On September 14, 1949, 65 years ago, the Indian Constitution adopted Hindi as the national language. And since then every year, the day is celebrated as Hindi Divas. Keeping that in mind, city-based theatre company, Swatantra Theatre has organised two plays — Dakghar and Komal Gandhar — to showcase the versatile literature of the language. The plays will be staged over two days at the Main Theatre at the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII).

Stills from the play, Komal Gandhar

Abhijeet Choudhary who has directed both the plays, says, “We do a lot of plays in Hindi, and wanted to celebrate Hindi Diwas. We feel it is our responsibility to promote Hindi as a language, as lately a lot of people feel bad to talk in Hindi, and look down upon those who do. We want to spread the message that this is a nice language. Both the plays are famous and have a very good theme.”