Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Apr 20: Theatre group ‘Natrang’ here today staged play ‘Commission’ written by Saadat Hasan Manto and directed by Neeraj Kant.
The play opens in a modern court room of a modern emperor along with his two head butlers. The emperor is a satirical being who brags how he has developed a friendly relationship between the goats and lions in his kingdom to erase their hostilities.
The emperor doesn’t share a good relationship with his empress and is going through a bad phase of love life. The twist comes when a ‘Fariyadi’ comes to seek justice for his workers who were killed by the maids of the empress, who were practicing archery in an open place.
The emperor promotes his head butlers to Ministers and asks them to go through the matter and come up with proper report. After two months the newly appointed Ministers comes up with a gigantic report of one lakh words and presents the whole story before the emperor. The emperor on listening about this massacre satirically boasts that he is a better emperor than Jahangir and his philosophies doesn’t make sense in modern era and asks his Ministers to behead all the girls who were involved in the massacre but before the culprits are executed, a commission needs to be formed to deliver justice.
Actors who performed in the play were Aryan Sharma, Kartik Kumar, Manvi Devi, Adaksh Bagal and Krishay Bhatia; lights were operated by Neeraj Kant and presented by Meenakshi Bhagat. The show was coordinated by Mohd. Yaseen.
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