Excelsior Correspondent
POONCH, Aug 12: Natrang show series in Poonch district concluded with the staging of Balwant Thakur’s play ‘Iss Gran Gi Swarg Banai Lo’at Balnoi village of Mendar Tehsil.
The show series aimed at educating the rural folk about their burning problems featured 12 shows of three plays written devised and directed by Padamshree Balwant Thakur. The presentation of these shows was supported by Krishna Ghati Brigade Poonch and was attended largely by local population and school children.
The most noteworthy feature of the series was that the people of this remotest part of the State witnessed the theatre happening for the first time in their life. Compared with other mediums of communication like electronic and print media, the effective theatre engages the audiences in totality and thus makes them the ambassadors of the highly educative messages conveyed to them through the electrifying performances of professional actors.
The last show was performed at village Balnoi which is on LoC and interestingly the power-packed sound emerging out of these intense performances was echoing across boundaries.
The play ‘Iss Gran Gi Swarg Banai Lo’ propagates Prime Minister’s appeal of ‘Swach Bharat Abhiyaan’ addressing to the village folk to turn their village into an ultimate heaven for living by making few efforts and changes in life-style.
This play in a highly effective manner prepared the village folk to literally turn their beautiful village an ultimate and most sought-after place for living.
The artists who participated in the shows included Neeraj Kant, Mohd Yaseen, Juhi Singh, Ankush Lakhnotra, Rajan Thakyal, Deepak Mulsoo, Rohit Sharma, Sudesh Parihar, Shivam Singh, Pankaj Verma, Harbans Lal, Kuldeep Raj Gupta, Sonu and Mandeep Singh.
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