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Play depicting Mayawati's lifestyle banned
Thursday January 26, 2012 09:41:30 AM,
IANS
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Lucknow: A satirical
play depicting the extravagant lifestyle of Uttar Pradesh Chief
Minister Mayawati has been banned by her government.
Even as play director Mukesh Kumar denied any connection with the
chief minister, Lucknow District Magistrate declared "the play
titled 'My Sandal' was in utter violation of the election model
code of conduct and therefore its staging could not be permitted".
However, the story line of the play indicates that the play
depicts none other than Mayawati. Even the names of characters are
similar to those close to the chief minister.
The play is about 'Maya', a queen who rules a country called 'mayanagri'.
She is obsessed about high quality sandals, which are bought from
the Arab world. Her sycophants gift her sandals.
One such precious pair is bought by her devoted nobles as gift for
her birthday. But since the event is still away, the nobles --
Satish, Naseem and Nakul -- decide to keep the priceless gift in
the safe and secure confines of the queen's treasury.
However, the sandals are accidentally gobbled up by Maya's
favourite elephant, who necessarily feeds on jewels stacked in the
treasury to which the animal has free access.
The deeply worried nobles seek the good offices of the kingdom's
exiled doctor, widely known for doing the impossible. They implore
upon him to give the elephant some drug so that the sandals come
out of the intestines together with the jewels on which it had
been feeding.
The doctor's medicines do the magic and the sandals slip out along
with the excreta. But the jewels are all missing.
Instead what comes out are documents exposing the corrupt
practices the queen has been indulging in to amass ill-gotten
wealth, which triggers a revolt in the kingdom.
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