लीजिए आपके लिए प्रस्तुत है हेमन्त 'हिम' की कुछ ताजातरीन हिन्दी गज़लें जो मई से जुलाई 2024 के बीच रची गईं हैं. आपकी प्रतिक्रया हेतु कवि का ईमेल आईडी नीचे दिया गया है -
| फोटोग्राफर - पीके, स्थान - स्विट्ज़रलैंड, वर्ष- 2014 |
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लीजिए आपके लिए प्रस्तुत है हेमन्त 'हिम' की कुछ ताजातरीन हिन्दी गज़लें जो मई से जुलाई 2024 के बीच रची गईं हैं. आपकी प्रतिक्रया हेतु कवि का ईमेल आईडी नीचे दिया गया है -
| फोटोग्राफर - पीके, स्थान - स्विट्ज़रलैंड, वर्ष- 2014 |
The ultimate Agency problem
( हिंदी में समीक्षा के लिए - यहाँ क्लिक करके क्रम सं. 53 देखिए )
This play is a miniature of social dynamic of today's world. Everyone has some sort of shortcoming for which he has to take help of another for achieving the purpose. The other person has in turn his own shortcoming and he is similarly taking recourse to someone else for achieving his objective. Simultaneously there is an interplay of clashing interests which is typically called agency problem. Agency problem means the person who takes along your work is more interested in his own interest than that of his client.
There are dashing three friends each suffering from a physical handicap. One is deaf, another is dumb and the third one is blind. They three cooperate each other in every work. They all fall in love with the same girl. And the whole play weaves the detailed comedy of how they communicate their love message to the beloved with the help of another one who is himself interested in marrying the same girl. See, how it looks like.
It so happened that when the deaf boy proposed to the girl the girl replied something but the deaf boy could not hear it so he explored another means to convey. He now wants to see the reaction of the girl visually how she reacts over it. So he records his message in a tape recorder with the help of his dumb friend. But in it after the introductory prelude just at the moment his love proposal begins, his dumb friend starts making noise loudly to black out the love message of his contender. And you could imagine how the girl would have reacted after listening to this spoiled message on the tape recorder. But as the deaf is unable to hear he is wondering why his beloved did not like his love proposal.
Similarly when the dumb wanted to convey his love message to the girl the deaf friend was readily available to help. So, the scene moved on like this. The dumb guy is conveying his love poem in his sign language which is being translated in sound by the deaf friend. But at the nick of hour when the vital part of love proposal comes he changes the words adversely and blotches his efforts.
The whole play is a series of innumerous such comic instances threaded together neatly in the form of a coherent story. In the climax the girl choses a handicap chap to marry but who is the fortunate one? This is to be seen in the theatre hall.
On each and every move of this play you are bound to burst in laughter. The noticeable point is that you are not laughing at someone's disability but on his special ability of outpacing others of the same category. Cancellation of one's special ability is made through another one's special ability and this way the playwright cleverly succeeds in avoiding moral dilemma of the audience whether he should laugh or not.
It must have been very challenging for the actors to deliver the genuine gestures of the specially abled persons but they aced their challenges. The deaf man was more vivid with his plump physique and facial expression. The blind man was so dashing notwithstanding his visual impairment and the dumb one gave his true gestures of his own class. The cynosure and darling of all the three heroes was a pretty lass character who lived up with the adequate grace and youthful mannerism. The director has kept every sequence very taut avoiding any sort of flab.
Mayuresh Pem, Vikash Patil, Manmeet Pem and Richa Agnihotri were the actors in the show. Writer and Director of the play is Devendra Pem.
The faces of the relaxed audience were saying that they got their piece of the pie. A totally different genre of comedy!
A rally of frenzied excuses
( हिंदी में समीक्षा के लिए - यहाँ क्लिक करके क्रम सं. 52 देखिए )
Relishing every bit of life
( हिंदी में समीक्षा के लिए - यहाँ क्लिक करके क्रम सं. 51 देखिए )
If you are already bearing the toughest pain of life then it's much easier for you to experience happiness in trifles. But is it so easy? Of course, if you are inclined to relish every bit and every twist and turn of your life.
An advertisement is floated by a Blind Men's Club for inducting other members. Kale choses to join. Just he enters the club he falls down because the further part of the platform is steep 5 ft deep. And mind it, it is deliberate. There are three hosts in the blind club one of them is the manager of the club. All have become blind in some later stage of life. They smoke, they dine, sip tea, tease and dine together. The laugh, they ogle and suddenly there is a ghastly scene of murder.
The play has been scripted by Chandrashekhar Phanasalkar and was directed by Megh varn Pant under the banner of Natyalay, Pune. The actors did well especially ones who played the roles of Manager, Kale and the body builder. The fourth actor performed well in terms of body movement but dialogue delivery part should improved more.
Who is the real pakitmaar?
( हिंदी में समीक्षा के लिए - यहाँ क्लिक करके क्रम सं. 50 देखिए )
"The real pakitmaar is not who picks pocket but one who lacks sensitivity for the deprived class." The playwright Asghar Wajahat has depicted the fact in his play "Pakitmaar Rangmandal". The way it was presented by the Third Wing Theatre at Veda Factory was a perfect blend of melodrama and realism.
A young man is a pickpocket and is pursuing his profession religiously and picks the pocket of a vendor by diverting his attention to a beautiful lady. This man is on cloud nine and comes across a man who threatens him that he has noticed his mischief and would get him caught by the police. The young man is scared and surrenders before him. That threatener assures him to forgive subject to the condition that he would join his theatre group and quit pickpocketing. The young man agrees for it but discovers that his own pocket had been pickpocketed by the same presumptuous guy who had threatened him to take to police. Later he learns that his group is made with all such persons only and the name of the group is "Pakitmaar Rangmandal". In his group all the members were either from poor class or were some sort of destitute earlier. So they joined the theatre group to earn their livelihood in a socially acceptable manner.
But members of "Pakitmaar Rangmandal" who were mostly from a criminal background did not know that the bigger crimes are committed only by the so-called white-collared class. And this is the reason when their play is ready after 3 months of rigorous rehearsals, they are denied the auditorium just because the name of their group does not sound well. The so-called civilised auditorium managers would allow to use their hall only to the group who ostensively look good. But the founder owner of "Pakitmaar Rangmandar" would not concede to change the name for a better one as it is related to their earlier past and they love they love every part of their life. After a lot of extra effort one hall manager agrees to allow their hall for this group but on double charge. So, here Asghar Wajahat has shown the duplicity in the character of so-called civilised class. How can extra charge remove the stain of bad name? Half amount is paid and the hall is booked.
Just before the day of performance the hall-manager asks for full payment and the theatre group is in short of Rs.5000. And the niggling hall-manager is adamant on canceling the booking. As large number of tickets had been sold the group director has no way but to go for pickpocketing his old profession for one night. He is caught by the police this time. What happens after this, this should be watched in the real performance of the play.
The script moves in a very realistic scenario but in between it takes help of some melodramatic effects as in the flash-back of real life scenes of goons attacking the girl and saved by a protagonist member of the group. In another scenes, there are some romance between the a young male and a female member of the group. To enthrall the audience there are scenes of popular songs and dances too. As a whole the whole play is mix bag of full entertainment and a natural comment of morality.
The music of Durgesh Atwal did a real music with the director Gaurav taking good dancing steps from the actors. The old woman, the founder of Pakitmaar Rangmandal, the young pakitmaar made a noticeable dent through their acting. The young lady and other actors were also up to the mark.
हम तो अहसास के मालिक/ मालो-ज़र क्यों जोड़ें
दिनांक 28.5.2024 को देश के नामचीन शायर संजय कुमार कुंदन के पटना स्थित आवास पर कुछ साहित्यकारों के सांयोगिक जुटान हुआ जो एक काव्य गोष्ठी के रूप में परिणत हो गया. इस अनौपचारिक कवि-गोष्ठी न तो कोई अध्यक्ष घोषित किया जा सका न ही संचालक. पर कार्यक्रम सुचारू रूप से चला.
A Jasmine need not be a rose
( हिंदी में समीक्षा के लिए - यहाँ क्लिक करके क्रम सं. 49 देखिए )