Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Dec 17: Hindi play ‘Do Kalakaar’ written by Bhagwati Charan Verma and directed by Neeraj Kant was staged here today at Natrang Studio.
In the play, ‘Churamani’ and ‘Martand’ were friends both artists with one poet and another painter and they had once aspired to rule the Bollywood with their respective creative strengths.
The poet had dreamt of becoming the top Hindi Film lyricist and the painter had set a goal for himself to become the most sought after art director of the tinsel town but destiny lands them in a situation where both are forced to use their creative energies to cook stories to escape the harassment of their landlord who was not paid the rent of a dingy room for the last six months.
The play opens at a situation where both the poet and the painter have locked themselves in a room which is being visited by the landlord to collect rent from them.
The landlord forcefully makes his entry despite all-out unsuccessful efforts to hold him back were made by them. When caught at the corner, both take shelter of their creative mind and start cooking highly logical excuses to impress the landlord.
Both sell him the dreams to the extent that the room rented out to them will once become a museum which once hosted the great genius of the world of poetry and painting.
Finding the distance beyond measurement between their dreams and reality, the landlord throws them out of the room to face further rejection and dejection of the society.
Both the poet and the painter get the realization that this world is not meant for creative people.
Natrang artists who performed in the play were Aadesh Dhar, Abhimanyu Choudhary, Sumit Bandaral, Chaitanya Shekhar, Anand Verma and Sonali Sharma. Lights were executed by Neeraj Kant and the sound was rendered by Kushal Bhat.
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