After viewing 'KHARIKO GHERO'

Today I viewed the drama, 'KHARIKO GHERO', a translated Nepali drama at Gurukul Theatre.

I found the drama seriously meaningful as well as extremely entertaining. The play offers both understanding and pleasure in greater degree.

For me, the themes of the play were about motherhood, courage, love and justice. Geeta, a servant in the King's palace, is the real Hero of the play. She saves and bring sup Manohar, the prince who was approached by the army men with for some conspiracy. The basic plot is all about her struggles to hide and protect Manohar and herself from army men of the force. Akkal Bahadur, is the secondly most important character, who appears only in the second half of the play. With many weakness and stupidities, though, he has proved himself a good judge at the end of the play. He is corrupt regarding economic matters, abuses people (especially women) with harsh words. He is unknown to any legal provision; neither has he wanted to know them. He thinks   himself a full court and makes verdicts according to his own random instincts. Yet, his final verdict - regarding whom the child should be given - seems absolutely just and appropriate.

The drama ends with a melodious song with a greater message, "Vehicle - of who drives, child - of who brings up, land - of who ploughs…" This is straightforward, plain but appropriate and objective formula of justice, as presented in the play.

In many scenes, audiences can not stop their laughter, especially in the actions and dialogues of King's brother, Geeta's husband and mother-in-law, Akkal Bahadur and some army men.

However, the drama contains some such dialogues and scenes, which can be found "semi-obscene" for family environment in Nepali society. The army men's treatment over Geeta, Geeta's husband's bath scene and army men's general use of verbal and bahavioural codes to refer sexual matters can be found indigestive to some Nepali people. On the other hand, the drama has shown the Queen "unlike mother", who is far more concerned with make-ups and apparels, than her own child.

The drama is more than two hours and 10 minutes long with a 10-minute interval. The drama begins after 5:30pm, therefore ends at nearly 8pm. The organizer should realize that many people who are eager to enjoy the performance, have not become able to attend it, because of this time factor. If it would begin quite earlier of it would be quite shorter, more people would get chance to enjoy it.