Nisha Chettri

Kalimpong March 28, 2015: 

Although the theaters have given countless faces to the film industries, the nerve centers of performances seem to be on a stage where the curtains come down and a lasting applause lingers for hours. The stage show, skit, or drama is now an endangering passion in the hills which in other hand is a booming industry in other states. With the drive to preserve the significance of dramas, artists belonging to different organizations came together to celebrate the world’s theater day in Gorkha Dukha Niwarak Samaylan hall today with dramatists and performers from around the three hill subdivision. Throwing light on the importance of drama, Arun Prakash Rai a dramatist asserts to conserve drama rather than celebrating it, addressing the people present in the hall, he said ‘more than celebrating, let us preserve this day by giving importance to theaters.’ However, Bikram Parajulee a film director and a coordinator of today’s program also nodded his head with agreement on the fact that movies and film industries are obscuring the insight of dramas, explaining more about the context he said, ‘dramas undeniably has a good market and we have good dramatists, performers and even platforms but what we lack here is, good organizers’ Before theaters get branded as a history, the concerned artists would like to gallop in order to form a registered organization to protect dramas, ‘we might possibly affiliate the organization to National School of Drama, Sikkim’ adds Parajulee who prolongs his conversation with the Journalists saying that they would now come up with new dramas in every 2-3 months and promote new artists. ‘We would also like to arrange a workshop related to dramas once in a while’ said Parajulee before winding up. However the assemblage later presented a skit in the hall which was undoubtedly appreciated with lasting applause's.