“Sakei-lu-lam” Festive Comedy Drama leh Cultural Play a Nih Dan Zirchianna

Abstract

This study examines Laltluangliana Khiangte’s play “Sakei-lu-lam” to determine how it functions as a festive comedy and a cultural play, connecting it with the definitions provided by various scholars of festive comedy and cultural plays. This study explores Mizo cultural traits, their methods of ensuring women’s safety, their beliefs, their tools, their pastimes, and the reasons behind their celebrations. Laltluangliana Khiangte is one of the most prolific Mizo playwrights, has had many of his plays included in textbooks. As far as is known, he has written 20 comedies, 5 tragedies, and 2 tragi-comedies. Of these, 11 have been translated into English and 15 into Hindi, while he has also translated two English plays, “Hamlet” and “The Bishop’s Candlesticks,” into Mizo.