5/16/2023 0 Comments Another word for choosyHe and his son – younger than his scandalous sister – tried to convince her to forget him, but unable to do so, the duo hit her on her head. In the second monologue the respectable Ujagar Singh, a high caste Jatt, now in jail for killing his daughter, recalls the agonising ordeal his life became ever since his younger daughter “Choti” arrived into the world and how his honourable dream crumbled ever since she set eyes on a low caste boy. ![]() In an act of rebellion she decides to vest the final word with her. In the first act ‘Pasand’, Mandeep Ghai – an eternal reject by prospective grooms, is at receiving end of ridicule and chiding from her parents who blame her for not being liked by the nice, choosy men. It’s a story of the evils lurking within our villages and cities – among the elite and rustic alike. ![]() A young girl haunted with rejections while seeking a matrimonial alliance a highly respectable, flower-fearing man- a daughter-murderer – the kind who ‘innocently’ prays to God to grant him strength to kill his own daughter for loving a lower caste an abandoned woman-ridiculed, lusted after, burdened with work and then asked to seek refuge in God after having forsaken at the altar of matrimony and a child-bearing machine – a woman forced to mass produce kids until she produces a male – suiting her family – constitute the four lead protagonists of the explosive play “Eh Gallan kade Fer Karange” staged during the ongoing KL Saigal Punjabi Rang Utsav held in the city.ĭirected by Kewal Dhaliwal, the play written by Swarajbir hits at the very core of the ills of Punjab – loaded with satire – it unveils layer after layer of patriarchy even as the audience twitches and the women empathise.
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