Raaga staged 'Dus Dino ka Anashan' in Patna on 25.4.2018

An individual's motive metamorphosed as a mass movement.

Bannu gets a glimpse of the beauty of a married girl and was moonstruck.  In a state of total  infatuation he is thinking to devise the ways to get his newly found love dumping all ethics in a back-burner. A godman Sanakidas arrives there and on  being asked to suggest the way of finding the fond woman by hook or crook, Sanakidas advises him to go for a hunger strike till death. When Bannu starts his hunger strike, it is used by a politician to it's logical metamorphosis. Now a movement which is driven with absolutely individual motive is termed as a mass movement for mass welfare. All tantrums of politics suddenly comes into play. Caste, religion and several other considerations are in air. A Committee in constituted to look into the matter. And ultimately the politician wins in turning everything into his favour. The whole play deplores the state of democracy nowadays in the whole world. The system which had been created with a pious intention of coming over the lacunae of military rule and monarchy has now been reduced to a farce.

The show was thoroughly entertaining and message emerges so naturally that nobody notices he is watching something more than a comedy. Harishankar Parsai shows his exceptional talent of creating satirical script from the common happenings in the surrounding world..The body language of Hiralal Roy (Bannu) and Rubi Khatoon  (Sabitri) was impressive. In the last scene when Sabitri comes in the get-up of a bridegroom with a garland in her hands  and an almost dead Bannu goes with a garland to put it into the neck of the girl, everybody was struck by the sheer pinch of extreme tragedy behind the ostentatious comedy.  Bannu falls down on the ground for ever. 

Annu Priya in the role of a TV journalist was amazing.She posed truly as a digging journalist.  Ranvijay Singh, Shubham Kaushik,  Nandkishore Kr, , Abhishek Kr, Rqahul Kr, Md. Sadaruddin, Rohit Chandra, Aditya Ganjan all did justice with their respective characters. Randhir Kr, Roshan Kr, Aditya, Rohit Chandra, Aditya Kr. Gunjan, Rahul Ravi, Abhishek Raj, Rajiv Roy, Probodh Vishwakarma, Rubi Khanun, Md. Sadaruddin Shukdev Prasad, Randhir Kr., Manish Mahiwal, Bhpendra Kumar, Manish Mahiwal, Bhupendra and Annu Priya extended their valuable support from backstage, Sunil Bihari a very good singer and actor had directed the play who won the standing applause of the audience. Music was not used in the later part of the play. Set design and make-up were well.

(व्यंग्य) एक बेकार और लफंगा सा युवक मन्नू फिदा है एक विवाहित सुंदरी पर और सारे शिष्टाचार को ताक पर रख कर उससे किसी भी प्रकार शादी करना चाहता है. इस हेतु वह उचित उपाय खोज रहा है. एक साधु से मुलाकात होती है. उसे चढ़ावा देकर अपनी समस्या का उपाय पूछता है तो साधु उसे आमरण अनशन करने की युक्ति बताते हैं जिससे वह अपनी इच्छा की पूर्ति कर पाएगा. फिर क्या है वह बैठ जाता है अनशन पर. भूखे प्यासे बेचारे की हालत खराब होने लगती है. पर इस पागलपन में भी राजनेताओं को अपने काम की चीज नजर आती है. बस फिर उसके इस विशुद्ध मूर्खतापूर्ण और व्यक्तिगत कार्य को पार्टियों द्वारा एक आंदोलन के रूप में प्रचारित किया जाता है जो फलाँ जाति और फलाँ धर्म के समर्थन में और फलाँ-फलाँ के विरुद्ध में है. बड़ी संख्या में लोग लामबंद होने लगते हैं और शुरू हो जाता है जुलूसों का सिलसिला. बेचारा मन्नू को अंत में वह विवाहित स्त्री माला पहनाने तो आती है लेकिन तब तक... 

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Review by - Hemant Das ''Him' / Sanjay Kumar

Photographs by - Vinod Kumar