Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, May 28: Natrang today presented ‘Firouti’, a play in Hindi which was written by Uday Shankar Bhat and directed by Neeraj Kant at its Sunday Theatre Series. The play carried a very important message which was effectively conveyed by the performers.
The play opens at the home of one ‘Baisakha Ram’ where all the family members are very tense and ‘Baisakha Ram’ himself has turned mad as someone had kidnapped his son and is demanding a huge amount to set him free. Miser to the core, he is concerned with earning the money and investing it to earn it more, Baisakha is not ready to pay a single penny no matter what happens to his son. His family and well wishers try to make him agree to pay the money as money and material is far less important than the relations, that too a kin. But he pays no heed. His ‘Muneem’ is also much concerned about his reactions after receiving the threat letter. He even tries to suggest him different resources from where he can arrange and pay off the money and get his son released, but of no use. At the end the son comes home but the happiness of Baisakha Ram gets evaporated on knowing that all the amount of morning collections has been paid to get him back, he turns unconscious but the other family members are happy to find their family member back in the home. A very significant satire has been made on those for whom relations are far behind materialism through this play.
Mahikshit Singh as ‘Baisakha Ram’, Sonali Wali as ‘Maa’, Abhi Bargotra as ‘Muneem’, Akshit Kaul and Mihir Gujral as ‘Beta’, all young artists of Natrang performed their respective roles as per the requirement of the script. Lights were operated by Neeraj Kant and Music was scored by Bhisham Gupta. The show was coordinated by Mohd Yaseen.
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