Anita Devgan’s moving solo act in Kanso

Amritsar, March 19

A moving performance by actor Anita Devgan, a powerhouse of talent in Punjabi theatre and cinema, was the highlight of the day at the ongoing Amritsar Rangmanch festival at Virsa Vihar. The mono act play Kanso, directed by Kewal Dhaliwal, Kanso was the story of a woman’s struggles, right from her childhood to old age, laced with all the emotions that she or for that matter, any woman would go through.

Working as a domestic help since childhood along with her mother, Kanso, a girl with a voice of reason, moved from her native village to city years ago. Abused and subjected to social prejudice as any other girl child in our country, Kanso and her mother were left abandoned one day and had find refuge in city, working in different homes. Quietly enduring the humiliation, oppression that domestic workers are mostly subjected to, Kanso never let her dreams die, even when she knows that her limited means would never allow her to fulfil them. She works hard to make sure that her daughter, Rano, doesn’t suffer the same fate as she does and educates herself.

As Kanso, Devgan was flawless in projecting the emotions of a hapless but hopeful woman. —TNS