Shagoofey

January 15, 2003

Hotel Park Plaza, Ludhiana

A humorous play with anecdotes collected by Ibne Insha in his book “Urdu ki Akhari Kitab” comes a social message under the satire. In this play, only one actor — Sanjay Solanki, who acts as a servant of Ibne Insha — entertained the audience by his theatrical skills. He juxtaposed with current affairs, the old views on several subjects like history and political science in a way that produced a perfect satire on the social setup. Though he rambled on from topic to topic, the script was punctuated with extremely funny dialogues that had the women present in splits.

The play has been written and directed by Balram and was presented by Media Artists. Media Artists is a group of people belonging to different media, who have come together on a common platform to generate awareness among people through their quality programmes using theatre and other mediums.

Shagoofe spoke of the lessons written in mock-serious tone to add to the satire on social morals and values. The play had all the sweetness of Urdu and great clean humour. The play was staged at Park Plaza.

Speaking to Ludhiana Tribune, Sanjay Solanki said he had adopted the anecdotal style of “Mirasis”. He said he had spent 15 days for rehearsals on the play. He said:” It is difficult to make people laugh these days specially when you are the only actor on stage performing for half an hour.”

(The Tribune)