Saturday, August 31, 2013

Anwar Maqsood’s Sawa 14 August set to be another blockbuster

Pakistan News & Features Services

Anwar Maqsood’s new stage drama Sawa 14 August, presented with the collaboration of Geo Television and Jang Group, has brought back life to the Auditorium of the Arts Council of Pakistan in Karachi.

It is third presentation of the versatile writer for theatre, after the Pawnay 14 August and Angan Terha, and it has made its debut on August 14, 2013.

The play would be amusing the Karachiites for a few more weeks as the cast includes some actors who had already worked for this dream team of the country’s theatre. 

After the success of Pawnay 14 August and Aangan Terrha in Karachi, Lahore and Islamabad, Kopykats Productions has brought a sequel to Pawnay 14 August by the name of Sawa 14 August. This time it’s a new era with Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto and General Zia-ul-Haq face-to-face with Quaid-e-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah. 

Anwar Maqsood once again fits over the realism in his satire and the irony of our country’s history with current times. Sawa 14 August is considered another doze of patriotism for the audience as well as a reality-check, though on a whole new level.

Directed by Dawar Mehmood of Kopykats productions, the 90-minute one-act play gives a deluded and simplistic account of more than four decades of history. 

The acting of Gohar Rasheed as Zia-ul-Haq, Wassam Waheed as Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, Zahid Ahmed as Quaid-e-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah and Yasir Hussain, who plays three different characters, a Sindhi politician, a Pakhtun poet and an aged man on the railway station, spreads the message of the playwright louder. 

The efforts of the writer and the director to tell the history of Pakistan to the younger generations have generally been hailed.

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