THEATRE 'Taj Mahal Ka Tender' & 'Jis Lahore Nhi Dekhya O Jamiya Nhi' Hindi Plays at Shri Ram Centre for Performing Arts (SRCPA), 4, Safdar Hashmi Marg > 6pm & 7:30pm on 1st & 2nd October 2016

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6:00 pm Add to Calendar 01/10/2016 18:00 02/10/2016 19:30 Asia/Kolkata THEATRE 'Taj Mahal Ka Tender' Hindi Comedy Play Event Page : http://www.delhievents.com/2016/09/theatre-taj-mahal-ka-tender-jis-lahore.html Shri Ram Centre for Performing Arts (SRCPA), 4, Safdar Hashmi Marg, Mandi House, New Delhi-110001 DD/MM/YYYY : Taj Mahal Ka Tender 
7:30 pm Add to Calendar 01/10/2016 19:30 02/10/2016 21:00 Asia/Kolkata THEATRE 'Jis Lahore Nhi Dekhya O Jamiya Nhi' Hindi Drama Play Event Page : http://www.delhievents.com/2016/09/theatre-taj-mahal-ka-tender-jis-lahore.html Shri Ram Centre for Performing Arts (SRCPA), 4, Safdar Hashmi Marg, Mandi House, New Delhi-110001 DD/MM/YYYY : Jis Lahore Nhi Dekhya O Jamiya Nhi 
Jis-Lahore-Nhi-Dekhya-O-Jamiya-Nhi-Play-StillsDuration : 1 hour 40 mins. 

Entry : By tickets priced at Rs. 500, Rs. 300 &  Rs. 200, Available at : 
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Venue : Shri Ram Centre for Performing Arts (SRCPA), 4, Safdar Hashmi Marg, Mandi House, New Delhi-110001
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Event Description : THEATRE : : IMOI presents the following plays : 

6:00 pm : 'Taj Mahal Ka Tender' Hindi Comedy Play
Written by Ajay Shukla & Directed by: SP Singh Sengar

Taj Mahal ka Tender, a hilarious comedy, which revolves around what would have been the fate of Shahjahan's Taj Mahal, had the Emperor lived in the present times. This is the theme of this Hilarious Burlesque. The persistent Shahjahan, in no mood to accept the excuses for delays, sends the somnolent Government construction department into tizzy.  The engineers and overseers get down to the business of fulfilling the Emperors wish, as if they really could this.  An outbreak of activities ensues but in a typical sarkari manner. Tenders are issued. Contractors are hired but, does the project actually sees the light of the day or if the Mogul Emperor, fast forwarded in present times, becomes a victim of the system himself?  How his beloved Mumtaz reacts to all this?   Whatever may happen to the wonder tomb, but the lofty laughter castles are guaranteed, as the curtain rises on Taj Mahal ka Tender..

7:30 pm : 'Jis Lahore Nhi Dekhya O Jamiya Nhi' Hindi Drama Play
Written by: Asghar Wajahat, & Directed by: SP Singh Sengar

The Drama begins with a Muslim family having suffered painful displacement of partition is migrated from Lucknow to a Haveli vacated by a departing Hindu family in Lahore. They find an old Hindu woman still living in that Haveli.  She refuses to be robbed of her home. This Hindu woman has lost her son and family in the riots that followed the partition of nation in 1947. The play is set in the city of Lahore and around the time of the partition.  Many lives were lost and many families were separated overnight and despite the passage of more than sixty two years, those wounds are still fresh. The play deals with this delicate subject very sensitively. The play focuses on a Muslim family, the Mirza’s from Lucknow, who flee to Lahore after the partition takes place.  They were allotted a Haveli erstwhile owned by a famous Hindu Jeweller’s family, who was probably killed in the carnage. However, their matriarch "Mai' (old Hindu lady) still survives, and continues living in the Haveli, unnoticed by the looting goons, when the Mirza’s arrive.  A clash over the ownership of the Haveli ensues, and gradually the entire neighbourhood gets involved. In the end, "Mai' wins over the Mirza family and other neighbour’s affection.  They all with the help of their Poet neighbour and the local Priest (who preaches a tolerant Islam), rally around her and protect her from the local goons. There are many serious questions raised by this play.  The biggest being, was all the bloodshed and trauma of the partition necessary or even justified?   The audience gets haunted by this thought.

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