MERA RANG DE BASANTI CHOLA TRIAL

Besides, there will be many coming after me.вЂ™ That spirited young man has lived to be 108 this past week.Д«hagat Singh may have been one such young man influenced as much by the internationalist anarchists and Marxists as by the bhaktis, the sant and the fakirs of the Punjab. Breathing is not all there is to being aliveвЂ™, Bhagat says in his last letter and then adds humorously: вЂHad I lived long, you would have found fault in me. вЂI care not if I donвЂ™t live to grow a hundred years old. In the play, an old man says he knows who killed Kasuri: вЂњIt is the patron saint, Shah Jamal, who called him to come face his end.вЂќ At every turn, the playwright invokes local saints and poets as rebels against an unjust social order, and as lovers who care not for the fruits of fortune.Д«hagat has lived on like he always said he would, even though he refused clemency at the hands of the British-run courts. The bodies of these young men were then hacked, burnt near a village along the Ravi and - when villagers approached the pyre - the half-burnt bodies were thrown into the river. Forty years later, the infamous Kasuri was fired upon by unknown assailants in the exact same spot where Bhagat and his friends had been hanged, Shadman Chowk, where the scaffolding was quickly dismantled to prevent a popular uprising. It is also a well-researched piece of writing with a twist, where Shahid Nadeem introduces a new historical villain - Nawab Mohammed Ahmed Khan of Kasur - the magistrate who hanged Bhagat.

The vaudeville is finally working and the huge cast and chorus put in a performance that was energetic and enthused with a lot of song and dance, live musicians and tunes set to the wealth of poetry written on Bhagat Singh and the songs the three friends sang in the courtroom to mock their trial, then all the way to the gallows to mock despair.

To all appearances, Ajoka has come of age. In Pakistan, we suffer a blindness all our own: a Sikh hero is an embarrassment to the national narrative.ДЄjokaвЂ™s restaging of Mera Rang De Basanti Chola addresses an important erasure from our historyДЄs Madiha Gauhar put it in her introduction to the play, вЂњWe forget that this country was made in the name of a minority - a Muslim minority - with the help of other people who lived here.вЂќ To the credit of Ajoka, they did not use the legend of Bhagat Singh to rehash the Punjabi nationalist narrative, although the young man was unmistakably from an agrarian family of full-blooded, revolutionary Sikhs who loved home.ДЄ scene from AjokaвЂ™s play Mera Rang De Basanti Chola - Photos: Ajoka Archives Who was this young man so loved to this day, more popular than Jinnah and Gandhi in the 1930s India, and so reviled by contemporary historians in India and in Pakistan where the debate still rages over whether he were a вЂњterroristвЂќ or a вЂњrevolutionaryвЂќ? In India, 60 years of Congress rule have wiped clear the legacy of all other freedom fighters from the textbooks except for Nehru and Gandhi, labelling everyone else either a вЂњterroristвЂќ or вЂњseparatistвЂќ. He took on the violent and unjust British government with his young friends, a white manвЂ™s life was lost, and Bhagat decided to turn himself in to the authorities to own up to what he had done along with Raj Guru and Sukh Dev, his close friends and allies who marched with him to the gallows.

MERA RANG DE BASANTI CHOLA TRIAL

My rickshawala, a young man I had asked to wait at the gate, came in along with me and sat right through.Д«ased on the trial and hanging of the 23-year-old young man, Mera Rang De Basanti Chola is the story of a dreamer of revolution that would change the lives of poor people in India. The venue was a public hall and tickets cost nothing but your transport to the centre of town. In a valiant attempt to keep the tradition of dreaming alive, Ajoka Theatre recently staged a play in Lahore on Bhagat Singh. This song is sung by Rajesh Thaker.A portrait of Bhagat Singh, the stylish young revolutionary - Photos: Ajoka Archives Mera Rang De Basanti Chola (а¤®аҐ‡а¤°а¤ѕ а¤°а¤‚а¤— а¤¦аҐ‡ а¤¬а¤ёа¤‚а¤¤аҐЂ а¤љаҐ‹а¤Іа¤ѕ) song from the album Maa Tujhe Pranaam -Unforgettable Patriotic Songs is released on Jan 2008. Listen to Rajesh Thaker Mera Rang De Basanti Chola MP3 song.

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