Prize winning poetic skit on corruption

The below script of award-winning, anti-corruption poetic skit comprises the following 10 characters:

Varun (Son)	Daisy (wife)	Parking in-charge	Bank Manager	Stranger 1
Arun (Father)	Traffic Police	Bank Counter Person (clerk)	Auto Rickshaw Driver	Stranger 2

 A short poem to be narrated in the beginning:-

(1)    A boy asked his mother while sipping tea,

   Ma, what is CORRUPTION that we see?

   Mother replies...

(2)    When guilty eat ghee and flee, 

   When happiness does not come for free,

   This is called CORRUPTION that we see

(3)    The greed to have more money than fishes in the sea,

   When people don’t listen to their inner voice or disagrees,

   This is called CORRUPTION that we see

(4)    When a common man has to come to his knees,

   When belongingness ends in the global family tree,

   This is called CORRUPTION that we see

Lines for anchor:

(5)    Let us watch this skit and foresee,

   The devil called CORRUPTION at its highest degree

 SCENE # 1

Varun (Son): Papa… papa… today is the last day to pay school fees… please don’t forget

Arun (Father): OK

Varun (Son): Bye papa (he leaves the scene while saying this)

Daisy (wife): Arun… you have to go to “Jaitley Bank”… hope you remember…

Arun (Father) to Daisy (wife): Yes

(Arun starts his bike and moves away. He is stopped by a traffic police on his way to “Jaitley Bank”)

Arun (Father): What happened yaar?

Traffic Police: I am not your yaar… show me your Aadhar…

                         You have jumped traffic signal and are now a criminal

(Arun said while taking out some cash from his pocket and giving it to traffic police)

Arun (Father): Enjoy your curry, I am in a hurry

(Traffic Police accepts cash and allows Arun to go with his hand actions)

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Lines to be narrated:-

Corruption kills honesty and just walks

Supported by money that do all the talks

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SCENE # 2

(Arun reaches bank and parks his bike where it is written “Parking Full”. Parking in-charge quickly comes)

Parking in-charge: Are you fool? Parking here is phool…

    We have limited space… take your bike to some other place

(Arun said while taking out some cash from his pocket and giving it to Parking in-charge)

Arun (Father): Enjoy your curry, I am in a hurry

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Lines to be narrated:-

Corruption creates case and space,

It’s an everyday thing that takes place

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SCENE # 3

(Arun enters inside “Jaitley Bank” and said to a person at the bank counter showing his old checkbook)

Arun (Father): Take a look... Issue me a new checkbook

(Bank Counter Person said to Arun while pointing his finger at the signboard above)

Bank Counter Person (Clerk): Written in grey... Today is a Half-Day… keep checkbook in tray

Arun (Father): Can’t wait… going to manager straight

(Bank Manager already knows Arun. He greeted Arun and said)

Bank Manager: Welcome Arun to “Jaitley Bank”. Tell me your worry… don’t be in a hurry

Arun (Father): Take a look. Issue me a new checkbook

Bank Manager: Clerk needs time to sing his rhyme

Arun (Father): I am in a hurry… can’t wait for your curry

Bank Manager: OK… You are a phone dealer… give me some feeler

Arun (Father): Will give you discount on price… now please be nice

(Bank Manager calls another clerk inside his cabin and asks him)

Bank Manager: Issue checkbook quickly, yours sincerely

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Lines to be narrated:-

Corruption defies rules and makes you fool,

It’s a pool of tools to make one drool

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SCENE # 4

(Arun comes out of “Jaitley Bank” and finds his bike missing from parking. He asks parking in-charge)

Arun (Father): Where is my bike? Are you on strike?

Parking in-charge: Your bike has been towed away… They wanted more money and not just a pay

(Arun hurriedly stops an auto rickshaw and asks)

Arun (Father): Put your meter down and take me to the town

Auto Rickshaw Driver: Meter not working… It’s jerking and jerking… Not asking plenty… just pay me seventy…  

Arun (Father): Why should I pay double? … Don’t invite yourself a trouble

Auto Rickshaw Driver: No time to confront… let me do some hunt

Arun (Father): No time to go nasty… OK, go at seventy

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Lines to be narrated:-

Corruption has touched a new low,

Even meter problems has begun to grow

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SCENE # 5

(As Arun is about to enter auto rickshaw, he is hit by two running people… one catching the other)

Stranger 1: Have you not seen… this sign of keeping city clean?

Stranger 2: Sorry sir... there is no dustbin, where can I throw my pumpkin?

(Stranger 1 said while stuffing waste inside the pocket of Stranger 2)

Stranger 1: Dustbins disappear... but, don’t fear, and keep all waste safely here

(Stranger 2 said while pulling out waste from his pocket)

Stranger 2: This is my pocket and not a socket

                    This is my gunny where I keep my money

Stranger 1: Ok then… pay fine otherwise I will take you to a shrine

(Stranger 2 said while secretly putting money inside the shirt pocket of Stranger 1)

Stranger 2: Let me offer you a meal so that you can close this deal

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Lines to be narrated:-

Rules and laws have become absurd,

Corruption is now the new curd

It rules above us all,

And can make even the noble fall

Let not it be the basis of our kindness,

Let’s all free ourselves from this blindness

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