Mrityu Yesto Hunuhundaina to be staged in Pokhara

By Phadindra Adhikari,Pokhara,jan,1: The play ‘Mrityu Yesto Hunuhundaina’, which highlights the struggles of lower-middle-class families who do not know how to navigate life, is set to be staged in Pokhara.

Presented by Padyaprem Theater, the play is written by Sabitra Pathak (Sabu) and directed by Panchsubba Gurung and Shitala Adhikari.

The actors are currently busy with rehearsals. The play attempts to depict the challenges that contemporary Nepali society faces in building a future for their children and the various complications that arise along the way.

In the play, Shitala Adhikari has the role of the daughter, Mansavi, while Roshni Ramdam plays the mother. 

Other actors include Jaya Chapagain and Pratibha Gurung, with Abhishek Bhusal playing Mansavi’s brother, Ananta.

The play portrays the terrifying consequences of criminal minds that trap innocent young women in romantic deception, exploit technology for abuse, and push them into sex work. 

Running for about an hour, it will be performed five times over four days. Its storylines also explore the dangerous trap of drug addiction, intergenerational misunderstandings, and fraud in foreign employment.

Playwright Sabu said, “The youth today face many problems, and we have tried to portray some of these issues on stage."

Director Gurung added that the story depicts a lower-middle-class single mother in the city who, despite her struggles to raise her children and provide them with a bright future, finds her children trapped in a vicious cycle. The mother, who wishes to secure her children’s future through hard physical labour, always prioritizes her son over her daughter.

The play also shows how parents, without proper understanding, pledge their homes and send their children abroad, resulting in both the displacement of their children and the transfer of property into someone else’s hands. It portrays how people with criminal minds, addicted to alcohol, exploit young women through false love and force them into hellish lives.

In the end, Deepak is murdered, and Mansavi dies in an accident. The characters neither understand life nor experience a natural death, and even the surviving characters endure lives akin to difficult deaths.

The play presents a life-affirming perspective, showing that death should not occur in such a manner.

The play will be staged at Pokhara Natakghar from January 8 to 10, with five shows in total. This is the third play presented by Padyaprem Theater, which has previously staged Janaki and Dhaniram Ko Goru in Pokhara.