Excelsior Correspondent
KATRA, Apr 17: The last show of the cultural extravaganza ‘Rangla Jammu’-a presentation of Natrang Jammu conceived, designed and directed by Balwant Thakur was presented at the jam-packed Matrika Auditorium of Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University (SMVDU), here today.
Organized by Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Shrine Board, the presentation added another feather to the ongoing National Level Management Fest-‘TATVA-13’ of SMVDU.
Speaking on the occasion, Roop Avtar Kaur, Registrar of SMVDU said that it is an opportune moment for students of the University to get exposed to the ethnic culture of the region, particularly the performing arts heritage of Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Hills.
Others who spoke on the occasion included Prof D Mukhopadhyay, Dean College of Management who dwelt in detail about the importance of the holding of such activities for the larger benefit of the students.
The speakers said that it was an excellent occasion of cultural learning and highly rewarding expertise of watching the history of folks heroes and cultural roots. Such reasonably power packed performances will definitely revolutionize the cultural scene of this region and therefore the folks shunning their culture, disowning their roots won’t solely be ashamed of what wrong they need wiped out distorting their own identities.
The electrifying presentation of ‘Rangla Jammu’ kept the audience spellbound and the artists were repeatedly applauded. This superb bouquet of rarest performing art traditions fantastically unfolded the creative traditions of the hills of Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Shrine.
The jam-packed audience at Matrika Auditorium was transported along to a dramatic journey of rarest singing traditions, artistic expressions and festivities of Dogras.
The amazing ‘Rangla Jammu’ opened with Late Dinu Bhai Pant’s poem ‘Mere Dese Daa Shalepa Meri Akhi Kane Dikh’ (See the chic great thing about my land through my eyes) undoubtedly a very this that came on stage afterwards was simply magical.
It started with the normal instrumental type of Jammu and therefore the show was brightened up with rarest of the people instruments like ‘King’, ‘Narsingha’, ‘Flute’, ‘Sarangi’ and ‘Dogra Dhol’. This was followed by the rarest singing traditions of Dogras like ‘Karkan’, Bhakhan’, ‘Geetru’ and ‘Shinjan’.
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