(Review of a Modern Garhwali Drama ‘Ardhgrameshwar ‘ (1976) written by Rajendra Dhashmana and Directed
by Mitra Nand Kukreti )
Notes on contemporariness
in modern dramas, contemporariness in modern Asian dramas, contemporariness in
modern South Asian dramas, contemporariness in modern SAARC country’s dramas,
contemporariness in modern Indian dramas, contemporariness in modern North
Indian dramas, contemporariness in modern Himalayan dramas, contemporariness in
modern Mid Himalayan dramas, contemporariness in modern Uttarakhandi dramas, contemporariness
in modern Kumauni dramas, contemporariness in modern Garhwali dramas
Rajendra Dhashmana is first Garhwali drama
playwright changing the old drama format and brought the new sense and new
format for Garhwali drama art. Same way Mitra Nand Kukreti brought newness in
the field of Garhwali stage play direction or in the field of Garhwali drama
world. Rajendra Dhashmana as a playwright and Mitra Nand Kukreti as a director
of Garhwali stage play world are complimentary to each other. Rajendra
Dhashmana took initiative in bringing modernity in Garhwali drama and Mitra
Nand brought freshness and new imagination in directing ‘Ardhgrameshwar ‘a Garhwali stage play. If Rajendra Dhashmana brought
freshness through new subjects and writing in the modern Garhwali stage plays,
Mitra Nand Kukreti brought the new aspects in production, placing characters dressing
sense, entry of characters, dialogue deliveries, aspects of body languages of performing
characters, dialogue deliveries, affectivity of distance between two or more
performing characters, movement of performing characters, exact movement of performing
characters, uses of lighting and shadow in the Garhwali drama world through ‘Ardhgrameshwar’ a Garhwali stage play.
Before
writing Ardhgrameshwar ‘a Garhwali
stage play, Rajendra Dhashmana wrote a drama ‘Jankjod’ in Garhwali in 1975. While Mitra Nand Kukreti had good
experience of dramatization of Hindi and English stage plays beside his famous
column on analysis of ‘Drama’ of Delhi’ for a daily newspaper. Jagar a Garhwali
drama organization of Delhi staged Ardhgrameshwar ‘a Garhwali stage play in
Delhi in 1976.
Ardhgrameshwar
‘a Garhwali stage play is about the migrated Garhwalis suggesting the means of
progress in rural Garhwal. For suggestion about progress of village migrated Garhwalis
attend the conference and their suggestions are as per their profession. For
example a poet suggests poetry is the means of progress, a clerk suggest for type
righter as means of progress, a professor suggests speeches as means of
progress of village. At the end women folks from village and cities bring the
real solutions.
There are twenty
main characters in the drama and more than ten other assisting characters.
There are folk songs and folk rites (mantra0 in the drama. The dialogues fit
the characters or characters of the drama. The dialogues are witty and do not
spare anybody.
Realism
is the key of Ardhgrameshwar ‘a Garhwali
stage play. Ardhgrameshwar ‘a Garhwali
stage play got appreciation for its writing and presentation from critics of
non –Garhwalis too. The well known critics of Delhi drama world positioned Rajendra
Dhashmana and Mitra Nand Kukreti as modern most dramatists of India. There were
more than ten shows of Ardhgrameshwar
‘a Garhwali stage play all over India. Rajendra Dhashmana is successful in showing the static or inert mental
position of migrated Garhwalis due to their day to their professional works and
becoming myopic about other issues such as thinking about their native land.
As Europe remembers
Ibsen, Strindberg, Pirandello and Beckett for bring contemporariness in
European modern dramas the Indians appreciate the work of Rajendra Dhashmana and
Mitra Nand Kukreti for bringing contemporariness, present-day issues, and
present topic in the modern Garhwali drama.
Indians will always remember Rajendra
Dhashmana’s Ardhgrameshwar ‘for
bringing contemporariness, present social issues in the dramas of language as Garhwali.
References:
A-Curtsey to Parashar gaur for supplying manuscript of Ardhgrameshwar ‘a Garhwali stage play
1-Dr Anil Dabral,
Garhwali Gady Parampara (Garhwali Dramas from beginning till 1990)
2-Abodh Bandhu
Bahuguna, Gad Myateki Ganga (Garhwali dramas from beginning till 1975)
3-Dr Sudharani,
Garhwal ka Rangmanch (Garhwali Dramas from beginning till 1985)
4-Drama special issue
of Chitthi Patri magazine (Garhwali Dramas and plays staged in Delhi, Karachi,
Mumbai, Dehradun and other places)
5- Dr Hari Datt Bhatt
Shailesh, Garhwali Natak evam Rangmanch: Ek Vihngam Avlokan (Garhwali Drams and
theatres from beginning till 1985)
6-Dr Bhakt Darshan:
Barrister Mukandi Lal Srmriti Granth (Garhwali dramatists or theatres
playwrights till 1985
7-Dr Nand Kishor
Dhoundiyal, Garhwal ki Divangat Vibhutiyan (pp108-116, about contribution of
Bhagwati Prasad Panthri for developing Garhwali drama)
8- Notes on Dramas of Uttarakhand by Parashar gaur –MeraPahad
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Notes on contemporariness
in modern dramas, contemporariness in modern Asian dramas, contemporariness in
modern South Asian dramas, contemporariness in modern SAARC country’s dramas,
contemporariness in modern Indian dramas, contemporariness in modern North
Indian dramas, contemporariness in modern Himalayan dramas, contemporariness in
modern Mid Himalayan dramas, contemporariness in modern Uttarakhandi dramas, contemporariness
in modern Kumauni dramas, contemporariness in modern Garhwali dramas to be
continued…
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