Aunsi ki Rat: A Garhwali Drama about Fighting for Human Rights by Untouchables

(Review of a Garhwali Drama ‘Aunsi ki Rat’ written by Parashar Gaur and Directed by Gaur)

    Notes on Dramas about Fighting for Human Rights by Untouchables; Asian Dramas about Fighting for Human Rights by Untouchables; South Asian Dramas about Fighting for Human Rights by Untouchables; SAARC Countries Dramas about Fighting for Human Rights by Untouchables; Indian subcontinent Dramas about Fighting for Human Rights by Untouchables; Indian Dramas about Fighting for Human Rights by Untouchables; North Indian Dramas about Fighting for Human Rights by Untouchables; Himalayan Dramas about Fighting for Human Rights by Untouchables;  Mid Himalayan Dramas about Fighting for Human Rights by Untouchables; Uttarakhandi Dramas about Fighting for Human Rights by Untouchables; Kumauni   Dramas about Fighting for Human Rights by Untouchables; Garhwali Dramas about Fighting for Human Rights by Untouchables      

                                     Bhishma Kukreti

                       Parashar gaur claims that ‘Aunsi ki Rat’ is first Garhwali full stage drama and this is the first Garhwali drama wherein female artists performed for the female characters too. Before, ‘Aunsi ki Rat’, male artists used to perform female characters in Garhwali dramas.

                        Initially this Garhwali drama ‘Aunsi ki Rat’ takes the subject of human rights of the untouchables. However, on later stage the drama turns taking the subject of individual fights between uncle and nephew for the small land and an untouchable woman fighting for her honor as the society spreads rumor about her relationship with her brother in law. There are selfish acts by Bith or upper caste class that the untouchables fight among themselves and can’t think about their human rights.

   The subject of untouchables was revolutionary in seventies and the drama definitely, was ‘need of the hour’.

Devu an untouchable has to fight for his rights with three fronts and dramatists could show effectively his problems for fighting with three vital fronts.

       The biggest flaw in the drama is that the writer tries to take three vital subjects of society in a single drama. This desire of writer Gaur makes the drama inconclusive for the audience.

  Devu an untouchable has to fight for his rights with three fronts and dramatists could show effectively his problems for fighting with three vital fronts.

    The dialogues are from day-to-day life of average Garhwali inhabitants of rural Garhwal. Gaur used man absurd sentences (rojmara ki Gali wale vaky) usually used in daily talk in Garhwal.

References:

A-Curtsey to Parashar Gaur for supplying manuscripts of Garhwali stage plays

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 site

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    Notes on Dramas about Fighting for Human Rights by Untouchables; Asian Dramas about Fighting for Human Rights by Untouchables; South Asian Dramas about Fighting for Human Rights by Untouchables; SAARC Countries Dramas about Fighting for Human Rights by Untouchables; Indian subcontinent Dramas about Fighting for Human Rights by Untouchables; Indian Dramas about Fighting for Human Rights by Untouchables; North Indian Dramas about Fighting for Human Rights by Untouchables; Himalayan Dramas about Fighting for Human Rights by Untouchables;  Mid Himalayan Dramas about Fighting for Human Rights by Untouchables; Uttarakhandi Dramas about Fighting for Human Rights by Untouchables; Kumauni   Dramas about Fighting for Human Rights by Untouchables; Garhwali Dramas about Fighting for Human Rights by Untouchables   to be continued…