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Wednesday, March 31, 1999

Zafarnama falls short of Daman's calibre

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CHANDIGARH, March 30: The play has been staged before but when it came back to the Punjab Kala Bhawan this evening, it was not up to the mark of director Devinder Daman's previous production `Chippon to Pehla'. Nevertheless the saving grace of today's play, `Zafarnama', turned out to be Daman's son Ripudaman, though he had a very brief role as that of Daya Singh, the carrier of the letter from Guru Gobind Singh to Aurangzeb.

It was the last of the programmes organised by the Punjab Sangeet Natak Academy to usher in the tercentenary year of Sikhism as the previous evenings had seen musical programmes. `Zafarnama', written by Charanjit Singh, centres around the realisation that dawned on Aurangzeb about the cruelties unleashed on the Sikhs by his deputies in Punjab culminating in the killing of the Guru's two sons. With Daman himself acting as the Emperor and wife Jaswinder as Zeenat, along with Gurki and Anita in supporting role, the play lacked in pace, spacing and involvement.

Copyright © 1998 Indian Express Newspapers (Bombay) Ltd.


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