Manav Kaul’s Play Park on identity politics is getting stronger 18 years after the first staging

park The present time is relevant – when urbanization is encroaching in spaces, when ethnic groups are being targeted and when immigrants are being forced by struggles. Written and directed by Manav Kaul, the play was recently performed at Kamini Auditorium in New Delhi. It included Shubrajyoti Barat, Sumate Vyas and Gopal Dutt.

The play revolves around three men – each suffering from one mourning or another. They reach a separate park in a afternoon, who try to pass time in some peace and calm, but each claimed themselves on an occupied bench. Three benches in the park face the same direction and provide the same view. And three men take it for all park To highlight the human to use control over space and its story.

What begins as a light-hearted regional banquet increases with inequality. A quarrel in a shared public place turns into an investigation into space politics – its access or refusal.

The play asks the question – what does it mean to have a complete and equal membership in a society? What does someone separate someone’s claim or authority as better than another? Which is more than a place – the native who has gone out, or a migrant who lives there for a long time; The language that can speak or that contributes to finance and stature; One who studied there or who works there; Which shares a history with that place or whose future depends on it?

Shubjayoti plays the role of a government official for a strict requirement of the afternoon nap, and therefore, is bent on getting the only sweet place under the shadow in the park. He agrees that space is a timeless issue and migration, which is an old event from history.

Manav Kaul says, “It seems strange that when I was writing a drama in 2007, things that bother me now are more relevant than coming back. I don’t think it is a good sign for society, country or world.” Asked whether there is any message he wants to give to the audience, Manav Kaul says, “My writing is a reaction that I see – the things I read, the things I give importance to.” He believes that writing is a by-product of reality and its dissatisfaction. ,

Manav Kaul | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement

In the writing of Manava, intelligence and humor, though not subtle, is not lost. This ‘curious’ should be in the age-old trop of strangers, promoting publicity or increasing individual limits continuously.

Sumit, Vyas, who plays a displaced law graduate, says, “You can laugh at the drama, but give it an enough idea and you realize that it is a reflection of a sad reality”. His character demands that criminals be displaced in turn – demanded justice in equal proportions of injustice. As Sumit explains, “This reflects human behavior – three people in a park fight at an ‘ideal’ place when three benches are available and they can sit anywhere comfortably.” However, he wonders if the play will ever be irrelevant and adds: “Even if we keep performing it for the rest of our life, these problems will remain.”

It does not matter that sociologists such as zigimant bomans argue for the liquidity of modern life, the idea of body politics will never come into existence. There is identity and a spontaneous case of debate will remain. park Protects the art of politically and culturally conscious story. It is conscious of crises at all levels – regional, national and global – and sympathy, though, behaves in a judicious manner. A reflection, and reminiscent of the fact that politics is an undisputed part of human life, quotes or otherwise.