Balwant Thakur inaugurates Winter Theatre Workshop for Children

Children posing for a group photograph with Natrang founder Director, Padmashree Balwant Thakur and others at the inauguration of a Theatre Workshop in Jammu on Monday.
Children posing for a group photograph with Natrang founder Director, Padmashree Balwant Thakur and others at the inauguration of a Theatre Workshop in Jammu on Monday.

Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Dec 25: Theatre group Natrang’s most sought-after Winter Theatre Workshop for Children-2023 was inaugurated here today by Natrang president and founder Director, Padmashree Balwant Thakur.
Speaking on the occasion Thakur said that this unique camp intends to explore immense inner creative and artistic abilities in children.
Timing of the camp will be from 3:30 pm to 5.30 pm daily and the children will be trained under professionally trained directors like Neeraj Kant, Anil Tickoo and Sumeet Sharma.
Sunny Mujoo will be the dance director at the workshop which is being coordinated by Mohd Yaseen, holder of national scholarship and fellowship in Theatre.
The workshop will be for 15 days during which the children will work on personality development, confidence building, sharpening of communication skills, acting, play making process and much more with the help of highly innovative creative games and theatre exercises.
The children will also learn and explore themselves through highly developed theatre exercises which are in vogue in Europe and USA.
Natrang has planned to produce a short play as the focus of the workshop will be play production with children.
The longest living plays by children like ‘Mere Hisse Ki Dhoop Kahan Hai’ and ‘Aap Hamaare Hain Kaun’ are some of the productions of Natrang’s children theatre wing which are written and directed by Balwant Thakur.
Those who attended the inaugural session of the Workshop were Advik Sharma, Mehak Chib, Araiya Shan, Anadika Pandoh, Soujanya Shekhar, Ruhaan Chandan, Samrat Sharma, Supria Gorka, Aarjav Jain, Adeesha Singh, Jayaditya Singh, Prial, Ashok Gupta, Deshna Jain, Niddha Mahajan, Hriday Vashishth, Haardik Vashishth, Sahil Narwalia, Dheeraj Kotwal, Suneha Angural, Priya Kumari, Palshin Dutta, Sukriti Singh Jasrotia, Muskaan Sharma, Arun Sharma, Amit Rana, Arun Dev Verma, Vansh Pandotra, Vanshika Thakur, Radhika Sharma, Sushant Singh Charak, Sanket, Vishal Sharma, Aadesh Dhar, Deepshikha Sharma, Sunaina Sharma, Parul Sharma, Sneha Mukesh and Shriya Devi.