Garden Natak Mela organised at Baradari Gardens, Patiala

Tribune News Service

Patiala, January 5

Despite severe cold, the National Theatre Arts Society (NTAS) in collaboration with Sarbat Da Bhala Charitable Trust, organised their 234th monthly Garden Natak Mela at Baradari Gardens here on Tuesday. Chief guest socialite architect LR Gupta, along with special guests, dedicated the event to celebrate the 400th birth anniversary of Guru Tegh Bahadur.

Gupta inspired the writers-artists to prepare and stage plays on the life and sacrifice of Guru Teg Bahadar. He presented a cash award of Rs 5,000 to NTAS and lauded duo Pran Sabharwal-Sunita Sabharwal for regularly continuing Garden Theatre Movement for the last 20 years covering 234 monthly episodes. The programme, included Sunita-Pran Sabharwal directed plays Ajmer Aulakh’s ‘Sukki Kukh’ and ‘Avaisley Yuddhan Di Naika’ besides Gopal Sharma other artists who took part in it were Jagdish Kumar, Rajat Chauhan, Rajshri, Manisha, Sunny Sidhu, Santosh Rani, Aman Bains, Shubham won much applause for their arts.