The Laughter Club at Priyadarshani Park and Sports Complex was formed on 12th November, 1995 by Shri Kishore H Kuvavala. The Priyadarshani Laughter Club International was formed on 26th June, 1996.

At PDP we have held many laghter cpmpetitions over the years. The First Laughter Competition was organized on 14th April 1996, where more than 800 persons from all over Mumbai participated in the event. The second laughter competition was held on 8th December 1996. The third laughter competition of Laughter Shri-Shrimati and Laughter Kumar- Kumari of Mumbai was held on 14th February, 1999. The fourth laughter competition, held on 16th November 2003, was for Laughter Clubs and Schools of Mumbai. The requirement was that the clubs with minimum 20 members, among which 5 should be ladies, needed to perform 3 Laughters of their choice. The fifth laughter competition, held on 6th May 2007, which was the World Laughter Day, was only for Senior Citizens of Mumbai. More than 300 senior members took part in the event. There were around 100 persons from print and electronic media and all the TV Channels covered the event in their news.

In our times, all sports are competitive and lucrative in terms of popularity, fame, fashion and money. As a result trainees need to practice vigorously on regular basis and also require to give lot of time and money for the activity.

Laughter Therapy helps young trainees and sports person in following ways.

• When we laugh our Body and Mind remain together as a result we relieve instantly from thought process and so stress, depression.
• Improve Concentration which will help understand the game and apply the same during competitions.
• As they breathe 100% so the oxygen intake is much more result into better stamina and energy during the game.
• Laughter develops inter personnel relationship as a result they have wonderful understanding with team mates which helps in the game plan.
• Develop positive attitude over a period of time that helps sports person during the game to change loosing position to winning situation.
• Also help in developing leadership quality that makes successful captain or leader of the team.
• Able to sustain defeat, failure or nonperformance in the game and also dejection in studies or life. They will be bold, friendly and mixing so will be liked by members of team, officials and administrator.
• We call this as CHEESE which is indicated as under:
  
  
  • C = CONCENTRATION
  • H = HEALTH
  • E = EXERCISE
  • E = ELASTICITY
  • S = SELF CONFIDENCE
  • E = ENERGY

With all the above gain and no side effects, one should use Laughter Therapy in all Sporting Activities.