Balwant Thakur’ Hindi play ‘Jaal’ staged by Natrang at Nagrota
Jammu, 31st October, 2023 : Balwant Thakur’s Hindi play ‘JAAL’ was staged here today at Excise and Taxation Training Institute, Nagrota, Jammu under the direction of Neeraj Kant The play was presented with the support of Jammu and Kashmir Excise Department. In a very effective manner, this powerful play innovatively showcases how the Drug-menace is ruining the generations like a rapid-fire, crippling developing nation like India. The youth of the country, the largest energetic and productive human resource of the country, sometimes unknowingly slip into the trap of the drug menace.
The play was not based on one storyline but as an experiment Balwant Thakur has woven multiple stories in one theme focusing the spread of drug menace like a mesh, this taking the toll of the strongest workforce of the country. In a sequence, a young boy is shown struggling for good company after his passing of the school and entry in the college. He is isolated for not being the consumer of intoxication. All around him treat him like a child which really frustrates him and to prove that he has grown-up as a young man now, he finds the easiest way and demonstrates his coming of age by consuming a variety of intoxications. In another sequence a rural inhabitation particularly the men-folk is shown drowned in the menace of alcohol. All the miseries of the village like poverty, domestic violence, and ailments are attributed to the constant growth of consumption of alcohol in the village. In a sequence the daily routine of a villager is shown who consumes the whole of his daily earnings seeking alcohol. Being drunk completely he has looses his way home. By the time a local escorts him to his place where in the middle of the night this drunken man starts beating his sleeping wife and kids for not receiving him on his arrival. When the escort intervenes to save the poor lady and children, he is blamed for having ill intentions towards his wife. This fight further messes up when a drunken man after losing his senses damages his household belongings as well. The play unfolds a series of incidents where people influenced by drugs, alcohol, and other intoxications create hell for themselves as well as for others. Many precious lives are being charred in this fire of drug menace which is to be fought unitedly to bring them out of the mesh of drug menace. Through this play, Balwant Thakur has tried to make an appeal to save mankind from this dragon.
Actors who outshined in their respective performances and left an impact of their acting included Neeraj Kant, Aadesh Dhar, Kananpreet Kour, Vishal Sharma, Abhimanyu Choudhary, Sanket bhagat, Kushal Bhat, Sumit Bandaral, Sishant Singh Charak and Mohd. Yaseen
