Dogri play ‘Gatte-ch-Maanu’ staged

Excelsior Correspondent

JAMMU, Oct 12: Balwant Thakur’s Dogri play ‘Gatte-ch-Maanu’ (Man in the ditch) directed by Neeraj Kant was staged here today.
The play was based on Krishna Chander’s famous Urdu classic short story ‘Khadda’.
A man fell into a ditch and all his pleas for help remain unanswered by one and all. Different people pass by him giving different excuses for their inability to help him.
The unemployed youth are unable to find out of their fixed schedule of hunting for girls. The ‘Sadhu’ showers blessings and prays for his peace, the cop lodges an FIR and asks the man in ditch to report to the Police Station and a foreigner lady enquires about his choice between India and Pakistan.
The situation becomes more dramatic when a minister after a complaint from the public about worsening road condition makes a round of the area.
The workers of Public Works Department instead of taking out the man from the ditch put wooden planks over the ditch and make stage for minister’s speech. Here the minister lists his development revolution and lashes at his opponents.
After the public meeting, wooden planks were removed but no one pays heed to the man in the ditch.
Finally a man from the audience appears and appeals everyone to give a helping hand to the man still in the ditch despite seventy eight years of independence.
Natrang actors who performed in the play were Neeraj Kant, Pawan Vema, Mohd. Yaseen, Kartik Kumar, Aadesh Dhar, Aryan Sharma, Brijesh Avtar Sharma and Kushal Bhat. The show was presented by Tanisha.

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