‘होगी जय, होगी जय, हे पुरूषोत्तम नवीन।’ Saying so, the curtains were raised on the musical drama based on ‘Ram Ki Shakti Pooja’. The drama was jointly staged by Chinmaya Vishwa Vidyapeeth, Kerala Hindi Sahitya Mandal, and Roopvani Theater Benaras on 26 December 2022 at CVV’s facility on Warriam Road, Kochi.
The play was directed by Vyomesh Shukla, a renowned Hindi poet, who has been honoured with the ‘Bismillah Khan Yuva Puraskar’ in the year 2017 by ‘Sangeet Natak Akademi’, New Delhi. The music was composed by director JP Sharma and Pandit Ashish Mishra, blending the drama with the help of western instruments with folk tunes as per the poem’s demand.
On behalf of the Kerala Hindi Sahitya Mandal, Prof. Sasidharan from the Cochin University of Science and Technology delivered the welcome address. The programme was by Dr. Rajnish Kumar Mishra (Assistant Professor, School of Linguistics and Literary Studies, CVV).