Play staged to mark centenary of Kakori train Action
The play was written by Sushil Kumar Singh, adapted and directed by Sumit Srivastava. Music was provided by Anjana Puri and costumes were designed by Sneha Kumar. The plot began with a theatre group from Shahjahanpur going to perform in Lucknow on the centenary of Kakori Train Action, but the bus in which they were travelling broke down near Kakori Station at the exact spot where this historical event had taken place.
The artists, upon learning that this was the only place where the train was looted, became very excited and started rehearsing their performance.The performance included the friendship of Ashfaqullah Khan and Ramprasad Bismil, martyrs providing relief to the people while suffering from the atrocities of the British govt, planning and execution of the loot, and finally the hanging of the martyrs, which left the audience teary-eyed.
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The main characters were played by Anil K Chaudhary (Chandra Shekhar Azad), Ritesh Asthana (Sachindra Nath Bakshi), Arghya Samanta (Ashfaqullah Khan), Ashutosh Jaiswal (Ramprasad Bismil), Rajarshi Roy Chowdhury (Rajendra Nath Lahiri) and Vikas Dubey (Roshan Singh).
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