Two short plays ‘Gatt’, ‘Beti’ strike a chord with audience

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Daily Excelsior
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Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Apr 18: The presentations of play in Dogri, ‘Gatt’ by Chandarbhaga Sanskriti Manch and ‘Beti’ play in Hindustani by Jammu’s Nav Durga Kala Manch, marked the second day of the ongoing three-day festival two short plays were staged at the K L Saigal Hall, here today.
Directed by O P Shakir, the play ‘Gatt’, in its Dogri avatar, despite many green horn young actors, came out as entertaining production. Highlighting the ills of the system where government officials, police and politicians, instead of genuinely working for lifting the lot of poor and the downtrodden are only focused upon safeguarding their personal interests, the script of the play was marked by dialogues full of colloquial expressions and spoken by young actors struck a chord with the audience who enjoyed and appreciated the performance by the group from Akhnoor.
The actors in the play included Sparasha Verma, Kunal, Sugam, Anmole, Rishav, Ayush, Kanav and O P Deepak.
The second performance was Hindi play ‘Beti’ by Jammu’s Nav Durga Kala Manch. Written and directed by Shashi Bhushan, the play again dealt with the theme of female infanticide. The play, a collage of many illustrations from mythology, ends with an interesting turn of events. Due to mindless female infanticide, a stage comes in the society when due to very less number of girls in the society the tables turn on the boys of marriageable age. Now they are being evaluated by girls’ mothers for their skills in cooking washing and other hold chores. The actors who enacted in the play were Dilshad Sazi, Ashish Bhat, Sandeep Sahrma, Nikhil Sharma, Anoop Goswami, Rashi Raina, Anvi Jain and Sanjay Sonkar.
Surinder Goel, veteran theatre and media personality was also felicitated on the occasion.
Sham Lal Choudhary, MLA. Suchetgarh constituency was the chief guest of today’s event, while Sat Pal, District President BJP was guest of honour.  The chief guest in his address praised the groups for staging meaningful plays. He also congratulated Samooh Theatre and Society for Environment, Education & Modern Art, for organizing the three-day short play festival.

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