theatre and art lovers of tricity reunited at the iconic tagore theatre today to witness the beauty of panchlight a romcom musical production by a university in solandirected by ankur saxena bashar and produced by vice chancellor atul khosla and vice president avnee khosla panchlight narrates the tale of a small village in north india that still has no electricity and its people live in darkness engrossed in its own little sorrows and joyspro chancellor vishal anand said we believe in bringing multifaceted exposure to students it is a way to bring their creativity to the fore which opens the hearts and minds to new thoughts and ideasadded ankur who juggles various roles including that of a thespian director voice coach performance artist poet and playwright and currently teaches at the university as an assistant professor for performing arts we need to act and tell stories of our past to understand our present panchlight is one such story which explores in betweenness of things a village which is in transition moving towards modernity but hasnt reached there yetatul shared the plot of panchlight is really intriguing the innocence and simplemindedness of the villagers could be observed through the superstitions which surround the panchlight lamp and through the depiction of their struggles and actions when they are subjected to modern technologyhe furthered through the medium of this play we have been fortunate to provide a platform to an array of talented artists who have done a marvelous job in panchlight i am grateful that their talent has been recognized and the audience has thoroughly enjoyed watching the same the story of panchlight has been penned by phanishwar nath mandal renu who is reckoned to be one of the most successful and influential writers of modern hindi literature in the postpremchand era whereas the dramaturge credit goes to indian film actor director and lyricist ranjit kapoorthis play features the best of all worlds right from an interesting storyline to an aweinspiring star cast panchlight is an absolute consortium of art i am grateful to be a part of this masterpiece and i congratulate the entire team of panchlight for this spurring success smiled avneethe songs of this play have been produced by prasann soni and ankur bashar and the video documentation and photography has been handled by priyansh bishal barkha and ritulashoo khosla is the mentor and poonam nanda was the guiding light for this playpanchlight features vasundhara ashutosh kalsang bhutia avishek mandel kaustubhi khyati khushi samhita karan panwar prabhas roohani vaidehi aparajitaa arisha kashvi palak nandini shubh bishal borah kartik bharat raunak shaurya joshi deepak tiwary kavita ankit sharma and raghav in pivotal roles