Excelsior Correspondent
Jammu, Feb 4: Natrang staged back to back two shows of the mega cultural show ‘Rangla Jammu’ on the opening day of 101st Indian Science Congress being held at University of Jammu.
Governor NN Vohra was the chief guest during the first show and Prof RC Sobti, President Indian Science Congress Association presided over the second show. Prominent personalities who graced the show included Usha Vohra First Lady of the State, Prof MPS Ishar, Vice Chancellor, University of Jammu, Shantmanu, Divisional Commissioner Jammu, Naveen K Chowdhary, Principal Secretary to Governor, Pawan Kotwal, Commissioner PHE, and Ajeet Kumar Sahu DC Jammu.
Designed and directed by Padamshree Balwant Thakur and presented by Natrang Jammu this 150 performers power packed showcased the ultimate heights of the glorification of Jammu’s diverse culture and heritage. This world class performance kept the audience spellbound and the artists were repeatedly applauded for their mind-blowing performance.
‘Rangla Jammu’ is the unique cultural album of Jammu region showcasing the variegated variety of different colours, rhythms, costumes, designs patterns and artistic expressions.
This superb bouquet of rarest performing art traditions fantastically unfolded the rare creative traditions and cultural expressions of Jammu. ‘Rangla Jammu’ opened with Late Dinu Bhai Pant’s poem ‘Mere Dese Daa Shelepa 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’. This singing community that is additional called warriors have the distinctive singing traditions as their singing never stops be it birth or death.
The prominent artists who featured in the Rangla Jammu included Arvind Anand, Suresh Kumar, Madan Rangeela, Krishna Kumari, Subash Jamwal, Neeraj Kant, Romallo Ram, Iqrar Mohd, Shamsher Mohd., Kamal Sharma, Uplaksh Singh Kotwal, Mohd. Yaseen, Pawan Verma, Dimple Sharma, Ankush Lakhnotra, Ashwani Bali, Pankaj Verma, Namit Dubey, Shivam Bhat, Syed Muddasir, Mahikshit Singh Langeh, Vickey Kaw, Susheel Raina, Vishal Sharma, Sajra Qadir, Namrata Chib, Sakshi Prakash, Monika Sharma, Monika Choudhary, Tania Choudhary, Taniya Dogra, Suhasini Antaal, Meenakshi Thakur, Sarika Sharma, Preeti, Kajal Singh, Aarti Verma, Anita Dhar, Sushma Rajput, Sumegha Bakshi, Vanshika Gupta, Ruqaya Khatoon Qazi, Vrinda Baksi, Shafiqua Ahad, Mrinalini Anand, Ritika Raina, Surya Salathia, Simple Jamwal, Shivani Dhar, Komal Kumari, Rupali Gupta, Rasmeet Kour, Anainya Singh Rana, Shilpa Chandan, Bavneet Kour, Pallavi Khajuria, Sarabjeet Kaur, Harmeen Kour, Husnal Kaur, Simriti Gupta, Harshish Kaur, Bhagyashree Kotwal, Tanya Chib, Zoya Qureshi, Andin Kaur, Akshata Gupta, Swastika Jamwal, Siya Bhatia, Muskan Magotra, Dechan Zangmo, Padma Ladol, Tsetan Dolkar, Dechan Yangdol, Stanzin Nurboo, Jigmath Sonam Gyalpo, Sherap Chospel, Stanzin Dorjay, Rahul, Ashwani, Deepak Kumar, Neetan, John, Sandeep Mehra, Ricky Malhotra, Rakesh Kumar, Lucky, Vipan Kumar, Rasmeet Singh, Harbaksh Singh, Janeet Singh, Jagdeep Singh, Harvinder Singh, Harnek Singh, Sukhwinder Singh, Charan Veer Singh, Shaptan Singh, Krishan Singh, Ranjeet Singh, Vijay Singh, Shambu Singh, Bhuri Singh, Baldev Raj, Mukthar Singh, Mohan Lal, Balwan Singh, Subash Chand, Sunder Singh, Balbir Singh, Madhu Bala, Saras Bharti, Rajan Thakyal, Des Raj, Thakur Dass, Babu Ram, Ashok Kumar, and Romal Chand.
Choreography was done by Rakesh Konna, Assistant Choreographer Satish Chander, Show Coordination Sumeet Sharma, Aarushi Thakur, Production Controller Neeraj Kant, Mohd Yaseen, Publicity Design Chander Shekhar, Lights Suraj Ganjoo, Sets Nariender Kumar, Naresh Malhotra, William Singh, Shubham Aggarwal, Make-Up Kamal Sharma, Sound Editing Surinder Manhas, Sequence Coordinator Gauri Thakur and Costumes & Properties were lookedafter by Ashwani Bali, Ankush Lakhnotra and Pawan Verma. The presentations of the show were done by Aarushi Thakur.
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