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NCP
activists oppose staging of 'Mee Nathuram Godse Boltoye'
Thursday February 03, 2011 07:09:27 PM,
IANS
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Thane
(Maharashtra): An angry group of Nationalist Congress
Party (NCP) activists Thursday opposed the staging of the
controversial Marathi play "Mee Nathuram Godse Boltoye" at a
theatre here.
The play is an account of Mahatma Gandhi, from the viewpoint of
his assassin, Nathuram Godse.
The activists, numbering over 200, shouted slogans outside the
Gadkari Theatre and attempted to stop the staging of the play, but
were rounded up by a strong police posse stationed there to ward
off trouble.
"The play is being staged first time in Thane after the Bombay
High Court lifted the central government's ban on it around five
years ago. I find it unfortunate since the play has had over 625
shows all over the state, including Mumbai, very peacefully," the
play's director Vinay Apte told IANS.
The play - which he termed a "White Paper on (Mahatma) Gandhi
Assassination" - was banned all over India by the central
government in 2001 after a ruckus in Parliament.
The producers of the play challenged the ban move in the court,
which finally lifted the stay five years later.
Apte said that though there has been heavy public demand from
people of Thane, certain political opposition has thwarted all
attempts to stage it here.
"The play has been cleared by all the concerned agencies and has
been running peacefully across the state. So it is the duty of the
police and the civic authorities to facilitate its staging," Apte
said.
Apte, an acclaimed stage, and Marathi and Bollywood films actor,
said that "Mee Nathuram Godse Boltoye" attempted to portray the
other side of the story based on authentic documents and without
any fiction involved.
He regretted that even 60 years after the tragedy of the
assassination of the Father of the Nation, some people are not
willing to listen to "the other side of the story" as told by
Godse.
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