In quest of peace and pizzazz---the 'Bib Laden' style By Sibanu Borah, AssamLive.com
All of a sudden the Army chief's residence rattled. His panic-stricken family members started screaming in the face of this terrific situation. The army officer confirmed that it's an explosion and again there is another strike. His US based journalist son working with the New York Times also confirmed it to be a terrorist attack. The World Trade Center under attack forcing hundreds of army personnel and journalist to rush to the spot. This is more or less of what The Sankardev Theatre group staged at Kujibali in Sivasagar district in its 'Bin Laden' on Tuesday, which made hundreds of audience stuck to their seats till the wee hours of Wednesday besides making an end to the month-long anxiety the gripped the peoples' mind as to will the Government tolerate Laden in the stage? Prafulla Das, a senior teacher with a college said, "Bin Laden has reached the stage not for fuelling terrorism but to bring the lost peace and pizzazz back." Another academician and a social worker said it has become possible only because of the talents of Samarendra Barman whose script is skilfully woven. Playing his role as Osama Bin Laden, Pranab Sarma hogged the limelight to tell the tales of woes and sufferings of the local Afghans at the hands of the Talibans more especially on the fair sex. The drama also made the packed 1500 audience spell bound by its flawless choreography, heart-throbbing music, art and light decoration. The arrangement of flights, clamour of the lakhs of dumb millions and the deployment of army really made it a warlike situation in the play. The play concludes with the peoples' readiness to bid farewell to arms. Fed up with the idea that terrorism is not the way, the Afghanistan women spoiled the guns to spare the beautiful world and journalist Parth's appeal to the people to shun the path of violence which mesmerised the people. The people who played were Pabitra Pran Bora, Bikash Bharadwaj, Jita Saikia, Lakhi Baruah, Nilima Deka, Ushuf, Samarendra, Baishali Dutta, Prabin Das, Bani Kanta Saikia, Lakhinath Majumdar.
