Digdarshak the Play

      

Digdarshak

The play ‘Digdarshak’ is written by Priyam Jani and directed by Rishit Jhaveri. The film is an autobiography of the Director, of his dedication towards theatre. Here the Director trains a boy in acting and he becomes the ‘Digdarshak’ for the boy. After the boy excels in acting he thinks of going to the cinemas which the Digdarshak dislikes. The Digdarshak thinks that after his disapproval also the boy went for cinemas and when the boy comes to meet him, they both started an argument for both cinema and theatre. The Digdarshak was unable to except the fact that cinemas could be better than theatre because he was an orthodox man for whom ‘Old is Gold’.

   At the end when their conversation was going on in between the Digdarshak came to know the truth why the boy left him. It was so because that the Digdarsak’s son gave two lakhs rupees to the boy so that he leaves his father because his father was so dedicated towards his work that it became his life and he slowly got detached from his son and his family which was disheartening the whole family.  When the Digdarshak confronts the truth he feels guilty and thinks that an artist should always try to balance his both personal and professional life.

     When the Digdarshak gives a script to the boy to read and the boy mistakens then Digdarshak says that cinema is more democratic than theatre because theatre is dictatorial.  And in theatre the Director is always a dictator.