Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Oct 6: Natrang children outshined at 25th National Theatre Festival at Jabalpur today where they staged Padamshree Balwant Thakur’s highly acclaimed Hindi play ‘Aap Hamare Hain Kaun’.
In connection with the Silver Jubillee of Vivechana, the 5th day of the festival created history for being the first children theatre group to make it to the National Theatre Festival.
A 23 member Natrang team led by Neeraj Kant and Mohd Yaseen participated in the National Theatre Festival.
The play ‘Aap Hamare Hain Kaun’ shakes parents, educationists and guardians of the 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 children who performed in the play were Sumedha Manhas, Gopi Sharma, Sanchita, Soujanya Shekhar, Agam Kaur, Mihir Gujral, Vrinda Gujral, Sushant Singh Charak, Asma Gul, Aarti Devi, Vrinda Sharma, Sanvi Anand, Riya Jandial, Saba Jamwal, Vedhant Suri, Sanket Bhagat, Palshin Dutta, Kushaan Baliya and Rudra Kohli.
The supporting team included Neeraj Kant (Directorial Assistance), Mohd Yaseen (Coordination) and Rakesh Kona (Rhythm/Sounds).
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