The Act: Hard times

 🎭 HINDI PLAY OF HARD TIMES:-

Apart from all this adaptation as a movies and series, the performance on the stage has more influence on us. As the same now take a look into the Hindi language performance by khilona Theatre on Hard Times by Charles Dickens. 

Major Diffrence between the novel and play is that the novel starts with a very typical thaught of a teacher (Thomas Gradgrind),

"Now, what I want is, Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts".

And the play starts with the Chorus and introduction of the novel that what is going to be happen in the play. 

In this play their are so many scenes catch our eyes on them but this one scene got my attention, The scene when Louisa Descend the stairs and the lady screams inside that I am waiting for this moment come Louisa come towards your death and downfall.

There is also a very interesting scene of Blackpool that Bounderby asking or try to bribe Blackpool that he tells him to support him cause he is not with the workers but he says his statement in his value that:-

"If I am not with them that doesn't mean I am against them".

This dialogue by him clearly represent that how he is respectable for his own thoughts and moral values. Through this dialogue of Blackpool Dickens reflects his thaught clearly that he is with workers. Even though he is not with workers, he is not against them. 

In this blog i tried to figure out how and what Charles Dickens wants to say through his works according to me and other sources also.

Starting and Ending:-

          The Novel begins with a scene of the school classrooms where Mr. Gradgrind tells Mr. McChoakumchild to teach girls and boys facts. The Novel begins by the sentence,

"Now what I want is facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but facts."

.       The play contains the same, but initially Sutradhar says about the novels to the audience. Like starting play ends with he suggestions and answers but now with a song. 

Use of Sutradhar and Nat:-

      Sutradhar plays an important part in Indian drama. The major need of this character is to unfold truths which are not presented directly. It gives relief to the audience. It is sometimes used for a didactic purpose also. So in Hindi play adaptation of the novel Hard Times is also having the same elements. 

           Initially Sutradhar says about the novels to the audience and Nat. In the initial conversation, both talk about the story and fiction. To reply to his question about the Didactic element of the story, Sutradhar says that each story teaches us something, but if the aim of the story is not to teach, our imagination lets us pick good things from it. 

         In the same part Nat admits that he hasn't read the novel as he is only concerned with his dialogues. In the entertainment industry, there are so many actors like or actors of Hard Times who have only concern with his own part, not about the whole story.