 Early Times Report
Jammu, Feb 4: Suggestive of its title, Andha Yug, a tragedy does not only show the destruction of human lives but, also ethical values.
Chosen from blood-scattered battlefield’s last day of epical Mahabharta, Dharmveer Bharti’s Andha Yug is all about sufferings of victors and the losers where brothers and cousins pitted against each other in hunger for power lose their self identities. It also elaborates on the consequences, when a society fails to step out of the cycle of revenge and instead choose a redemptive path, which is always available even in worst of scenarios, leading to wide-scale bloodshed. The fourth play in the ongoing Nutan International Theatre Festival(NITF-2020) organized by Lakshya-The Aim and Nutan Prayas Manch, Andha Yug presented a scintillating combination of art, craft, music and actors in display. The play begins on the 18th and last day of the great Mahabharata War, which devastated the kingdom of Kauravas, cousins of Pandavas, their capital Hastinapur lay burning in ruins, the battlefield of Kurukshetra scattered with carcasses and skies filled with vultures and death laments. Sufferers were on both the side as cousins killed each other. The survivors were left grieving and enraged as they continued to blame other for the destruction even divine will, yet no one was willing to view it as a consequence of their own moral choices.
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