Arjun Ka Beta – Play Based on Abhimanyu’s Fight inside Chakravyuh in Mahabharata

Arjun Ka Beta is a play (drama) based on Abhimanyu’s fight inside the Chakravyuh in the Kurukshetra battle in the Mahabharata. The play is directed by Atul Satya Koushik and was staged on June 15, 2014. The drama symbolically represents the seven Kaurava warriors, who fought against Abhimanyu, as seven vices.

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"The story is very much relevant in today's time as 'Chakravyuh' has many lessons for us.
This life that we are living is itself is a Chakravyuh and we are all Abhimanyu's of our battles.
"Those seven warriors that he fought against are seven vices that mankind has to always strive against," Atul Satya Koushik added. 

Abhimanyu, the courageous and valiant son of Arjuna agreed to enter the complex, spiral multi tier defensive formation after six days of the Kurukshetra war. Even though, he knew how to get into the seven layered system, he did not know how to get out of it. And lost his life in the fight. 

So using poetic verses and lord Krishna as protagonist, the play begins by establishing the importance of learning from mythology. 

"I believe more in lessons than the story or incidents of the mythology, we must pass on the learning from the story to our next generation. 

Incidents or happenings may be questioned and their validity may be challenged. But the learning and lessons are perennial and pervasive. 

They must be propagated in our minds even though we forget the incidents of events that actually happened in them," he said.