Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Sept 15: Theatre group ‘Natrang’ here today staged Hindi play ‘Girgit’ directed by Balwant Thakur.
Based on a Russian short story by Anton Chekhov the play is a hard hitting satire on the present socio-political system deeply rooted in the soil of Jammu.
The play ‘Girgit’ revolves around a dog and a corrupt police officer, who changes colours with the situation like a chameleon.
The stage action starts when a dog bites a pickpocket who approaches the officers to help him to roundup dog’s owner, but all in vain.
A passerby tips that the dog belongs to the local minister. On getting this clue, the officer starts beating the pickpocket for teasing a respectable dog. The officer claims that a dog of minister cannot bite unless and until forced to do so.
While he is beating the pickpocket, another man from the crowd observes that the local minister cannot keep such dog as he is known to have pointer-hunting dogs only.
On this, dog is thrashed and search continues for its owner to enable the pickpocket claim compensation. The beating of dog continues until a servant of the minister appears on the scene. At first he refuses to recognize the dog but later identifies it as minister’s brother’s dog who has visited from Delhi. Here the dog is escorted back home with full official protocol.
Artists who performed in the play were Shivam Singh, Manoj Kumar Lalotra, Meenakshi Bhagat, Sushant Singh Charak, Mohit Sharma, Toyab Hussain, Aarti Devi, Kuldeep Angral and Sumit Raina.
The show was coordinated by Neeraj Kant and Mohd. Yaseen.
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