Shumang Lila festival kick-started
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, January 10 2012:
Art and Culture Commissioner RK Nimai inaugurated the Akashwani Sumang Lila Festival 2012 in a simple function held today at Iboyaima Sumang Lila Shanglen.
The festival which is to be continued till January 19, the Sanaleipak Nachom Artist Association enchanted the crowd of the inaugural function with their play "Sanagi Ching" .
The function was graced by Art and Culture Commissioner RK Nimai as chief guest, programme executive of All India Radio Imphal M Kanankumar as president and eminent singer Laishram Birendrakumar as guest of honour respectively.
Speaking at the function, RK Nimai said that Sumang Lila is a powerful medium to provide current information to the public.
Highlighting the changing trend of Shumang Lila while it is compared to the older forms of play, he asserted that the traditional form of Lila should be preserved and maintained properly.
M Kanankumar maintained that All India Radio Imphal is now transmitting three different channels in which one channel is broadcasting Sumang Lila daily.
As an effort to promote Sumang Lila, AIR Imphal recorded and owned around 14 Lilas annually, he added.
He further informed that the objective for organising the festival is to entertain the public with Sumang Lilas in free of cost and also recording the latest productions.