Manukau Festival of Arts 2010 is going to be the place to be for Indian audiences to be this October. For the first time, it will have a representation of the HINDI theatre, showcasing the court room thriller “EK RUKA HUA FAISLA”, a MIGHT-I THEATRE production.
This play is a thrilling courtroom drama originally written by Reginald Rose and was titled ’12 Angry Men’. The story idea is quite simple. There are twelve male members of a jury who have gathered together in an enclosed room to deliberate on charges of murder against a young boy accused of killing his father. The case against the boy looks irrefutable and indomitable, as there is a witness in the form of an old man who claims to have heard the incident and another woman who claims to have seen the actual act of stabbing. Plus there is the murder weapon - a knife - that was found at the crime scene, seemingly implicating the boy without any fragment of doubt. But all is not what it seems like.
All the jury members, except one, are convinced that the boy is guilty of the crime and the task before them is to reach a unanimous decision to expedite the case. But there is only one jury member who is not completely convinced about the case and he starts the deliberations, in which all the members have to participate to reach a common conclusion.
What starts off as a minor doubt in one jury member’s mind slowly develops into an intricate and almost perpetually animated discussion about the various possibilities and scenarios where there could be even a shred of divergence from the commonly perceived notions and judgments of the jury members? There is an adjudicator who is supposed to chair the jury & make sure a final decision is reached. But he is also a part of the vote and has to make up his own mind along with making sure the proceedings are done without disruptions.
The one guy who is not fully convinced manages to change the vote of one other jury member who is the oldest in the room. From here begins a vociferous and sometimes downright argumentative discussion, with most of the jury members ending up fighting with someone or the other in trying to make a point or accept another.
So, there are these 12 unnamed characters, somehow symbolic of the unnamed & unknown boy accused of killing his father, and these ordinary 12 people discover their own set of beliefs and thought processes as they try to unravel the same for the accused. Each is trying to convince the rest about their viewpoint. But are they able to convince everyone else and reach an undisputed decision? It will capture your attention till the very end, where they jury does reach a unanimous verdict - one you have to see it yourself to believe it.
The play has been modified and adopted in Hindi by Prashant Belwalkar who is also directing the play. The cast includes experienced theatre personalities like Devdutt Paranjape, Kuntal Trivedi, Bipin Chavan, Sushma Thakur, Rahul and Binita Redey, and at the same time a fresh set of talent in form of Hetal Jani, Madhavi Ram, Ram Padallapurty, Preeta Vyas, Kedar Divekar and Vinesh Kugaonkar. Start your Diwali celebrations with this fantastic production.
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There are 2 shows of the play
Date: Saturday 30th October @ 6.00 pm
Date: Sunday 31st October @ 5.00 pm
Venue: Howick College Theatre
Sandspit Road, Howick, Manukau
Tickets : Children/Snr Citizens - $10
Adults : - $15, Family (x4) - $40.00
For further details contact:
Varsha (09 5348000)