Mizaaj-e-Manto
Play
1.5 hrs
October 16, 2016 8:00 pm Sunday
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Saadat Hasan Manto's two short plays

  1. KHOL DO “Khol Do” is one of the most famous and controversial stories by writer Saadat Hasan Manto (1912-1955) . It is one of the masterpiece depicting the effects of violence during the partition of India on the people of the land. But unlike many others, Manto does not see the perpetrators as Hindu or Muslim, Hindustanis or Pakistanis, he just sees and depicts them as human beings with all their wilderness and barbarity.

  2. THANDA GOSHT Thanda Gosht is a non-fiction short story written by Saadat Hasan Manto.

The story is about the communal violence of 1947. Ishwar Singh, a Sikh fails to make love to his mistress Kalwant. She suspects him of infidelity and in a fit of jealousy stabs him with his own dagger. While dying, Ishwar Singh admits his crime getting involved in riots which broke in his village killing a Muslim family with same dagger and abducting a Muslim girl after breaking in their house and attempting rape with her.

Organizer
Darpan Theatre
DARPAN Theatre was started in 2012 by a group of friends working in different sectors to follow their passion for acting and to use this art to create awareness about different unseen aspects of society. As debut, team has staged hard hitting play which is not so known to many of us, the life of DEVDASI in the SKITS competition organized by DRAMANON, Hyderabad in August’ 2012 and bagged first prize by judges choice. Since then, team has performed multiple plays of different genre via various theatre formats as required. We always try to bring performances with social message to spread the awareness about the subject we take in the play. Our moto is to "Spread awareness through art and entertainment".