Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, May 31: The four-day Vijay Suri National Theatre Festival scheduled to open at Abhinav Theatre tomorrow is a homage to the late Vijay Suri, whose contribution to theatre, television and cinema had come in early 50s when J&K had very little resource and openings in the field of art.
Organized by Robaroo Theatre group in collaboration with Jammu and Kashmir Academy of Art, Culture and Languages, the Festival includes some of the greatest national theatrical hits like IPTA, New Delhi’s “Aur Aik Sach” being performed on June 1 which is directed by Aziz Quraishi.
The play is about different stories depicting how directly or indirectly women are subjugated by men in all spheres of life. It is also about two rejected and lonely women who are bound together by old age without any family support system.
On June 2, Prism Theatre Group from Bhopal is performing “Khidi” directed by Vikas Bahari – a struggling writer’s enigma who is faced with a mental block of idea and also dealing with a deadline on the same time. In search of characters, how the writer gets exposed to experience an imaginative flight of his thoughts through a window of his ideas is the essence of the play.
The third in the series on June 3 is brought by Rangshala Theatre Group of Societies entitled “Pishachyatra” by the renowned female director of the state Neha Lahotra . The play is an effort to glorify the self-empowerment of the woman who undergoes several hardships of certain obsolete rituals which are still prevalent in the society. A woman rendered widow at a very tender age is made bald and thrown for the lusting needs of village heads. Pishachyatra unfolds the untold story in it.
The fourth and the last play is Chandigarh’s Collegiate Drama Society’s “Retro “directed by Ravi Taneja.
The story unfolds with an old man trying to adjust with his daughter and son-in-law in their home. They have brought him there after his wife’s death, but he is unable to adjust himself in the city’s life and is a wretched soul who wants to go back home and to his own roots. The play also offers some funny bone-tickling moments.
Talking to the media, director and organizer of Vijay Suri National Theatre Festival , Kajal Suri, said that she has been over the years managing affairs to hold a theatrefest in the name of her father at his native place .
“This is a dream come true for me and I hope Jammu would respond overwhelmingly to its son of soil who contributed to and gave his life for upliftment of theatre in Jammu and Kashmir,” she said.
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