New Delhi: An idealist son pitted against a materialist father; and two dejected lovers looking for peace in a world hit by meaningless violence – two different stories written by legendary writer Khwaja Ahmed Abbas were staged today to wide acclaim at the Urdu Drama Festival.
The six-day festival being presented by Delhi Government’s Department of Art, Culture & Languages in association with the Urdu Academy is paying tribute to Abbas and Qudsia Zaidi, the pioneer of Hindustani theater.
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The third day of the festival saw a stage presentation of two different stories of Khwaja Ahmed Abbas under the banner of ‘Abbas ke Do Rang’ highlighting his versatility and his socialist leanings as a story teller. The first story, “My Son Is My Enemy”, revolved around a lawyer who transforms from a revolutionary freedom fighter into a wealth and power chasing professional, and finds himself pitted against his idealist son, who still stands for his father’s lost ideals. The second presentation “Ajanta” is a story of two lovers who flee the brutal partition violence in Bombay and fed up with senseless killing all around find solace and peace in the artistic brilliance of the caves of Ajanta.
Presented by ‘Three Arts Club’, one of Delhi’s oldest theatre groups, and directed by Amitabh Srivastava, a graduate from the National School of Drama the presentation juxtaposed the two stories of Abbas and the common thread of Idealism running through them.
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