Hindi play ‘Vasiyat’ defines ethics of life
Our Correspondent
Chandigarh, September 16
The CEVA Drama repertory Company presented a Hindi play Vasiyat under the direction of SNA’s Bismillah Khan awardee Dr Chandra Shekhar at Tagore theatre here today. Khan adapted Bhagwati Charan Verma’s story of the same title for theatrical adaptation of the play.
The play debated the very significance of mostly accepted Vedanta philosophy of moral ethics of life with the human beings aspiring for Moksha in sharp contradiction of philosopher Charvaak’s declaration that there was no other world than the existing one.
This all was illustrated in a dramatic way after an old man expired leaving a will. When the will was read out, it brought into focus his good or bad comments on each of his progeny, which led many acrimonious discussions, fights, emotional outbursts on the sharing of property of an old man. However, emotions subsided with harmony, love and affection getting restored.
The play marked with good acting spells and adherences to timings kept the audience amused throughout. Jasvir Kumar, Chainish Gill, Rinku jain, Vinod Bharti, Abimanue Kamboz, Pragati Sharma, Priti Arora, Sonika Bhatia, Asha Saklani, Prasashti, Jaswinder Singh and others essayed their roles well.
Tributes paid to legendary singer Kishore Kumar
Chandigarh: As many as 20 well known singers from the region presented musical tributes to legendary iconic Bollywood playback singer and actor Kishore Kumar at a specially designed cultural bonanza ‘ Musafir hoon yaaro...’, organised by the Tricity Cultural Association at Mini Tagore theatre here today.
Dr SS Parsad (IAS) was the chief guest and Dr Pawan Kumar, member of the HPSC, was the special guest of honour on the occsion. Ranju Parsad (IPS), Shanatnu Mishra and MN Shukla lighted the traditional lamp.
The singers who impressed most, include Dr Sangeeta Choudhury, Manmohan Lakhera Subhasis, Sutapa Sharma, Aashish, Arup Sanchita Chakraboty, SD Burman Sucheta Mukherjee, Kriti Jana, Kumar Bittu and Bablu Ganguly, who rendered the title song. An enthralling performance came from Piyousha Mitra, who supported by Aishiki Mukherjee doled out ‘ O sathi re’ and medley of six songs. Despite indisposition senior Haryana bureaucrat Ranju Parsad stole the limelight as she gave magical performance with songs like ‘Aage bhi jaane..’ and the romantic ‘ Ye smaan hai pyar ka...’ Parmod Sinha and Rajshri Sinha anchored the programme. Association president Shanatnu Mitra expressed gratitude to guests and participants.
