When lawyers staged some lawful lessons in Lucknow

A

play

titled Dhara

498 A

was recently staged at Kala Mandapam. As the title suggests, the play was based on the pros and cons of

Section 498 A

of the Indian Penal Code. Under this act, a person is punished for 3 years of imprisonment or more if he or his relatives impose any threat to his wife. The play mainly focused on how the act can be misused by some. The interesting part about the play was that a large percentage of the cast comprised

lawyers

and the rest too were from the same fraternity.

Prabhat Lahiri and Madhu Singh in a scene from the play (BCCL/ Vishnu Jaiswal)
The chief guest at the play was

Justice Chandra Dhari Singh

of the Allahabad High Court and the guest of honour was

theatre

veteran

Surya Mohan Kulshreshtha

. The play was directed by Swatantra Kale and was written by

Vijai Krishna

, an advocate who also played a character in it.

(L) Dr Jayanti Srivastava (R) Ram Kumar and Sameer Srivastava (BCCL/ Vishnu Jaiswal)
“This is our third show; we did our first show back in 2016 and the second one in the previous year. The audience here was really patient. It was a lengthy play of about two hours and I appreciate the fact that they watched the full play,” said Vijai.

Jai Prakash Narain Tiwari (L) and Masood Ali (BCCL/ Vishnu Jaiswal)

(L) Chandra Dhari Singh (R) Yashraj Singh and Narendra Panjwani (BCCL/ Vishnu Jaiswal)

(L) Lalit Tiwari (R) Yogesh Mishra and Amit (BCCL/ Vishnu Jaiswal)