Natrang presented Mani Madhukar’s hard hitting political satire ‘Topian’ under the direction of Balwant Thakur here today at Natrang studio theatre in Sunday Theatre Series. The play is a dig on the lusty politicians who can change colors faster than a chameleon just to ensure that they remain in power. For them, mission is to befool public and for that they have the requisite theatrical art, know-how, expertise and the excellence to transform themselves to any color or attire as per the situation and the requirement. In the backdrop of the story of two neighbors who pledge to change the political scene are shown looking for alternatives. Each time they come across a person they meet only those wearing different caps and attire offering them variety of manifestos. Each time they identify him as a different person and expect a different ideology from him. This way they succumb to his tactics. Over the time when they find that nothing is changing, the slogans of socialism are furthering the divide between rich and poor, quality of life is deteriorating day by day and the security of life and property is at the mercy of God. Both muster courage and strip the person selling those dreams. Surprisingly inside clothes they find that he is the same person and every time he used to come to them in different attire. The playwright has successfully portrayed that the politicians are the same; they only change their caps and their colors just to befool public. They can be friends and the enemies at the same time, their equations and confrontations change for lust of power. Human civilization has witnessed lot of social and political revolutions, each time thinkers and philosophers have sold new political thoughts and doctrine of governance. But ironically the same faces have made their way to power just by hiding real faces in new masks. They have been changing color of their caps and not their mind set. The roles of two neighbors were played by Mohd. Yaseen and Rajan Thakyal, both gave engrossing performances where as Susheel Raina rendered equal support to them. The lights of the play were designed by Neeraj Kant and the presentations were given by Sajra Qadir.
Posted on: Sun, 12 Oct 2014 10:37:22 +0000
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