Balwant Thakur Brings Back Hit Satirical Play ‘Sainyan Bhaye Kotwal’ with Free Entry to Beat the Heat

Jammu 29th of May, 2025 : To beat the heat Natrang is going to stage its all-time hit super comedy play ‘Sainyan Bhaye Kotwal’ under the direction of Padmashiri Balwant Thakur on Monday, 2nd of June, 2025 at Abhinav Theatre, Jammu at 6 pm.

In the larger interest of popularizing theatre,the entry to the show has been kept free. Written by Basant Sabnis, the music of the play has been scored by eminent singer and musician Suraj Singh. Giving details about this very special show, Balwant Thakur informed that the most noteworthy feature of this show is the featuring of top-ranking actors of Jammu & Kashmir. The lead role is being played by Anil Tickoo who is the one and only National Academy Awardee actor of J&K. The play also features Six National Awardees/fellows/scholars/State Awardees viz., Sanjeev Gupta (Yuva Sangeet Natak Akademi Awardee), Neeraj Kant (National Fellow), Meenakshi Bhagat (National Scholar), Shivam Singh (National Scholar), Suraj Singh (State Awardee), The off-stage team also features Pawan Verma (National Fellow/State Awardee), Mohd Yaseen, (National Fellow/Scholar), and Kananpreet Kaur (National Scholar). On the occasion Balwant Thakur desired all theatre lovers not to miss this star-studded performance featuring highly decorated team of actors and off-stage experts.He further informed that Mr. Brij Mohan Sharma IFS, Principal Secretary, Department of Culture Govt. of UT of J&K will be the Chief Guest on the occasion.

Play ‘Sainyan Bhaye Kotwal’ opens at a kingdom ‘Surya Nagar’ which is shown suffering from corruption, nepotism, and lawlessness. The king is busy in hunting and foreign tours and the functionaries of his government are busy in making the best use of his absence. Kotwal (Chief of police) of the kingdom dies and the king authorizes the Prime Minister to appoint a suitable person at his place. Hawaldar, the only contender of the post who was waiting for the last ten years for Kotwal to die, gets a big setback when Prime Minister appoints his own brother-in-law to the post. Now Hawaldar has no other option but to get the new Kotwal trapped in some criminal case so as to show him the exit. Kotwal, who is fond of music, is taken to a court singer where he falls in love with her and visits regularly. The court singer is already engaged with Hawaldar, who encourages her to continue befooling Kotwal and demand royal things to get her love. In this process most of the royal things are stolen to gift the court singer but the king comes to know only when his royal bed is found missing. The play is a symbolic picture of contemporary political happenings. A caricature of the bad governance has been beautifully depicted in the play.

The other noteworthy performers include Pankaj Sharma an established senior actor of Jammu stage, Subash Jamwal (Stage/Film/TV Actor), T Adaksh Bagal, Kartik Kumar, Aryan Sharma, Vansh Pandotra, Arun Dev Verma, Simran Bhagat and Prerna Sharma. Balwant Thakur assured that this performance of the play ‘Sainyan Bhaye Kotwal’ is going to be remembered for its mind  blowing acting, spectacular design, soulful music and above all hilarious stage actions.