Give me youth with muscles of iron and nerves of steel and I shall change the destiny of the nation”
said Swami Vivekananda, but the children of today, the so called citizens of tomorrow, burdened as they are with heavy loads of work both at school and home end up drained physically, psychologically as well as intellectually. The present play looks at children who are pressurized into total and abject surrender to the whims and fancies of the parents who try to force them to do things which they could not achieve. A child who is supposed to educate himself enjoying the process, today as result of the system and untenable educational policies finds himself at the wits end and the consequences of this could in long term be disastrous. Unrelenting parents, more concerned of their social status than of the child’s welfare, coupled with teachers and schools furthering their commercial objectives, today literally squeeze the life out of the child. The day of an average child is made so busy with endless lessons, tuitions, music classes and what not that the child is not left even with a little time to talk to himself. The end result of all this busy busy lifestyle could lead to dysfunctional tendencies in the child and is actually reflected in the rising numbers of juvenile crimes and juvenile delinquents and more importantly juvenile suicides
The child’s efforts to achieve success in the limited parameters are mocked at by the parents and comparisons are drawn to the vaguest of relatives. The child is pressurized to such an extent that he sees devils in the subjects. The child thus becomes a flower nipped in the bud, even before he could bloom. The strangulated fragrance comes across as an unbearable stench of false parental pride and indulgence. The play tries to show how a child’s life is a never ending cycle of struggles to survive in this world of make believe competition (more in the minds of the parents than actually) and is no less than a dangerous circus feat. But the ironical question is, What do the children achieve after all this . Do they get to study what they want? Do they have a say in the running of their lives? Is their innocence a thing of past? Is their childhood lost somewhere behind the unending and unconquerable heaps of books? These and lot more hard-hitting questions of this sort are sought to be asked of the audience through this play. Just prick your ears and listen to the faint cries of help, listen carefully … they are growing into a crescendo.
CHARACTERS:
ELDER BROTHER (BHAIYA) MASTER SAMEER PATWARI
YOUNGER BROTHER (CHOTU) MASTER VIVEK PAWAR
MUSIC OPERATION: KESHAV DEEPAK
MAKE UP: VIKRAM GANGAPURAM.
TECH SUPPORT: SWATHI, SWETHA, JOSHI, SOWMYA, AILA, K.PRIYA, NIKHIL, CHARAN, KRUSHNA & OTHERS. LIGHTS, SETS & DIRECTION: RAMMOHAN HOLAGUNDI.
Play is Open to All and the entry is Free for all