Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Jan 10: Under the direction of Neeraj Kant, Theatre group Natrang here today staged Balwant Thakur’s Hindi play ‘AAG’ at Rani Park.
The play exposes how drug menace is ruining generations crippling developing nations.
Multiple stories were woven in the play by the playwright in one theme focusing the spread of drug menace like a fire, taking the toll of important work force of the country.
A young boy is shown struggling for a good company after passing school and entering college. He is isolated for not being the consumer of intoxications. To frustrate him, all those around him taunts that he is a child and to prove such people wrong he starts consuming intoxicants.
In another sequence, a rural inhabitation particularly the men-folk is shown drowned in the menace of alcohol. All miseries of the village like poverty, domestic violence etc are shown due to the growing consumption of alcohol there.
In a sequence the daily routine of a villager is shown who consumes whole of his daily earnings for alcohol. Having drunk he has lost his way to home. A local helps him reach home where the drunken man starts beating his sleeping wife and kids for not receiving him on arrival.
When the man who helped him reach home intervenes to save the poor lady and children, the drunken man is blamed for having bad intensions toward his (drunken man’s) wife. Further the drunken man loses senses and damages household property.
The play unfolds series of incidents where people influenced by drugs, alcohol and other intoxicants create hell for themselves as well as for others. Many precious lives are being charred in this fire of drug menace which is to be fought unitedly.
Through this play Balwant Thakur has made an appeal to save mankind from addiction.
Actors who performed in the play included Neeraj Kant, Brijesh Avtar Sharma, Sushant Singh Charak, Abhinav Sharma, Kuldeep Angral, Sahul Dutt, Sagar Gupta, Kananpreet Kaur and Kushal Bhat.
The show was coordinated by Mohd. Yaseen.
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