JAMMU: To mark the centenary celebrations of legendry playwright Balwant Gargi, Natrang presented Hindustani adaptation of the play Kabab Mein Haddi under the direction of Balwant Thakur in its weekly theatre series ‘Sunday Theatre’.
Kabab Mein Haddi is a story of one intruder between two lovers. Naseem and Safdar are two college friends. Naseem is in love with Jameela. Both are post-graduate students studying in an university. Jameela is putting-up in the girls hostel whereas Naseem and Safdar are living in a rented accommodation. Despite having engaged they hardly find any space and avenue to meet each other to share their feelings. Jameela’s hostel warden is very strict and hardly allows her to move out and this side, Naseem’s sticky friend Safdar hardly leaves him alone. Both have been shown making attempts to meet each other but in vain. Mustering courage and pulling in all resources they plan their outing on Friendship Day. The moment they step-out, Safdar makes his un-wanted entry and offers them to escort them throughout their outing. Both try to convenience him that they can move on their own but this foolish friend is not ready to buy their arguments and forcefully accompanies them.
The real comedy unveils here when Safdar spoils their every precious moment by intruding between them by creating funny situations. His intrusions irritate them and the moment he sees that they are irritated; he tries to be closer to them with the intention to ease out tension and conflict between them. Finally they get an opportunity to meet but the same is spoiled by their sincere friend. In fact Safdar sincerely wants to help both but his over whelming concern creates dramatic turns in the story. Wherever he is not required he will suddenly make his entry and would turn the whole situation. This comedy play survives due to the unwanted interruptions by the friend and makes everybody laugh and enjoy the friendship day.
The play was presented by the young actors of Natrang. Yash Manhas as Naseem, Mahikshit Singh as Safdar and Kritika Singh Bhau as Jameela played their respective characters with the required energies.
The music of the play was scored by Brijesh Avtaar Sharma whereas Neeraj Kant executed the lights. Rajan Thakyal did the presentations and the show was coordinated by Mohd. Yaseen.