Chronicle Reporter, Bhopal, Play “Juliet of Jugnu” was staged at Ravindra Bhavan on Thursday, taunted on social evils of the society including Honor killing for the sake of false glory, discrimination between upper and lower caste. This play has been prepared by getting the inspiration from famous playwright William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet.
The writers of the play are Bishna Chauhan and Waseem Khan and the direction of the play is given by the latter. Around 23 artistes including Ansh Payan Sinha, Priya Bhadouria, Jacky Bhawsar, Mirnali Pandet, Rajendra Soni, and more from Rangvidushak and Nat Bundele Theatre Group, enacted the entire play on stage.
This 70 minutes play was presented in the Bundeli dialect and background. The story of the play was inspired from Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet but presented in the Desi way.The music in the play was given by Waseem Ali and Jitendra Parmar, the painting was made by Nidhi Singh and Roli Jain, and the instrumentalist includes Sanket Bharat on Harmonium, Prashant Srivastava and Sunil Potel on Taal Vadya.
The play revolves around the female protagonist, Chandni, and male protagonist, Jugnu. Chandni belongs to a wealthy upper class family and her family holds reputation and impact among the other areas as well.Due to the family grudges, the brother of Chandni, Salju, has killed the head of the Bhand (Jester’s) family.
But he loves Chandni very much and he treats his sister as one of his prized possession. During these times, the younger child of the enemy family, Jugnu, returns home and falls in love with Chandni. Apart from their families being enemies of each other, Chandni and Jugnu, fall head over heels in love with one another.
However, Salju, somehow, gets to know about the affair of his sister and Jugnu. But this time, instead of directly attacking, he plays a plot as he knew that Chandni is very stubborn and she might kill herself if he does anything to Jugnu.
Therefore, he says Chandni that she is getting married to Jugnu by hiding the fact that he has already fixed her marriage to a man belonging to a wealthy family. But Salju’s plan fails as Chandni and Jugnu sacrificed their respective lives for their love.