Chronicle Reporter, Bhopal, Comedy play ‘Haye Mera Dil’ marked the culmination of four-day Dinesh Thakur Memorial theatre festival at Shaheed Bhavan Auditorium here on Saturday. The play was performed by the artists of Anveshan Theatre troupe of Sagar under direction of Jagdish Sharma.
A man finds out that he will soon die. This discovery is followed by a series of hilarious situations that make audience laugh their hearts out. The play was a satire on society that showed how fantasies can bring catastrophe in a person’s life.
The play’s story revolves around a man Madan. Madan is a big time prey of hallucinations and false notions. He believes whatever bad and dangerous is happening around him is just happening for him. He is specially affected with hallucinations of different diseases.
For example, if a person will sneeze in front of him, Madan will begin to think that he is also suffering with cough and cold. One fine day, Madan’s friend who is Madan’s family doctor as well, tells Madan about a severe heart disease.
Dr Ghosh, Madan’s friend tells him that one of his patients is suffering with a heart disease and thus will live for a short period of time. Listening to this, Madan thought that he will live only for a shorter period of time and will die soon. Under this fake notion, he worries about his wife.
His fears keep playing on his mind, making him wonder about how his wife would survive his demise. So, he starts planning his wife’s marriage, as he believes she is very foolish, although she is not, at all. When he finds his wife’s old friend and college batch mate has come to meet her, he starts day-dreaming about getting her hitched with her friend.
He starts pretending to be ill most of the time and sends them off to watch movies together without him. But his plans of getting his wife involved with someone else fail disastrously as the wife starts suspecting her husband is having an affair with someone else pretending to be ill.
The wife confronts her husband with her suspicions, but the husband denies and tells her the ‘truth’ about his disease and the little time he is left with.
She believes him, but, again, as another heart check-up turns out to be normal, it strengthens his wife’s suspicions about his fidelity. The play ends on a happy note after several swift comic turns of events.
