Hawalaat
Playwright: Sarveshwar Dayal Saxena
Direction: Rajkumar Rajak
Group: Extra, An Organization
Language: Hindi & Bengali
Duration: 43 minutes
About the Play:
The play begins with two young men who try to get caught by a policeman so that
they are taken to prison and can escape the cold outside. It looks at the turn of
events that take place around this basic desire.
Director’s Note:
When I decided to produce the play Hawalaat, I experienced certain limitations,
which forced me to make some alterations in the style and the structure of the play.
While bringing in these changes and giving them a distinct form, I was mindful of
the harsh realities, which surround us. For example, the series of recent bomb blasts
in different parts of the country; the bloodshed for the Tata project at Singrur;
commodification of values and I was greatly influenced by a poem, Sansad,
composed by Paash. I believe that the play is targeted at the young generation; that
is why, it could be performed at all the colleges and universities so that the audiencewhich, off course, will largely be young students belonging to the different strata of
the society- might realize as to how and why they were being influenced by Rock
culture and Sex. I acted in this play under the guidance of Shri Govind Gupta at
Allahabad, NCZCC in 1999. I can still recollect those memories and it gives me an
enormous amount of energy to run hard and chase my aims and aspirations.
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