The 11^th Padma Shree Devilal Samar Smriti Natya Samaroh concluded after 4 days of cultural presentations. The Bhartendu Natya Academy Rangmandal, Lucknow presented ‘Ye Duniya Agar Mil Bhi Jaye’, directed by Chitra Mohan on the last day.

Honorary Secretary Riyaz Tehsin welcomed the chief guest B.R Bhati- Regional Director CCRT, Prakash Khangde- Director of Lok Kala Mandal Mumbai and Ashok Jain.

The play extended with two different yet, entwined stories. The first part of the play was a satire by Sharad Joshi on elections. The second part of the play revolves around the main character called Pappu who gets tangled in love and communalism.

Ashok Kumar Jain, coordinator of the event informed that the artists of the play included Ganga Prasad, Karishma Saxena, Divya Singh, Raju Pandey, Priti Kaur, Sandhya Deep, Manoj S, Sunil Dixit, Jai Tiwari, Hemant Kumar, Ayaz Khan, Abhishek Kumar, Prince Sonkar, Akhil Tiwari, Alok Shrivastava, Ankit Shrivastava, Ankita Pandey and Manoj Sharma.

Towards the end of the play, all the artists were garlanded and thanked for the excellent performances.