Shri 420

This play was written during the period when I was doing drama in Ballabgarh Faridabad and Delhi after studying drama from Shri Ram Center for Art and Culture. There was always a shortage of comedy plays. The plays written in Tamasha style especially plays like Saiya Bhaye Kotwal and Gadhe Ki Baraat were staged by our group Aakriti Rang Manch.Even after that many other plays were performed but the passion of the spectacle did not subside. Then thought why not write such a play in which every other sentence has some laughter or joke. It is about those days when the serial “Kudrat Nama” was on the verge of completion of shooting. The editing had not started. I completed the play “Shree 420” sitting in the office in my spare time and the rehearsals also started with Kala Rang Manch Faridabad.Female actors were hardly available so female characters were also kept less in the play and their dialogues and scenes were written less so that if they could not come to the rehearsal every day then the rehearsal of the play could continue. The final issue of the play was written after the rehearsals started.