‘Pranveer Pratap’-A Powerful Play’

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Vilas janve // Mewar is known as the land of Maharana Pratap, but it also a land of creative artistes who have deep regards for Maharana Pratap. Out of their profound respect towards the phenomenal personality of Maharana Pratap, they prepare and present events on various inspiring aspects of Maharana Pratap. Recently a play 'Pranveer Pratap' was staged by 'Madan Leela Parivar' and 'Naadbramh' at Mohan Lal Sukhadiya University auditorium. The play was written by Pandit Girdharilal Shastri and Moolshankar Manishankar Yagnik and the script was further improvised by Mahesh Ameta and Shivraj Sonwal. They clubbed Digital and theatrical aspects by putting LED Screen in the middle of the stage. Scenes of Akabar's court and palace were shot and mixed with visuals of battles while others scenes were enacted by the actors on suggestive sets. Concept Designer and Director, Shivraj Sonwal used symbolic sets with realistic costumes and get up. It revealed his depth in subject and hard work. He skillfully managed to control the screen and stage. The technical and back stage workers did commendable job.
The contents of the play were much known; hence involvement of audience was at very high level. Spectators occasionally heralded the slogans, "Jay E Kling Nath" and "Maharana Pratap ki Jay" giving tribute to the great beloved Maharana.Acting wise Naveen Jeengar, protagonist Maharana Pratap was very expressive. His physique suited for the role. Satish Ashi as Akabar and Bheem Singh Dodia was too impressive in both the roles displaying emotions with full accuracy. Mahesh Ameta as Prithviraj Rathor displayed versatile talent. Fateh Singh Rathor as Bhilu Rana did his best despite leg injury. Ramesh Nagda show cased his talent in two roles of Mansingh Songara and Bhama Shah. Ravi Sen as Amar Singh and Amit Vyas as Shakti Singh exhibited their good gestures. Vijay Singh Gurjar as Jhala Maan and Hari Krishna Siyal as Raja Man Singh lived their characters considerably. Kajal Verma as Rani Ajabde Panwar,Ghanshyam Singh Solanki as Krishna Singh, Gajendra Singh as Rajput Sardar, Shibli Khan as Khankhana, Kushagra Saruparia as Jait Singh along with other actors like Parth Pandya,Sachin Bhandari,Yash Naruka and Prakash Dhakad justified their roles. Cinematography and editing was done carefully by Kailash Paliwal and it left impact on viewers. Art direction and stage decor was done by Sandeep Sen which helped actors to move smoothly. Hemant Menaria could not do much with his limitations.
The auditorium may be fit for musical concerts where the artistes keep mike close to their mouth, but for drama the acoustics are not suitable. The important dialogues were missed by the audience. Similarly the depths of the stage become hindrance for proper lighting. If actors had movements and dialogues at down stage either they were in dark or their shadows were covering faces of co actors. Mahesh Ameta is a brilliant artistes who proved his worth in improvising script, costume, make up and music but handling many forts in running drama has some drawbacks also which reflected in his singing. Handling such a big caste requires high level of patience and cooperation for which Nad Bramh team is better known. But such plays with big caste require more than 3 rehearsals on stage with light and sound effects. The hall of MLSU can accommodate more persons but does not provide good sound quality. Better it would have been to stage 3 shows at Darpan auditorium of Shilpgram instead. Theatre lovers of Udaipur can pack the hall for even more shows if the quality is good. Big cities have many repeated performances of various plays. Such practice can be adopted by the becoming smart city.