BNA organises 5 days stage play festival in Lucknow
Second day story review
KHAMOSHI
SILI SILI
A REVIEW ON KHAMOSHI; STAGE PLAY
KSHITIZ KANT; LUCKNOW
The play ‘Fiddler On The
Roof’ is originally written by the famous playwright Josheph Stein.
Fiddler
on the Roof is a 1971 American musical comedy-drama film produced
and directed by Norman Jewison.
The Hindi play
‘Khamoshi Sili Sili’ is the idea which is an emergence of stein’s play. The
director of this play, Prof Shuresh Sharma, had intention the play with its
professionalism should have been its presentation base on contemporary issues.
Professor Sharma has
been aware of the problems among the society and communities of aggrieved
whether from North-East states, or of Rohingya Muslims or of Kashmiri Pandit in
Kashmir -- all which spirited him to develop a story on these issues taking the
format help of story 'Fiddler on the roof'.
Prof Sharma has offered
this play into public domain posing the issues of Kashmiri Pandit last three
decades, which was staged on second day of festival its start at Kamani
Auditorium in Bhartendu Natya Academy Lucknow Monday this week. The NSD
repertory company is organizing these 5 days under summer theater festival 2019
here.
The play production is
musical and deals with the displacement issues of communities. The story has
been based on the exodus of Kashmiri Pandits from Kashmir.
Why they escaped from
their native land, the story is a glimpse of whole situation brought here on
stage by a family who lives at Nandigram faced much of fear.
The community of
Nandigram manages their daily expenses by doing various kinds of tasks for a
living.
Kashmiri Pandit Pritivi
and Didda his wife belong to one such middle class family, with five daughters.
Prithivi
Nath does work for Nanbai and her wife Didda sells sheep and livestock. The
villagers respect Prithivi, a soulful representative of his village.
This Pandit community of
Kashmir believes to follow and keep faith in their traditions and rituals, but
at the altar of time the community begins to compromise in the long lasting
traditions.
Prithivi Nath fells into
the same trend yet he loves his daughters the most.
Going against the
traditional norms, he allows his daughter to marry men of their choices.
The character Didda,
Bornali Borah, has performed her complimentary role with Prithivinath Jutsi,
Shanavaz Khan.
No doubt the actions of
characters, which have no retake, could be seen and were creating reality on
the stage. The costumes designing and the stage arrangements also carry this
story to its extent.
The third daughter of
this family, Shuhul, goes to betroth a boy from Muslim community without the
prior permission of her parent. The wedlock happens without any intimation to
Shuhul’s parent.
This story has
been dedicated to the non-Muslims communities who were forced to leave the
Kashmir at the time when there was a communal pressure on them.
The displacement in this
story is a pity because this happens inspired of when a Democratic power was in
rule, with Indian army and Indian rule and yet such mishaps occurred.
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