The 44 year old Delhi based organization, The High Hillers Group (Regd.), Delhi staged the Garhwali play “Madhu Mandaan” wonderfully scripted by Dr. Satish Kaleshwari and directed by Hari Semwal in a hall packed with audience on 31st May, 2025 at L.T.G. Auditorium, Mandi House, Copernicus Marg, Delhi.
The play was inaugurated by lighting the lamp by the Chairman of D.P.M.I. Dr. Vinod Bachheti and the Secretary of Garhwali, Kumauni and Jaunsari Language Academy, Sanjay Garg, along with many other distinguished guests.
On this occasion, senior director Mitranand Kukreti ji, who has staged many plays of The High Hillers Group including Hindi and english plays as well, was also honored with “The High Hillers Natya Shiromani Samman 2025”.
This Garhwali language play titled “Madhu Mandaan” is about a young man suffering from diabetes who, on coming on leave from his job in his village Kadeth, Uttarakhand, comes to know that he is suffering from a disease which cannot be cured by conventional medicines and other popular methods. He was badly worried and in pain after he learnt that his diabetes spiked to 400 points.
He gets hundreds of suggestions for treatment and wastes thousands of rupees in the optimism of getting cured quickly. When all his savings are spent in seeking the treatment of the ailment, he is forced to return to his agricultural farms.
By working hard in the fields, his lifestyle changes completely and he becomes free from all diseases. In this way, through this drama, an attempt was made to give a positive message to the whole world including the country that by changing your lifestyle, being laborious and involved in physical exercises, you can live a happy and healthy life devoid of diabetes etc.
If we talk about the specialty of this play, then it was full of different characters woven in the environment of Uttarakhand.
Every character did complete justice to his role. Almost all the scenes were full of humor and satire kept providing complete entertainment to the audience keeping them glued to their seats.
In the play, Brijmohan Bedwal, Ramesh Thangriyal, Geeta Gusain Negi, Ravindra Gudiyal, Virendra Gusain, Savita Pant, Umesh Banduni, Vinod Negi, Mamta Karnataka, Shashi Badola, Ravindra Rawat “Gauri”, Darshan Singh Rawat, I.P Uniyal, Deen Dayal Juyal, Rampal Kimoli, Dharamveer Rawat, Dharmendra, Vijay Lakshmi Vedwal, Pushpa Devli, Lakshmi Danu, Shekhar Bhatt, Manmohan Upreti and child artist Ekaagra Kaleshwari all gave excellent performances.
The stage was managed by an eminent actor of Garhwali movies Rakesh Gaur and the technical side was handled by Aksha Rampal, Girdhari Rawat along with the director of the play.
Senior artists of the group Manju Bahuguna, Sanyogita Dhyani, Girish Bisht assisted in the stage arrangements. Anju Purohit, Babli Adhikari, Kiran Rampal, Jagmohan Singh Rawat Bugana and Sanjay Chauhan welcomed the guests.
The greatness of this play is that throughout its duration of about two hours, the audience remained glued to their seats and enjoyed every moment of it.
Every dialogue and scene was clapped and laughed at, which clearly reflected the excellent quality of the script, its intellectual sense of humour and above all the humorous dialogue delivery. Congratulations to the scriptwriter Dr. Satish Kaleshwari and director Hari Semwal.
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