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Ludhiana Personality :: Nirmal Rishi
Theatre has been a passion with Ms Nirmal Rishi right from school days. She chose to be a games instructor for she excelled in various games both at school and college level. For her M.Phil degree, she had joined Government College for Physical Education, Patiala, and performed a piece of mono acting, which was highly lauded. Mr Harpal Tiwana and his wife Neena had come to Patiala to start theatre and were looking for talented young artists. The Tiwanas, graduates from National School of Drama, were keen to establish Punjabi theatre. Nirmal Rishi started acting in plays from 1966. The first play was ‘Aduhre Sapne’. A play by Albert Camus, ‘And in the Dry Mountains’, was translated by Rishi and Tiwanas into Punjabi. Om Puri, the famous international actor, also a product of NSD, performed in its Punjabi Version.
‘Kanak Di Bali’ and ‘Loha Kut’, evergreen plays of Balwant Gargi, were staged by them a number of times. In the preceding years she acted in several plays, the most notable was ‘Hind di Chaadar’ based on teachings of Guru Tegh Bhadur. The team shifted to Ludhiana to give impetus to Punjabi theatre. In fact, Punjabi Bhavan, the open-air theatre, came alive when the Tiwanas and their troupe Punjab Kala Manch staged plays regularly. They translated Ramayana in Punjabi and held shows morning and evening to packed houses. The other popular plays staged from 1975 to 1985 were ‘Diwa Bale Sari Raat’, ‘Chandigarh Musibet Da Ghar’, ‘Garam Bazaar’,’ Behrupiya’ and many others. They went about it in a very systematic way. They advertised for plays just like movies are advertised by carrying posters on rickshaws. Sometimes Harpal Tiwana would go in the open, colourful trolley advertising the new play. Those were the days when they played to the packed audiences. They also staged special shows for workers, students etc.
After the riots of 1984 they shifted the base to Patiala, but the Punjabi theatre had lost its glow. But she continued acting in plays when the manch staged these in London, Canada and America during the early nineties. Then they staged a play ‘Long Da Lishkara’ which was extremely popular. Later, it was made into the movie of the same name.
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