- Wonderful staging by the NSD repertory team on the third day of the Pite Mein Chalo Theater Festival.
(Panipat News) Panipat. The play Laila Majnu was performed on the third day of Chalo Theater Festival at Panipat Institute of Engineering and Technology (PITE), Samalkha. The actors brought love poetry to life on stage. This work by Laila Majnu, different from the stories heard and seen until now, shed light on many issues. Like the love of soul for soul, the love of body for body or the love of body for soul. Finally, when Laila saw that Majnu was absorbed in the light of God above worldly affairs, she left him. Finally a scream was heard. Everyone kept wondering what soul cry that was.
This work is poetic in style written by Ismail Chunara. There are multi-layered meanings in this. This is completely different from the stories of Laila Majnu that we used to know or hear through drama or folk tales. In one place in the play, Laila says, “I wish it were just a story.” Is this just a story or is it also the truth of life? The truth is also not true in the way we have known it. This work has been directed by the director of the National School of Dramatic Art. The Government of India has awarded him Padmashree.
Ravi Mohan, director of Ras Kala Manch Safido, said the repertory team of Rangamandal National School of Drama set the stage. PITE President Hariom Tayal, Vice President Rakesh Tayal, Board Member Rajiv Tayal, Board Member Shubham Tayal, Dean Dr. BB Sharma and members of different social institutions were present on this occasion.
about the drama
This is a love poem in which the story of Laila Majnun is told in the style of traditional poetry and drama. A brief background of this story tells how love blossomed between these two young hearts. It made people think Cass was possessed by an evil spirit. Later in the play we find Walden talking to Layla about how Cass and Layla can’t be together.
Cass begins to sink into sadness. His parents take him to Mecca on a pilgrimage to relieve this pain and ask for Allah’s blessings. But he begins to cry bitterly in the Kaaba. Not knowing the difference between good and evil, he begins to wander through distant deserts. People start calling him Majnu. Laila marries Prince Ibne Salim. Time passes. Ibne Salim dies.
Layla now sets out to find Cass. But when she finds him, she realizes that the man she loved is long gone. A new CAS has taken its place. Now he loves the same image of Laila that is present in his heart. Layla, heartbroken, leaves Cas when he has moved beyond this mundane life to a life of love and light. Laila dies and the choir accompanies her to the end. A painful cry is heard in the distance which also longs to be called Ya-Habibi. Whose soul is that?
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