Nagpur: Two plays — ‘Nirop’ and ‘Athang’ — staged as part of Govind Hari Velankar memorial Saptak festival, surcharged the atmosphere with emotions at Scientific Society Hall, on Monday.Written by Dinkar Bedekar, one-act play ‘Nirop’ depicted an emotional and touching relationship of a family. The protagonists of the play, Madhuri Bedekar, in the role of mother and her husband portrayed by Dilip Mule and son by Aditya Deshmukh, reached out to the audience, conveying the thoughts and feelings of the characters.The play was staged in an after-death conversation between parents, who lost their life in a bus accident, about their only son who had left the house four years back. The mother blames the father for teaching their son not to express himself to anyone. With the sufferings he faced in life weighing high on his mind, the father used to tell the son not to display emotions and open up even if he faced problems.After leaving the parents, the son confines himself to office and his home. Whenever the parents visit him, his father expected that he would initiate a talk with him, which does not happen. Later, he used to ask his wife whether their son enquired about him or not. At the end, realizes dawns on him that he should have talked to his son on his own to avoid the awkward situation he finds himself in.The second play ‘Athang’ portrayed a mother’s pure love for a child. Written by Abhay Navathe and directed by Vaidehi Chavre, it created an emotional environment which was treated with excellently written dialogues that added fun to the play.The characters in ‘Athang’, Pushpa (Pranali Raut), grandmother Radhakka (Prabha Deoskar), Nisha (Sayli Kubde) and Guna (Sai Raut) effectively showcased every side of the character they played. ‘Athang’ revolved around the life of Pushpa and Radhakka who have come to Mumbai for the first time for Guna’s heart transplantation.Both the plays emotionally connected well with the audience and received repeated applause.(Reporting by Namrata Ghaturle)

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