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Sunpat: an Ironic and Witty Short Garhwali Drama

(Review of Very short Garhwali Drama ‘Sunpat’ (2002) written by Playwright Kula Nand Ghansala)

 
                                                                Bhishma Kukreti
                Dr. Narendra Gauniyal, Bhishma Kukreti, and Om Prakash Semwal wrote short dramas that are useful as fillers in a cultural program or any other functions. However, Kula Nand Ghansala and Om Prakash Semwal dramas wrote and staged more short dramas in Garhwali than all. 
          ‘Sunpat’ is a very entertaining short drama s filler. An old man (bada) is semi deaf and the postman brings money orders for him. Postman asks the old man a question but the old man answers differently and each answer of the old man has two meanings. Both the meanings are humorous and ironic. The answers create satire and laughter together. The questions and comments of the postman also create laughter.
   The drama is very entertaining and definitely humorous.

Reference- Sunpat, 2002 souvenir of Akhil Gadhwal Sabha , Dehradun, page 150-152
Copyright@ Bhishma Kukreti, 16.6.2012

Complaint: A Garhwali Drama Portraying Rotting, Worsening Education System in Rural Garhwal

(Review of Garhwali drama ‘Complaint’ (2000) written by playwright Kula Nand Ghansala)

                                                 Bhishma Kukreti



            There are dramas, and films written or produced everywhere about the worsening education system. For example, ‘Detachment’ film portrays various aspects of the worsening education system. Daniel Appiah-Adjei wrote in a blog ( http://oralvillageideas.blogspot.in/2011/10/article-examination-malpractices.html) about Examination Malpractices with a satirical tone.  There are many satirical articles written in Garhwali about the worsening education system by Bhishma Kukreti and other satirists.
     Kula Nand Ghansala wrote a very fine short drama ‘Complaint’ in Garhwali. The short drama deals with the aspects of only one teacher and students of five classes and how the teacher defies all the noble practices of the teacher.  When the guardian complains about his careless duties, the teacher says to the complainer what he wants to do. However, the teacher is shocked to find the reality. 
  The drama is written with a more humorous style than satirical methods. The dialogues are common in rural Garhwal. The audience will laugh by listening to dialogues of drama but then there is a pain too just after every laugh.

Copyright@ Bhishma Kukreti, 18/6/20012
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गिरते शिक्षा स्तर सम्बन्धित नाटक ;गिरते शिक्षा स्तर सम्बन्धित गढ़वाली नाटक ;गिरते शिक्षा स्तर सम्बन्धित उत्तराखंडी नाटक ;गिरते शिक्षा स्तर सम्बन्धित मध्य हिमालयी नाटक ;गिरते शिक्षा स्तर सम्बन्धित हिमालयी नाटक ;गिरते शिक्षा स्तर सम्बन्धित उत्तर भारतीय नाटक ;गिरते शिक्षा स्तर सम्बन्धित भारतीय नाटक ;गिरते शिक्षा स्तर सम्बन्धित सार्क देसिय नाटक ;गिरते शिक्षा स्तर सम्बन्धित दक्षिण एशियाई नाटक ;गिरते शिक्षा स्तर सम्बन्धित एशियाई नाटक लेखमाला जारी ....

Ramu Patrol: A Garhwali Awareness Drama about Forest Need, Deforestation, Forestation, Forest Protection and Protecting Eco-System

(Review of a Garhwali Drama ‘Ramu Patrol’ (1998) by playwright@ Kula Nand Ghansala)

                                   Bhishma Kukreti



     At the time of the Garhwali King, there was less conflict between government agencies and villagers about the use of forest and forest products in Garhwal.  However, with the forest administration regulation by Trail (1826), the conflict between villagers and the administration started.  Later on, Tehri Garhwal king also started regulating the village land into government land for forests the conflict in Tehri Riyasat became evident. 
  The conflicts between villagers and the government for forest use by people, malpractices by the selfish interest for forest products, and fire in the forest by intentional, unintentional or ignorance had been there from the day  Trail brought forest regulation. There had been the questions from that day that what are the best ways to defuse the conflicts that forests develop and people e get their dues too.
    The Drama ‘Ramu Patrol’ (1998) tries to answer some of the questions. Uttarakhand Forest department Gopeshwar staged the awareness Drama about Forest needs, Deforestation, Forestation, Forest Protection, and Protecting the Eco-System in 1998 in Gopeshwar.  Ganesh Bhatt and Abbal Singh Khatri directed ‘Ramu Patrol’ drama about forest needs, deforestation, forestation, forest protection, and protecting the eco-system.
  There are incidents about the need for the forest produces for the needy ones, there incidents of need of forest for income for the poor class, there are events of people who believe government should not own the forest, there is forest mafia taking benefits of conflicts between governing agencies and villagers and there is worries in the forest department to keep forest developing and at the same time people should be satisfied too by getting benefits of developed and protected forests.
  Though the drama is for an awareness program Ghanshala uses his dramatic capability in choosing the events, incidents, and proper dialogues that drama does not look like preaching drama but the audience enjoys the drama. 

Copyright@ Bhishma Kukreti, 20/6/2012

Notes on Stage Plays- Dramas for awareness about Forest Need, Deforestation, Forestation, Forest Protection and Protecting Eco-System; Garhwali Dramas for awareness about Forest Need, Deforestation, Forestation, Forest Protection and Protecting Eco-System; Uttarakhandi Dramas for awareness about Forest Need, Deforestation, Forestation, Forest Protection and Protecting Eco-System; Mid Himalayan Dramas for awareness about Forest Need, Deforestation, Forestation, Forest Protection and Protecting Eco-System; Himalayan Dramas for awareness about Forest Need, Deforestation, Forestation, Forest Protection and Protecting Eco-System; North Indian Dramas for awareness about Forest Need, Deforestation, Forestation, Forest Protection and Protecting Eco-System; Indian Dramas for awareness about Forest Need, Deforestation, Forestation, Forest Protection and Protecting Eco-System; Indian Dramas for awareness about Forest Need, Deforestation, Forestation, Forest Protection and Protecting Eco-System to be continued…
वन दोहन, वनों से लोगो की आवश्यकता, वन संचालन, वन बचाओ जागरण नाटक; वन दोहन, वनों से लोगो की आवश्यकता, वन संचालन, वन बचाओ जागरण गढ़वाली नाटक;वन दोहन, वनों से लोगो की आवश्यकता, वन संचालन, वन बचाओ जागरण उत्तराखंडी नाटक;वन दोहन, वनों से लोगो की आवश्यकता, वन संचालन, वन बचाओ जागरण मध्य हिमालयी नाटक;वन दोहन, वनों से लोगो की आवश्यकता, वन संचालन, वन बचाओ जागरण हिमालयी नाटक;वन दोहन, वनों से लोगो की आवश्यकता, वन संचालन, वन बचाओ जागरण उत्तर भारतीय नाटक;वन दोहन, वनों से लोगो की आवश्यकता, वन संचालन, वन बचाओ जागरण भारतीय नाटक;वन दोहन, वनों से लोगो की आवश्यकता, वन संचालन, वन बचाओ जागरण एशियाई नाटक लेखमाला जारी ....

Garibee: a Garhwali Stage Play about You get what You Sow

(Review of a Garhwali Short Stage Play ‘Garibee’ (1992) written by playwright@ Om Prakash Semwal) 

                                  Bhishma Kukreti

   Garhwali fiction writer and poet Om Prakash Semwal wrote the short play ‘Garibee ‘for the school-going students. The play was staged in Chopta in 1992.
   The short Garhwali stage play is about the spread and the bad effects of alcoholism in Garhwal (Gham asta Garhwal mast).
  Envied by the rich position of Nartu, Bhadu also starts a country liquor business. Instead of sending school, Bhadu involves his son Gwabrya in the liquor business. Bhadu usually beats Gwabrya for his mistakes. One day Gwabrya takes the cruelest step against his father’s beating.
  The play takes two subjects together alcoholism is because the older generation for appreciating alcohol consumption before the children and takes children into the alcohol business. Another implicit story is that what you sow you will get the same.
    The stage play or short drama ‘Garibee’ is written for morality teaching but morality is implicit in the stage play and there are no preaching speeches at all. The drama is successful in preaching against alcoholism and also teaches better ways of parenting too.
  Om Prakash Semwal uses simple dialogues keeping in mind the children as the audience. The dialogues are from day to day life of rural Garhwal.

Copyright@ Bhishma Kukreti, 21/6/2012
Notes on short Stage plays about parenting and anti liquor consumption; short Garhwali Stage plays about parenting and anti liquor consumption; short Uttarakhandi Stage plays about parenting and anti liquor consumption; short Mid Himalayan Stage plays about parenting and anti liquor consumption; short Himalayan Stage plays about parenting and anti liquor consumption; short North Indian Stage plays about parenting and anti liquor consumption; short Indian Stage plays about parenting and anti liquor consumption; short South Asian Stage plays about parenting and anti liquor consumption; short Asian Stage plays about parenting and anti liquor consumption to be continued…
शराब बंदी सम्बन्धी लघु नाटक, शराब बंदी सम्बन्धी लघु गढवाली नाटक,शराब बंदी सम्बन्धी लघु उत्तराखंडी नाटक,शराब बंदी सम्बन्धी लघु मध्य हिमालयी नाटक,शराब बंदी सम्बन्धी लघु हिमालयी नाटक,शराब बंदी सम्बन्धी लघु उत्तर भारतीय नाटक,
शराब बंदी सम्बन्धी लघु भारतीय नाटक,शराब बंदी सम्बन्धी लघु दक्षिण एशियाई नाटक,शराब बंदी सम्बन्धी लघु एशियाई नाटक लेखमाला जारी .....

Daiju: A short Garhwali Drama creating Awareness against Dowry or Evil of dowry 

(Review of a short Garhwali drama ‘Daiju’ (1994) written by Om Prakash Semwal)     

                                                 Bhishma Kukreti     

  There was no forced dowry system in the Vedic era, Mahabharata era, or even in the Gupta era in India. It is a complex subject to find the initiating period of forced dowry in marriages. Before independence, there was just the opposite custom that the boy’s parents had to offer money for the bride in Garhwal.
 Worldwide there are many dramas, and stage plays against dowry or showing the bad effects of dowry on society as ‘The Fatal Dowry (1632, English), The dowry (a TV drama, 1953), Kalankani (Bengali drama), Ho Uzo Kedna Paloutolo (Goan) , Audal, Swayambar  (Garhwali dramas) , Dahej ki Ag(Haryanavi), etc.
    Om Prakash Semwal wrote a drama ‘Daiju’ that creates awareness of the evil of dowry. The drama is idealistic and written for students. ‘Daiju’ is staged in 1994 in (Old) Chamoli Garhwal.  The drama has simple dialogues and is the straight plot with less of figurative dialogue.
 There are less characters that students can stage the play showing evils of dowry.
 


Copyright@ Bhishma Kukreti, 23/6/2012

 Notes on Dramas, stage plays against Dowry; Garhwali Dramas, stage plays against Dowry;  Uttarakhandi Dramas, stage plays against Dowry;   Asian Dramas, stage plays against Dowry; South Asian Dramas, stage plays against Dowry; SAARC Countries Dramas, stage plays against Dowry;  Indian subcontinent Dramas, stage plays against Dowry; Indian Dramas, stage plays against Dowry; North Indian Dramas, stage plays against Dowry; Dramas, stage plays against Dowry; Mid Himalayan Dramas, stage plays against Dowry; Himalayan Dramas, stage plays against Dowry   
दहेज़ विरोधी नाटक; दहेज़ विरोधी गढ़वाली नाटक; दहेज़ विरोधी कुमाउनी नाटक; दहेज़ विरोधी उत्तराखंडी नाटक; दहेज़ विरोधी मध्य हिमालयी नाटक; दहेज़ विरोधी हिमालयी नाटक; दहेज़ विरोधी उत्तर भारतीय नाटक; दहेज़ विरोधी भारतीय नाटक; दहेज़ विरोधी भारतीय उप महाद्वीपीय नाटक; दहेज़ विरोधी सार्क देशीय नाटक; दहेज़ विरोधी दक्षिण एशियाई नाटक; दहेज़ विरोधी एशियाई नाटक; दहेज़ विरोधी अंग्रेजी नाटकलेखमाला जारी .....