Budya Lapata: An Entertaining Garhwali Drama

Budya Lapata: An Entertaining Garhwali Drama

(Garhwali Dramas, Kumaunis Dramas, Uttarakhandi Dramas, Himalayan Dramas)

इकीसवीं सदी क गढ़वाळी स्वांग/नाटक -9

बुडया लापता : रौंस दिलंदेर हंसोड्या स्वांग फाड़ी -2

                        Bhishm Kukreti

  Contribution of late Dinesh Bhardwaj in promoting Garhwali drama in Mumbai is tremendous. Dinesh Bhardwaj not only directed Garhwali Dramas, performed in Garhwali stage plays but wrote a drama too along with another Garhwali dramatist Raman Kukreti.

    As far as popular dramas are concerned, laud dramas run more in Mumbai than other types of dermas. Keeping in mind the psych of Mumbai’s Garhwali duo writers wrote a laud Garhwali drama ‘Budya Lapata’.

    Garhwal Chhatra Sangh and Garhwal Bhratri Mandal staged this hilarious drama. As guessed by Dinesh Bhardwaj and Raman Kukreti, the audience appreciated the drama written around end eighties.

 The story is simple but has ingredients to   glue the audience on their seats.

 An old man is missing; his son and his servant are worried. The son announces a reward for that brings back his father. Two different persons bring two different fathers and demand for reward. Each person compels the son that he should offer reward to him only. The drama takes anew turn at the end.

 The drama deals with individual’s greed and their style of making false as truthful substance.

 The main character is servant and there are six seven characters. However from stage point of view, there are four main characters whose roles are important.

   The plot is very crispy and easy to stage the written form of Budya Lapata drama. Each character is totally different than other and hence, provides variety.

  Dinesh Bhardwaj used to play mainly comic roles, Raman Kukreti had watched various hilarious Marathi dramas in Mumbai from his childhood and definitely the dialogues are best example of creating laughter.  The conversation is superb in the drama. The conversation makes the drama live. The wording is simple and phrases are easily understandable as written for specially migrated Garhwalis.  The dialogue style has poetic touch too that makes dialogue more graspable to audience.

  The dram is definitely a humorous one and director may create atmosphere as per his need.

  Definitely Budya Lapata is a gem for the modern Garhwali drama world.

Garhwali Dramas, Kumaunis Dramas, Uttarakhandi Dramas, Himalayan Drama to be continued ….

Copyright@ Bhishm Kukreti