"Nehru: His Inner Story" English Play at Epicentre, Sec-44, Gurgaon > 7:30pm on 3rd July 2011

Time : 7:30 pm

Entry : Tickets of Rs.700 & Rs.500 available from 25th June onwards, 5pm – 8pm. For

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Place : Epicentre, Apparel House, Sector 44, Opp. Power Grid Residential Complex, Gurgaon

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Event Details : 'Nehru: His Inner Story' English Play.

Behind the roar of the masses we hear Nehru’s private story… in his own words...revealing his own truth.

An Arts and Old World Culture presentation.

All of us are familiar with Nehru, the freedom fighter, the man alongside Mahatma Gandhi, at all times focused towards setting India free, as famous outside India as he was within/ Yet how many of us have looked eneath the skin of this man, felt his pulse throb with pain and passion; seen the lonely man behind the adulation of crowds. A man at ease with ladies, literature and laughter. A man trapped by his destiny as an Indian leader yet at all times a thorough British gentlemen. 

In this his play, Jawaharlal: His Inner Story I have given Jawaharlal his license to talk. To reveal the real man behind the politician. What is more, the thoughts and feelings spring from the man himself; they have been culled largely from the vast amount of personal revelation that lies embedded in his many writings.

You will be amazed at his command of language. No longer is Nehru our remote first Prime Minister; he is a living breathing man who will hold the audience hypnotised. Unashamedly, like an onion, Nehru will unpeel himself and allow you to form your own personal definition of the man. There are many vignettes that allow you to glimpse the days of solitary imprisonment with birds; his playfulness with children, his exhilaration on Independence, his despair at Gandhi’s death, his bonding with the ladies in his life: his daughter, Indira; his wife, Kamala; his close friend, Sarojini Naidu and Edwina Mountbatten towards whom his lonely and loving heart reached out, and at whose sea burial he sent the navy with flowers to cast upon the waters.

Throughout these momentous events of his life there is a background buzz of the politics of the time, noises of an awakening land, adulatory yet acrimonious, a new unstable India that this aristocratic man is trying to understand and govern. Finally, he tries his best to substitute the English gentleman in him, by choosing a successor in Lal Bahadur Shastri who is, for him, the man for the ‘real India’.

Did he plant his footsteps in the sand? History can be unforgiving. As the Chinese invasion throngs the mountain slopes of his beloved Himalayas, an ageing Nehru admits with telling pathos his errors in judgment. He who saw his India into a new future, missed out oncoming sign posts.

Basically the script of the play is a monologue but it is peopled with ‘virtual’ characters who appear on the

stage as his memories: Sarojini Naidu, Kamala, Indira, Edwina and Lord Mountbatten and even his joy, baby Rahul.

Nehru being a poetry and music lover, the play will allow you to share his joy of both, as scenes flow from

one pocket full of memories to another.

Was he great? Form your own views. During his funeral procession, a little before noon, an earthquake

shook Delhi.

Language : English

Duration : 90 mins

Director & Writer : Pramila Le Hunte

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