Natrang stages Munshi Prem Chand’s famous short story ‘Kafan’
20/08/2018
JAMMU, Aug 19: Natrang staged a dramatic presentation of Munshi Prem Chand's famous short story, 'Kafan' here today at Natrang Studio Theatre in its Sunday Theatre Series. The play was directed by Neeraj Kant.
Though written many years ago by country's most celebrated visionary writer, the story appears timeless and still has a lot to convey to the present generation and even generations to come and it is a very precise satire on the degradation of human values.
At the very outset Natrang Director Balwant Thakur informed that in connection with the celebrations of 35 glorious years of Natrang, the organisation is organising a 4 day theatre festival every month and 4th festival is starting from 20th of August featuring four theatre productions of Natrang.He further informed that the festival will open with Natrang's most celebrated play 'Mahabhoj' written by Mannu Bhandari on 20th of August, 2018 under the direction of Balwant Thakur at 6 pm at Abhinav Theatre, Jammu. On 21st of August, 2018 Gulzar's 'Kharaashein' will be presented under the direction of Rahul Singh. On 3rd day of the festival on 22nd of August, 2018, Balwant Thakur's highly acclaimed Children play 'Mere Hisse Ki dhoop Kahan hai will be showcased. The festival will conclude on 23rd of August, 2018 with the all-time super comedy play 'Saiyan Bhaye Kotwal' written by Vasant Sabnis and directed by Balwant Thakur.
The play Kafan revolveed around a father and his son who work as labourers in a village. The son's wife is near the end of her pregnancy and is in need of medical attention, which the family certainly cannot afford.
The poor lady cries in pain as 'Ghisu' and his son 'Madhav' watch helplessly. She eventually dies during childbirth, adding to the problems of the father and son. Driven to extreme poverty and despair, they have no money or means to perform the funeral rites for the unfortunate women. They cannot ignore the dead body lying in their hut, and set out to ask the villagers for some monetary assistance which they get after some effort but when it comes to the purchase the shroud for her, they change their mind and rather buy liquor out of that charity money, giving consolation to their sinful souls that what would a dead woman do with that piece of cloth, she does not need anything but blessings.
The play very emotionally exposes the monster of alcoholism and the story seems to be so relevant and close to the contemporary times.
The play shows that people ruin their life and lives of their dependents in lust of alcohol and those who are captured in its trap may have nothing to eat and feed their family but will go out of ways to muster resources for the acquisition of liquor. Kafan which translates to a shroud in English describes the degradation of human beings to the lowest level possible.
Natrang young actors who performed in the play included Shivam Singh, Sheetal Jadhan, Ajay Kumar Lalotra, Manoj Kumar Lalotra, Zeeshan Haider, Abhijeet Sharma, Ravees Khan, Rahul Gupta and Rakshit Arora. Lights were designed by Shivam Singh and executed by Neeraj Kant whereas the sound was rendered by Aafaque Khan. Vrinda Sharma did the presentations and the show was coordinated by Mohd Yaseen.
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