Balwant Thakur’s ‘Choona Hai Aasmaan’ inspires youth to rise above divisions and dream big

Jammu, 4^th October, 2025: Balwant Thakur’s most aspiring play ‘Choona Hai Aasmaan’ staged here today at Natrang Studio Theatre. Devised in his new theatre methodology largely inspired from the theatre of images, the play prepares the youth- the majority population of the state to strive for excellence in life. The most striking feature of the play was the presentation style which remarkably narrated the entire text through a new visual language expressed through spectacular group actors compositions and images.

Performed by young actors the play begins with local problems like growing involvement of youth in drugs and the decaying respectability among youth for elders. Later a young-man emerges in the scene who represents the youth- the biggest work-force of any Country. This Youngman wants to lead in the world. He also wants to be like the people of the most progressive nations of the world. Despite making all-out efforts he finds that he is unable to make any headway in the present circumstances. He is shattered by finding that people out here are engaged in petty fights initiated by the anti-nationals. Young minds are being infused with negative thoughts, thus ruining their life and career. The progressive nations have arisen above such small things. The boundaries are being broken and the nations are coming together to see the larger welfare of the mankind .He finds himself trapped in such a system where people instead of supporting him and his vision are pushing him towards darkness where he will end up ruining himself. The people out here are being exploited and pushed to a path of darkness for small petty political gains. He feels strongly that peace is the pre-requisite for any kind of progress and development. His aspiration of scaling new heights and touching the skies could only be achieved when there are no disturbances, no chaos, no space for hatred for each other but an inspiring peaceful environment which encourages every-one to aspire and achieve. He has a dream for his village where no one fights in the name of religion, where there is no hatred, no separatist thought but a vision of progress and prosperity. The play concludes with the youth pledging to rise above small issues to touch new horizons and scale ultimate heights.

The artists who gave remarkable performances included Vijay Bhat, Neeraj Kant, Mitali Sarmal, Mohd. Yaseen, Pawan Verma, Parmjeet Singh, Prerna Sharma, Chandani Rana, Sahil Sharma, Kananpreet Kaur, Khushal Bhat, Sanjay Singh, Aryan Sharma, Kartik Kumar. Rahul Singh, Priyal Ashok Gupta, Simran Bhagat, Gauri Thakur, Vandana Thakur, Shaptan Singh, Lovish, Khushal Bhat, Mihir Gujral, Aadesh Dhar, Vansh Pandotra, Krishay Bhatia, Sanket Bhagat, Karanveer and Sheetal Sen.