Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, June 16: Theatre group ‘Natrang’ here today staged a new Hindi play ‘Laadli’ written by Manjul Bhardwaj and directed by Neeraj Kant.
The play was based on gender inequality and it echoes the cries of countless unborn girls.
The play begins with the crying echo of a female foetus, where the girl in embryo form establishes a dialogue with her mother and says: “O mother! Don’t kill me, I want to come into this world to see this beautiful world.”
In next scene, a woman is forced to undergo an amniotic fluid test and is later forced to abort the pregnancy after learning that the child in womb is girl. In this poignant scene, the father’s expression of inability to raise dowry for the girl and his pleading that the grandparents’ lineage should not grow is presented very effectively.
Girl’s grandfather talks about getting his son married for the second time. After this, the artists spread across the stage search for girls and then educate audiences about the boy-girl ratio in different states of India.
After this, the girl in the female foetus talks to her parents, grandparents and the doctor and says that she should be allowed to born because nowadays girls are not weak and are able to stand on their own feet after getting education to help their parents.
Addressing the doctor, the girl says that your job is to give life and not to take it.
At last, the mother musters courage to give birth to the girl and all the actors sing and dance to express happiness and the play ends.
Artists who performed in the play were Priyal Gupta, Payal Khanna, Sanna Devi, Lalita Sharma, Kushal Bhat, Aadesh Dhar and Mehak Chib.
Lights were operated by Neeraj Kant and the show was coordinated by Mohd. Yaseen.
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