Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Oct 5: Natrang staged ‘Uthal Puthal’, a play in Hindi based on a Russian short story, written by Anton Chekhov and directed by Neeraj Kant in its weekly Sunday Theatre Series.
The play talked about self respect and dignity. It revolves around a young girl ‘Malvika’, who lives as a paying-guest in the house of one highly arrogant lady, Maya. One day she comes back home from college and finds the house in turmoil. When she walks into her room, she finds her landlady rummaging through her things, all her stuff be it books, clothes, flowers or vase were scattered on the floor. Maya leaves in hurry and her friend tells Malvika that a very expensive brooch was lost and the ever suspicious was searching and screening each and every one to find that. Malvika is very disturbed that the landlady would look through her things, obviously assuming her a thief. Then, at dinner, Maya makes a comment about how she will not tolerate thieves in her house. This pushes ‘Malvika’ over the edge and she decides to leave the place.
While she is packing, ‘Nikhil’, the master of the house and Maya’s husband, comes into her room and begs her to stay. He then reveals that actually he stole the brooch as he was short of money and his dominating wife has captured all the possessions with her and turned him to be a beggar in his own house. This disturbs Malvika even more who stays with her decision to leave the home as there is no dignity in living at a place where there is no respect for your honesty and nothing else is more important than self respect and dignity for an honest person.
Natrang’s artists who presented a remarkable performance, included Mohd Yaseen, Sakshi Prakash, Juhi Singh, Kritika Bhau and Rajan Thakyal. The show was coordinated by Sumeet Sharma.
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