Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Oct 15: On 227th birth anniversary of Maharaja Gulab Singh, Natrang will twice screen first ever movie on the first Dogra ruler of J&K on October 17 at Abhinav Theatre at 2:00 pm (exclusively for women) and at 5:00 pm (for general audience).
The movie with name ‘Gulab Gatha’ by Balwant Thakur is produced by Natrang and sponsored by Maharaja Gulab Singh Memorial Trust Jammu.
Sharing details, Balwant Thakur informed that this will be a unique venture of Natrang aimed at documentation and dissemination of the untold glorious history of Jammu & Kashmir State.
He thanked Dr. Karan Singh for inspiring him and trusting his abilities as a Writer, Producer and Director to accomplish the first ever movie on Dogra history.
The lead role of Maharaja Gulab Singh in the movie has been played by FTII’s meritorious product Sunil Kumar Palwal who has many films and TV serials to his credit including Jolly LLB2, Mughal-e-Azam, Yeh Dil Ramta Yogi, Chera-the unknown mask, Satin Sin B’s, MTV Rush, Shapptah, Rakshak, Sapne Suhaane Ladakpan Ke etc.
He is supported by prominent TV and stage actors of Jammu like Arvind Anand, Madan Rangeela, Janak Khajuria, Anil Tickoo, Neeraj Kant, Vijay Bhat, Sanjeev Gupta, Suresh Kumar, Subash Jamwal, Sumeet Sharma, Gaurav Jamwal, Rahul Sharma, Aftab Singh Chauhan, Meera Tapasvi, Aarushi Thakur Rana, Gauri Thakur, Mohd Yaseen, Rahul Singh, Goutam Sharma, Ashish Parihar, Brijesh Avtar Sharma, Sanket Bhagat, Sushant Singh Charak, Aviral Kapoor, Shivam Singh, Kuldeep Angral, Shivam Sharma and Mohsin Malik.
The technical crew for the movie came from Mumbai and the movie was technically coordinated by Maloop Singh, Mohd Yaseen and Gaurav Jamwal.
The movie ‘Gulab Gatha’ is about the journey of a soldier who achieves great success at everything he initiated. His unquestionable obligatory obedience towards Lahore Durbar, his unconditional sacrifice and his conception of a kingdom has been regarded and given value.
Gulab Singh as an emperor held the qualities of a courageous warrior. He was a normal person with no lineage of royalty but he established himself as a King with the help of his bravery and continued to keep a hold on his empire because of his well-planned strategic and diplomatic intelligence.
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