STATE TIMES NEWS
JAMMU: Natrang in its Sunday Theatre staged a new Hindi play Vikalp written in Dogri by N.D Jamwal and translated in Hindi by Dr. Om Goswami. The play has been directed by Neeraj Kant.
Director Natrang, Balwant Thakur thanked Governor N.N Vohra who is also the Chairman of Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Shrine Board (SMVDSB) for giving an opportunity to the entire theatre fraternity of India to select and translate short Dogri plays in Hindi. He said that Natrang has promised to stage all the Dogri short plays translated and published recently in Hindi by Dogri Sanstha with the support of SMVDSB.
The play opens at the home of a working couple, which is so much involved in daily chores that the husband and wife hardly gets time to take care of their newly born child. Being busy in their awful schedule, they have given all the responsibility of their child on their maid-servant. On one such day, the couple had a severe altercation on who will stay back at home and look-after the child as the maid-servant is on leave. As they both consider their respective works to be more important, no one is ready to stay back, in between this dispute, the mother skips and the father manages to bring the maid for a while for babysitting, who also skips, giving all the responsibility to the grandfather of the child who had made just a casual visit there. Annoyed at this culture, the grandfather scolds both the parents and instructs them to find appropriate substitute for the situations like this as child care is more important than anything else. The play narrates the story of all those who could not look-after their kids due to their busy schedule.
Artists Mahikshit Singh, Kritika Bhau, Sachin Bamba and Mausami Thakyal performed in the play. The lights of the play were designed and executed by Neeraj Kant whereas Shivam Singh gave the music of the play. Mohammad Yaseen coordinated the show.
