Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Sept 23: Balwant Thakur’s highly acclaimed Hindi play by children ‘Aap Hamare Hain Kaun’ has been selected for National Theatre Festival being held at Bharat Bhawan in Bhopal (M.P.) Aap Hamare Hain Kaun being presented on October 14, 2015 is going to be the only play by children in this ten day festival in which top professional groups/directors and artists are being featured. Terming this as one of the historic accomplishment of Jammu’s young talent, Director Natrang Balwant Thakur informed that 25 outstandingly talented children are going to make Jammu proud for being the only children group of India bestowing this rarest honor to compete with the legends of Indian theatre. To name few include Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Chetna Jalan, Yash Paul Sharma, and Suneel Sinha (Maachis fame).
Written and directed by Balwant Thakur, Aap Hamare Hain Kaun has already made a mark at the national level for being the largely travelled children play of India known for new dramatic idiom and most striking contemporary comment by children.
Play Aap Hamare Hain Kaun’ shakes parents, educationists/guardians of society out of reverie of materialism, consumerism and unbridled desires. This play compels elders to look around and clear the mess they have created due to their own amorous ambitions and rat race. Parents see in their children an extension of their unfulfilled dreams and force them to become stereotypes and kill the bountiful charm in them. In a pursuit to make them top professionals, doctors, engineers and civil servants, they are subjected to every kind of cruelty. The children become mechanical and hardly get time to discover their real self. Prevalent educational system adds further insult to the injury and their creativity gets scuttled and children grow up devoid of values.
The proud Jammu children who are going to be a part of this history in making include Juhi Singh, Gopi Sharma, Sanchita Dubey, Sanyam Gupta, Shreya Gupta, Agam Kaur, Mihir Gujral, Manya Gujral, Sanya Gupta, Asma Gul, Ayn Bhola, Chander Pratap Singh Bhau, Chirag Anand, Sanvi Anand, Riya Jandial, Saba Jamwal, Shivangini Sharma, Divyan Sharma, Sahil Singh Anand, Vedhant Suri, Sanket Bhagat and Rudra Kohli.
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