Sunday, September 12, 2010

Jisne Lahore na dekhyan

Jisne Lahore Na dekhya is a guilty play, with a little bit of thackeray in it. They make you stand at the end with the Indian National Anthem. A trifle of an irony for a play which is completely set in Lahore. I would have preferred the Pakistani national anthem.

The levels where I enjoyed it were the interplay of punjabi and Urdu. Somewhere I had read that Urdu was a normal language till just before freedom and was taught in schools just like Hindi and English are. But post Independence, it was systematically eliminated. 

The interplay of images using a projector was also I believe wasted.

But I did like the stage, and the play with illumination/lighting.

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