Excelsior Correspondent
MANSAR, Apr 14: Balwant Thakur’s hard hitting Hindi play ‘Jaal’ was staged here today under the direction of Neeraj Kant.
At the very outset Natrang Director, Balwant Thakur said that menace of drugs amongst the youth is all set to take its toll and it becomes the responsibility of every one to come forward and fight out this growing menace and Natrang being a responsible cultural institution has volunteered by taking this message to every nook and corner of the region through the effective use of theatre.
The play ‘Jaal’ was not based on any one story-line but as an experiment Balwant Thakur has woven multiple stories in one theme focusing the spread of drug menace.
In a sequence a young boy is shown struggling for a good company after his passing of school and entry in the college.
He is isolated for not being the consumer of intoxications. All around him treat him like a child and to prove that he has grown-up as a young man now, he finds the easiest way by consuming a variety of intoxications.
In another sequence a rural inhabitation particularly the men-folk are shown drowned in the menace of alcohol. In a sequence the daily routine of a villager is shown who consumes the whole of his daily earnings in alcohol.
Being drunk completely he loses his way home and a local takes him to his place where in the middle of the night he starts beating his sleeping wife and kids for not receiving him on arrival. When the escort intervenes to save the poor lady and children, he is blamed for having malicious intentions towards his wife.
The play unfolds a series of incidents where people influenced by drugs, alcohol and other intoxications create hell for themselves as well as for others.
Through this play Balwant Thakur has tried to make an appeal to save mankind from addiction of intoxicants.
Actors who performed in the play were Neeraj Kant, Brijesh Avtar Sharma, Aadesh Dhar, Palshin Dutta, Vishal Sharma, Vansh Pandotra, Sanket Bhagat, Kushal Bhat and Chaitanaya Shekhar. The show was coordinated by Mohd. Yaseen.
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