Lakeerein - Play July 4, 2009

Lakeerein - Play. Writer: Gulzar. Director: Salim Arif. Cast: Yashpal Sharma, Amit Jairath, Vikas Katyal, Pratik Kothari, Salim Arif, Seema Sehgal, & Lubna Salim. Vignettes of people divided by a common history. A peek into the lives of people, the show encompasses the journey of the last sixty years of Indo-Pak relations with stories of Hope, Despair, Passion and Redemption. Batwara is the story of a man who believes that the writer is his long lost son in the journey across the border, someone who was destined to be discovered and reunite. The relationship acquires poignancy with passage of time leaving a lasting impression. Peer Sahab is about the presence of a Peer in the life of another writer, someone who oversaw the passage of this family in turbulent times. Over deals with the life across our porous borders, about soldiers and infiltrators leading a life that is very different than the frontlines of newspapers suggest. L.O.C. is a telling comment on the partition of people across the border, with common roots and culture. A collation of stories and poems of renowned litterateur Gulzar on the theme of Indo-Pak relations and its consequences on the lives of its people. The show is a tribute to the resilience of the human spirit and of shared values nurtured over centuries of common co-existence.

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