Celebrating the festivity of Republic Day, the 29th lokrang festival begun with great fanfare at the premises of Ravindra Bhavan on Sunday. Governor Ram Naresh Yadav inaugurated lokrang-2014.
Congratulating the winners of different competitions and sharing greetings of Republic Day, Governor Yadav said that India represents a cultural country of diversity and unity. This diversity and tradition represents our nation in real sense. Our responsibility lies in carry and spread the same ethnicity of cultural values. Youths in large numbers should come forward and participate to conserve great culture of India. lokrang festival conveys message of brotherhood and unity among all. Seeing at the participating artists in lokrang festival who arrives from various states and countries makes us feel that world has come under one roof.
The Governor further expressed that the festival generating a good ambience of cultural values will convey the message of morality and a good demeanor into the world. State Culture, Tourism Minister Surendra Patwa, the special guest in opening ceremony of lokrang while expressing gratitude and congratulating winners and felicitated persons said, that lokrang festival is one of the prestigious cultural festival for which, the people wait for whole year. Artists from the entire world participate in it and share their cultural bonding with each other. This is the great occasion of our beautiful binds everyone.
In the opening ceremony, various prestigious awards of Culture Department were awarded. After this in the special cultural activity of inaugural ceremony, a dance presentation by around 200 artists ‘Amrit: Madhya Pradesh’ was presented in lyrical form in synchronization with folk tunes, beats and perfect rhythm. This special performance for lokrang was directed by lokendra Trivedi, theatre artist. ‘Amrit: Madhya Pradesh’ portrayed the life style, traditional practices and cultural glory prevalent in various sacred cities viz. Orcha, Maihar, Datia, Onkareshwar, Ujjain, Amarkantak, Chitrakoot, Sanchi, Hussain Tekri and Kundalpur.
On the second day, of lokrang festival on Monday musical presentation 'Kindra' of this evening about 80 folk and classical artists gave performance of String Instruments. In this, the string instruments Rabab, Saran of Kashmir, Kamaicha, Ravanhatta, morchand, sindhi sarangi of Rajasthan, ektara, tambura, rekdia of Madhya Pradesh, Benjo, Chikara of Chhattisgarh, dotara and gubgubi of Bengal and classical instruments Sitar, Santoor and Violin, Sarangi and Sarod were played. In this recitation concert, the melodious tunes of musical string and percussion instruments of different states of India hymned the, tunes patriotic songs and other regional and folk songs of Madhya Pradesh. In this This presentation was directed by Anil Mishra.
later Sarvjeet Kaur awardee of Devi Ahilaya Samman 2009-10 gave performance of folk songs. This was followed by presentation of Silver String Band of Russia and dance performances of Indonesia under the presentation of Foreign Dance- Deshantar.