Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Mar 9: Balwant Thakur’s Hindi play ‘Nashe Ki Aag’ was staged here today at Rani Park under the direction of Neeraj Kant.
The play was staged in connection with the anti-drug campaign organised by J&K Academy of Art, Culture and Languages.
As an experiment, multiple stories were woven in the play by the playwright focusing the spread of drug menace like a fire, taking the toll of the important workforce of the country.
A young boy is shown struggling for a good company after passing school and making an entry to the college. He is isolated for not being a consumer of intoxicants. All those around him treat him like a child and this frustrates him. To prove that he is a young man, he consumes a variety of intoxicants.
In another sequence, in a rural inhabitation particularly the men-folk is shown drowned in the menace of alcohol. All the miseries of the village like poverty, domestic violence and ailments are attributed to the growing consumption of alcohol.
In a sequence, a villager is shown, who consumes his daily earnings for alcohol. Having drunk he lost his way home and a local escorts him to his place where in the middle of the night the drunken man starts beating his sleeping wife and kids. When the escort intervenes to save the poor lady and children, the drunkard blames him for having bad intentions towards his wife.
Actors who performed in the play were Neeraj Kant, Vishal Sharma, Kushal Bhat, Kartik Kumar, Arjun Sharma, Aadesh Dhar, Lovish and Kananpreet Kaur.
