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Longest Performance Stage artiste claims world record Sushil Manav Tribune News Service

Rohit Kaushik plays Karna during the record-breaking feat of staging “Chhata Pandav” in Fatehabad on Sunday. A Tribune photograph Fatehabad, March 8 Rohit Kaushik, a stage artiste, today claimed to have set a new world record for the longest duration of stage performance by enacting a play, “Chhata Pandav”, continuously for 24 hours and 8 minutes during which he staged the play 25 times. Kaushik says he will now approach the Limca Book of World Records and the Guinness Book of World Records, whom, he says, he had informed before his record-breaking feat in advance. Rohit Kaushik, a resident of Bhiwani, who has been active in the field of theatre in the area for quite some time, started his performance in the local Manohar Memorial College of Education on March 7 at 11.55 am and finished at 3.27 pm today and during this period he staged “Chhata Pandav” 25 times, taking a rest of five minutes after each performance. “The earlier world record stands in the name of a duo, Krishana Bhorkar and Sanvinder Mukesh, who staged a play, “The Blame”, 16 times on May 28, 2007, in 13 hours and 15 minutes of which the actual performance time was 10 hours and 40 minutes, the rest being the time of intervals,” Kaushik claimed, while talking to The Tribune. Kaushik says his performance is better in terms of the number of shows, period of performances, besides the fact that his was a solo performance while the earlier record was created by a duo. Several prominent persons of the town, who witnessed the record-breaking performance by Rohit, included Sanjay Arora, media coordinator to Haryana Chief Minister, Subhash Sharma, director, DK Kaushik, principal of MM College, Mamta Chaudhary, principal of the MM College of Education, Brij Bhushan Midha and Bhisham Pitameh. “Chhata Pandav” is the story of Mahabharata character Karna and has been taken from Shivaji Sawant’s famous play “Mritunjaya”. Bhagwan Dass, Harpal Insan and Sooraj Kumar played harmonium, tabla and flute, respectively, during all 25 performances.