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Jaspal Bhatti Humor Festival

Chandigarh, 02 March, 2016: India’s most loved humorist , Padma Bhushan Jaspal Bhatti’s vision is alive and kicking. The Chandigarh Administration is celebrating the contribution made by Sh. Bhatti by organizing a ‘Jaspal Bhatti Humor Festival’ this year coinciding with the celebrated humorist’s birthday this year, which falls on 3rd March.

 Addressing the press, Sh. Jitender Yadav, IAS, Director, Department of Cultural Affairs, said that the event would be a two day affair and would showcase comedians pan India. The event hosted by the Administration will be staged at Tagore Theatre on the 3rd and 4th of March this year.

Giving details about the event, Sh. Yadav said that as a tribute to the great vision of Sh.  Jaspal Bhatti, artists from Mumbai, Delhi, Punjab were going to be a part of the festival. AIB, Jaswinder Bhalla, Bal MUkand Sharma, Rana Ranbir, Surendra Sharma,Deepak Raja, Amit Tandon, Rupesh Tillu and Sumedh Shinde would be the star attractions of the 2 day festival.


On this occasion, Smt. Savita Bhatti said that it was a commendable effort to pay respect to the man who had made Chandigarh his personal and professional base. “The festival will be a living testimony to the ground breaking work Sh. Bhatti did and it will be our effort to showcase different forms of humor through the coming years”. 

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