Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, July 29: Theatre group Natrang here today staged Saadat Hassan Manto’s play ‘Baanj’ which was directed by Bipan Gupta.
In the play Manto finds himself in a situation where he meets a stranger at sea-shore. He finds that person broken from within because of some deep emotional trauma. They both discuss about the feeling of love and Manto comments that not only those who do not have babies are infertile but all those who are incapable of love are also infertile.
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This statement touches the heart of the stranger and one day when Manto invites that person (Naeem) to his house, he narrates a very tragic love story in which he was hero who started loving a girl Jora. They ran away, got married, started living happily but Jora suddenly died because of a disease, leaving Naeem shattered. This story touched heart of Manto. One day Manto received a letter from Naeem where it was mentioned that the story about Jora was fabricated to prove that he is not incapable of love but soon after the creation of that story he started feeling ‘Jora’ around him and now he is going to end his life in her quest. This turns writer sad and emotional.
The artists who performed in the play were Bipan Gupta, Goutam Sharma, Gautam Kumar, Ashley Mehta and Shashank Singh Charak.
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