Kalpana Pishach also depicts the ancient time's torture tradition and its social effects

Kalpana Pishach , was written in 1975 by Rizvan Zahir Usman Sahab. For this play, he has also been awarded for the Devilala Samar Natya playwriting, Rizvan Zahir Usman Sahab was a modern theatre artist whose plays were basically related to the burning questions of social problems and political issues. According to him, Drama is not just a form of entertainment, it also has a message, and it also has a clear purpose in favour of the sophistication of human senses.

In this play, there is a story of an old village presented. This play presents the misbehaviour, torture, discrimination, exploitation towards the poor people, rape and molestation of the poor women committed by the Thakur and landlords of that era.

In this play, the landlord is named Pisach and Kalpana has been referred to as the dream of freedom from all of the exploitation and torture the poor people suffer.

These old conservative traditions have made the humans thoughts like animals. In that era, not only the poor people were tortured by powerful men but they also rape and molest women to show off their post, prestige and splendour.

Those rich people consider themselves as, all in all, God.

Time by time, the way of torture kept changing. People have also raised their voices again these crimes but nonetheless, this torture is a part and parcel of this society. 

This play has been directed by Sunil Tank who has kept this play alive by selecting the right cast with neutral direction. The vision behind presenting this play is that every individual can feel the pain of the torture, raise their voice against such acts and aid the people to live freedom life.

This play is an overwhelming story of the people being tortured and behaving like an animal.

By presenting this play,  I want to show the real face of society in ancient times plays were based on social concerns and today as well, the actors have the talent to keep the theatre and their characters alive on the stage by presenting these with their hard work and dedication. 

The actors playing the roles in this play on the stage are given below.

As Sunil talk says he has observed closely of such types of things since childhood and has experienced the pain of it. Further, he added that he has been studious since childhood and he used to read about the exploitation happening around the world. Due to deep sensitivity, I could closely experience the pain and problems and was able to portray this play"Kalpana Pishach" on the stage. And, I think the reason for being a part of the theatre is that I am sensitive towards these incidents and have also been habitual of reading books and listening radio and these things have helped me to have a deep understanding of such types of issues/subjects. These have motivated me to revive the characters of the stories/plays that can be presented in front of the audience. It is glorified that this play"Kalpana Pishach" has been written in 1975 and only 3 honorable personalities have portrayed this play. The first one was Kavi Ali Bohra Sahab and then Bhanu Bharti Sahab and the last, the writer of this play and the world-known director Shri Rizwan Zahir Usman Sahab. After 40 years this"Kalpana Pishach" play has been depicted and directed by Team Natya Sanstha.

This Sanstha has also been founded in Udaipur in 1970 by, Rizwan Zahir Usman Sahab,  Shailender Sharma and his colleagues.

After that,  no one could portray this play. According to the news, the NSD has tried to portray it but they could not succeed.  It is considered to be quite difficult to be portrayed despite being a powerful play. Shalender Sharma, the close friend, and disciple of Rizwan zahir Usman Sahab, who is having over 50 years of experience doing the theatre and has also been part of this play in the past, has played the main role in this play.

After 40 years this"Kalpana Pishach" play has been depicted and directed by Team Natya Sanstha.

This Sanstha has also been founded in Udaipur in 1970 by Shailender Sharma, Rizwan Zahir Usman Sahab, and his friends. Till then Sanstha has portrayed multiple plays that are based on social issues and reals facts of life. And still, this Sanstha is coming up with new projects which depict the burning and social issues.

The play was prepared in a presentation-oriented theatrical workshop. It was presented in the Shilpgram auditorium named"Darpan".In which the theater workers were also witnessed along with the sudhidarshans of Udaipur. The performance was appreciated by well-known experienced artists  Vilas Janve sir and Deepak Dixit by greeted the entire team with garland and Congratulating the whole team as well.

stage manager: monika bhatt

set & props : shailendra sharma, Naresh gaur

costumes : pushpendra Singh solanki , Ajay sharma, Mahipal Singh Rathore

Back stage: jagdish paliwal sumit raj purohit, shakti singh panwar 

make up : preeti Chauhan 

music : akhilesh jha

camera : Akshay jain

lights : Rakesh jhawar

play design : shailendra sharma 

direction : sunil tank

*onstage cast* 

jamidar: shailendra sharma

pati : Ramesh nagda

champa: tammana goyal

bandhak : jigar joshi , Mukesh meghwal, bhavesh singhatwadia

jasoos: ashok Kapoor

chameli : rimjhim jain

kinner bijali : mohsin khan

saheli : yuvika gehlot

kids : kavya harkawat, pakhi jain