CANFEST-2023| Day 9|Boda Rajja| (Ahamiya)
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“Canfest-2023” i.e.,20th National Theatre Festival (19th to 28thMarch’ 2023) 10 days festival
DAY-9
27-03-2023(Monday)
DRAMA : BODA RAJA
GROUP : BADUNGUDDUUPA KALA KENDRA, ASSAM
DIRECTOR : DHANANJAY RABHA
LANGUAGE : AHAMIYA
THE PLAY
Inspired by a Rabha folk tale “Randana Chandana and JanturPantur”, the play narrates the story of a monolithic village that thrived in harmony with the cooperation and fellowship of its inhabitants since time unknown. Given the content life of the villagers with neither to gain nor to lose, they continue to live peacefully uninformed of their susceptibility. However, with the passage of time, the society undergoes a gradual change as greed, for both power and wealth, upsets the bond of their ancient solidarity. The ominous greed gradually transforms into a python that swallows the entire village and controls them positioning itself at the centre of the power structure. The calm and peaceful life of the village erodes as the serpentine body of power grows bigger and stronger. To make things worse, some opportunists from within the villagers participate in their own exploitation dancing to the tune of their handler in the hope of satiating individual hunger with a little slice of the pillage. The villagers are caught in an existential wait while the power induced lunacy of the present time is leading to further derangement of social harmony and mutual trust.