‘Jis Lahore Nai Dekhya O Jameya Nai’ Play at Shri Ram Centre

EFT Report, New Delhi: The play is set in the city of Lahore around the times of partition. Families and lives were torn apart overnight and although sixty two years have passed, the wounds are still fresh. The play deals with the subject sensitively. The play focusses on the Muslim family, Mirzas from Lucknow, who flee to Lahore after the partition. They have been allotted the ‘haveli’ by a Hindu family who were probably killed in the carnage.

However, their matriarch ‘Mai’ (old Hindu lady) still survives and is living in the ‘haveli’ when the Mirzas arrive. A clash over the ownership of ‘haveli’ ensues and the entire neighborhood gets was all the bloodshed and trauma of the times necessary or even justified? Involved. In the end ‘Mai’ wins over the family’s affections and with their poet neighbor and local priest (who preaches tolerant Islam) they rally around her and protect her from local thug.

‘Jis Lahore Nai Dekhya O Jameya Nai’ Play 

There are many serious questions raised by the play; for instance, was all the bloodshed and trauma of the times necessary or even justified?

Date & Time: May 4, 2013; 7 pm

Venue: Shri Ram Centre, 4, Safdar Hashmi Marg, New Delhi, 110001

Tickets: Rs 200-500

Language: Hindi

Director: Anil Sharma

Length: 2 hrs

Cast & Crew: Daksh Vashisht, Deepak Chaudhary, Jugnu, Rajiv Sharma, Monika Misra, Rishabh Parshar, Anil Sharma, Suresh Solankni, Gaurav Sharma

Genre: Play