CHANDIGARH: City-based theatre group 'Theater house' on Monday staged a play titled '
Gharan De Jinde
' at Tagore Theatre, Sector 18.
The play, narrated in
Punjabi
has been written by
Gurchet Chitarkar, a renowned Punjabi sit-com writer, who has travelled all across India and abroad to perform. The play has been directed by actor-director
Dilawar Sidhu, who also starred in the 2016 Bollywood film 'Udta Punjab'. The plot of the play revolves around an old-age home, full of senior citizens who have been thrown out of their homes by their children. They continue to live their lives in extreme grief and in the hope of their children taking them back.
The narrative focuses on an old couple, left in the old age home by their sons with a promise of returning someday, paints a poignant picture of the naked truth of contemporary times and the diminishing levels of compassion in parent-child relationships.
To support the strong performances of the cast, live background music, with an undertone of sadness has been used in the play to keep the viewer hooked onto the flow of the narrative, heavy on intense dialogues and narration. The play was appreciated by the audience. The duration of the play was 1 hour 25 minutes.
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