Andolan: An Experimental Garhwali Drama about Separate Uttarakhand Movement
Bhishma Kukreti
In public, Parashar Gaud is more famous for his first Garhwali film Jagwal. However, Parashar Gaud had been a prominent Garhwali drama personality in Delhi. Parashar Gaud was the backbone of the Garhwali drama world in Delhi. There is no Garhwali drama taker in Delhi after Parashar Gaud left Delhi for Canada. Parashar was a true Garhwali drama activist as a drama writer, as a performer, as director and as producer.
Parashar Gaud wrote an experimental Garhwali drama ‘Andolan’ based on a separate Uttarakhand movement. It seems that Parashar wrote this experimental drama as street drama or ‘Nukkad Natak’. There are numerous characters in the experimental and street drama ‘Andolan’. There are numerous plots and many subplots in the Garhwali experimental and street drama ‘Andolan’. The experimental and street drama ‘Andolan’ deals with many important reasons for the need for a separate Uttarakhand state. There are contemporary incidents such as March in Delhi by movement activist, death of Veer Chandra Singh Garhwali, interview of a reporter with Chandra sing Garhwali, comments about Hemvati Nandan Bahuguna, election, and election slogans, opportunist political and social leaders in Delhi and Uttar Pradesh and in Uttarakhand and many more well-known incidents in this experimental and street Garhwali drama ‘Andolan’.
Street dramas are a very good means of communication for every community. There was a vacuum for street dramas in the Garhwali drama world. Parashar Gaud fulfills the gap by providing experimental and street drama ‘Andolan’.
The main characteristics of a street drama are that it should have a theme for the social cause and it should be in a regional language only.
The drama ‘Andolan’ is an experimental drama for the Garhwali language in the sense that it is totally non-conventional in form and style. Parashar Gaud used the style of Jamure and Ustad style as the folk dramatists perform in the streets of urban or rural areas.
In an interview with this writer, Parashar gaud states that the experimental and street Garhwali drama ‘Andolan’ is a tribute to experimental theatre writers Arun kakde, Richard Maxwell, Satya Dev Dube, Antonin Artaud, Rajendra Dhashmana, Carmelo Bene, Dinesh Thakur, Bertolt Brecht, Vijay Mehta, Girish Karnad, Dario Fo, Luigi Pirandello, Vijay Tendulkar, Samuel Becket,Arvind Deshpande, Isabelle Junot , Sulbha Deshpane, Young Jeen Le, Shankar Shesh, C.P.Deshpande , Meng Jinghui , and other playwrights of experimental dramas.
Curtsey: Parashar Gaud for supplying original manuscript of an experimental and street Garhwali drama
References:
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)
Copyright@ Bhishm Kukreti
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