Theatre staged Rajneesh Gupta’s play ‘Khol Do’ during 4th National Urdu Drama Festival at Mysore Auditorium, Matunga, Mumbai. The play, based on a short story by Sadat Hassan Mantoo, was directed by J R Sagar.
The play starts with the painful scene of Sirajudin and Sakina. Both were forced to go to Pakistan due to the communal riots. Sakina lost her mother in those riots and was pulled by her father to go with him to Pakistan. In the absence of her father, some unidentified persons took Sakina away from him.
In the end, when Sirajudin visits hospital in search of his daughter, he sees two men carrying a girl on statures. Suddenly Sirajudin cries saying doctor that she was his daughter. Doctor sees to him with pity and requests him to open the window. Sakina only hears the word open and at once cries with fear and opens her shalwar.
Sirajudin comes to Sakina and weeps before her. Sakina tells everything to her father what happened to her in Amritsar and Pakistan. Sirajudin at once puts dupatta of Sakina on her naked legs and comes in front of stage requesting the audience not to look at his daughter as she is not only his daughter but the daughter of whole country either it is India or Pakistan.
The artists who gave spellbounded performance were Sapna Soni, Santosh Sangra, Luxmi Tagotra, Rajesh Raina, Ajay Paul Singh, Aaditya Bhanu, Tarun Sharma, Sudesh Kumar and Sunil Kumar. Music was beautifully composed by Surinder Manhas while make up was done by Shammi Dhameer.
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