Andha Yug

Andha Yug (Hindi: अंधा युग, The Age of Blindness or The Blind Age) is a 1954 verse play written in Hindi, by renowned novelist, poet, and playwright Dharamvir Bharati (1926-1997). It was the first important play of 20th century India. Set in the last day of the Great Mahabharat war, the five-act tragedy was written in the years following the 1947 partition of India atrocities, as allegory to its destruction of human lives and ethical values. It is a metaphoric meditation on the politics of violence and aggressive selfhood and that war dehumanized individuals and society. Thus both the victor and the vanquished lose eventually.

The anti-war play first created sensation as a radio play at Allahabad All India Radio. This led to its production by Mumbai-based theatre director, Satyadev Dubey (1962), and subsequent famous production by theatre doyen Ebrahim Alkazi against the backdrop of historical monuments in Delhi (like Feroz Shah Kotla and Purana Qila). It became "a national theatrical event"; his 1963 production was seen by then Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru. In was subsequently staged by numerous directors and in many Indian languages.

Yug

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Yug (TV series)

Yug (English: Age, Hindi: युग) was an Indian Hindi language television series that was telecast on Doordarshan, India's national television network. It was first aired on DD National from 1996 to 1998.

Yug was a fictional series depicting the story of Indian freedom fighters and their struggle to win freedom for India. The series was produced and directed by Sunil Agnihotri and had notable actors like Javed Khan, Pankaj Dheer, Sudesh Berry, Hema Malini, Shahbaz Khan, Mukesh Khanna, Ashwini Bhave, Vinod Kapoor and Abhimanyyu Raj Singh, in main lead.

Plot

The story starts with a riot. An old woman saves an anonymous child from the rioters. Later when she is asked by her daughter that why she put her life in danger for saving the child that does not belong to her, she tells that the country is their and every citizens are like our own family. Then it is revealed that she was a freedom fighter as she tells her story. The story shift to past when British ruled India. Ali Khan (Pankaj Dheer) and Virendra Singh aka Veeru (Shahbaz Khan) were two freedom fighters fighting against the Britishers for India's independence. Their Party was known as Swatantrata Party (Freedom Party) and there code was Kala Gulab (Black Rose). They were secretly helped by Ranjeet Basu (Vinod Kapoor), who was disguised as a friend of Britishers. Sudesh Berry plays an Indian army officer in the show who fought bravely in the operation vijay (1961) with the Portuguese soldiers