Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Dec 31: Theatre group ‘Natrang’ here today staged Balwant Thakur’s Hindi play ‘Jaal’ at Rani Park under the direction of Neeraj Kant.
While addressing the gathering, Natrang Director, Balwant Thakur said, while bidding farewell to the year 2023 and welcoming 2024, Natrang chose to stage a play to address the biggest challenge of contemporary times.
The play ‘Jaal’ was not based on any one story-line but as an experiment, Balwant Thakur wove 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 passing the school and making entry to the college. He is isolated for not being the consumer of intoxicants. All those around him treat him like a child and to prove that he has grown-up to a young man, he finds the easiest way by consuming intoxicants.
In another sequence daily routine of a villager is shown who consumes the whole of his daily earnings in alcohol. Being drunkard he loses his way to home and a man escorts him to his place in the middle of the night.
On reaching home the drunkard man starts beating his wife and kids for not receiving him on his arrival.
When the escort intervenes, the drunkard man blames the former for having malicious intentions towards his wife.
The play unfolds a series of incidents where people influenced by drugs, alcohol etc create hell for themselves as well as for others.
Through this play Balwant Thakur has tried to make an appeal to save mankind from the dragon of intoxication.
Actors who performed in the play were Neeraj Kant, Aadesh Dhar, Kananpreet Kour, Vishal Sharma, Abhimanyu Choudhary, Sanket Bhagat, Kushal Bhat and Chaitanaya Shekhar.
The show was conducted by senior actor Rajinder Narang and coordinated by Mohd. Yaseen.
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