1. |
1978 |
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NARAMEDH |
Play |
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Rajat Ghosh |
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Music |
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Debashis Dasgupta |
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Makeup |
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B. Brothers |
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Stage |
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Meghnad
Bhattacharya |
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Light |
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Meghnad
Bhattacharya |
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Direction |
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Meghnad
Bhattacharya |
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First Show |
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25.12.77
RANGANA THEATRE |
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Last Show |
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22.02.78 JOGESH MIME
ACADEMY |
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Total Show |
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5 |
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2. |
1979 |
Play |
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Chandan
Sen |
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DUI HUJURER GAPPO |
Music |
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Bhaskar Mitra / Murari Roy
Chowdhury |
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Makeup |
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Shakti Sen / Panchanan Manna. |
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Set
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Ranajit Chakraborty / Khaled Chowdhury |
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Light |
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Konishka Sen / Somenath Chattopadhyay |
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Direction |
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Meghnad Bhattacharya |
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First Show |
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2nd Nov’1979 , Bijon Theatre |
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1st Revival |
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25th Dec ‘1997 , Uttam Mancha |
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2nd Revival |
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22nd
Dec ’2013 ,Town Hall , Agartala , Tripura
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Total Show |
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340 (Running ) |
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SYNOPSIS: THE STORY OF TWO MASTERS Mikhail Saltikav Schedrin was one of the greatest Russian
writer who adopted satire most
effectively in the field of
literature. He was one of the favourite writer of Lenin. The Drama “The Story of two Masters ” has been adopted from one of his compositions entitled ‘Tales’. The two masters,a retired Politician and a retired Police Officer while listening to a
Hawker, sudedenly reached an unknown island named ’Titirmou’. In that serene
bouyant holyland they came in contact with the simple folk & discovered
that abstisence from work is a crime and that every one has equal share in
the golden harvest in the earth . How the two masters could acquiesce in a situation of this
nature ? So they adopted a Strategy . Specially youth of that holyland
beaming life and vigour, who worked hard on land were allured to temtation.
How this triggered off an intriguining
episode and what ends the two masters met when the “Wise man” of the island
stepped in. ? What do they unfold for our modern society? |
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Critic: Cast:
(2015) Ananda : Uttam
Dey Gajanan(G.G.): Meghnad
Bhattacharya Brakreswar (B.B.): Subrato
Bhowal Titirmou’s
Residents :: Satya: Ajoy
Bandopadhyay Durba: Indrajita
Chakraborty Gyan Khuro : Parimal
Chakraborty Bansi : Dhurjati
De Fagu : Pradip
Das Tagar : Sampa
Sena Ratan : Jayanta Das Haru : Sukharanjan
Bhattacharya Others: Goutam
Sardar , Susanta Dasgupta , Goutam Sen , Samir Deb ,
Sukanya Chakraborty , Anamika Bhattacharya, Sudipta Banerjee ,
Subhamita Banerjee. |
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3. |
1981 |
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SADHUSANGO |
Play |
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Chandan
Sen |
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Music |
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Debashis
Dasgupta |
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Makeup |
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Shakti
Sen |
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Set Design |
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Ranajit Chakraborty |
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Light |
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Kaniska
Sen |
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Direction |
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Meghnad
Bhattacharya |
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First Show |
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30.11.81
BIJAN THEATRE |
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Next Show |
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21.06.98
WASHINGTON |
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Total Show |
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81 |
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4. |
1982 |
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KALBIHANGA (Short Play) |
Play |
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Manoj
Mitra |
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Makeup |
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Sripoti
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Set
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Dipen Sen |
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Light |
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Gopal
Das |
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Direction |
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Meghnad
Bhattacharya |
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First Show |
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02.12.1982
Bijan Theatre |
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Last Show |
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09.10.1983
Bijan Theatre |
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Total Show |
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6 |
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5. |
1983 |
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ANUBIKSHAN |
Play |
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Chandan
Sen |
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Music |
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Debashis
Dasgupta |
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Makeup |
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Sakti
Sen |
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Set
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Dipen
Sen/Shyamal saha |
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Light |
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Gopal
Das |
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Direction |
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Meghnad
Bhattacharya |
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First Show |
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16.03.1983
Bijan Theatre |
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Last Show |
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08.12.1983
Bijan Theatre |
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Total Show |
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26 |
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6. |
1983 |
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SONAR MATHAOWALA
MANUSH |
Play |
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Chandan
Sen |
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Music |
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Debashis
Dasgupa / Ratin Chakraborty |
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Makeup |
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Shakti
Sen |
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Set
Design |
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Ranajit
Chakraborty |
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Light |
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Gopal
Das |
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Direction |
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Meghnad
Bhattacharya |
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First Show |
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23.03.1983
Bijan Theatre |
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Last Show |
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24.01.1986
Shyam Pukur |
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Total Show |
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60 |
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7. |
1985 |
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JNAN BRIKSHER
FOL |
Play |
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Chandan
Sen from Tolstoy |
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Music |
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Dipak
Choudhury |
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Makeup |
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Shakti
Sen |
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Set
Design |
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Ranajit
Chakraborty |
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Light |
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Gopal
Das / Somenath Chattopadhya |
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Direction |
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Meghnad
Bhattacharya |
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First Show |
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02.12.1985
Bijon Theatre |
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Revival |
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02.12.2009
Academy of Fine Arts |
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Total Show |
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212 |
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SYNOPSIS: GNAN
BRIKSHER FOL is a transrelocation and a transposition of
the play's content in terms of its geography, language, culture, and time. He
play is in Santipur, a small town in Bengal. Somewhere during the beginning
of the 20th century It is a black comedy where the 'black' and
'comic' have been fused so beautifully that the audience, as it splits its
sides with laughter also understands the difference between the powerful and
weak, the rich and the poor, the 'intelligent' and the 'fool'. It is a social
satire and a political comment on the two faces of power - the power of the
haves against the powerlessness of the have nots. The lay have several layers. The first layer
is filed with Ahibhusan, the Zamindar and his intellectual coterie sucked
into their world of communication with the dead. The second world is
Ahibhusan's family consisting of his hypochondriac wife, Kolkata obsessed
son, so-called college educated daughter and the third layer comprises the
deprived, the marginalized and oppressed servants, maids farmers, porter etc. The intelligent maid
of Zamindar, Mrittika who has been eavesdropping on the planchette sessions,
tricks Ahibhusan into talking her in he place of the professional medium. She
makes Ahibhusan give away six bighas of land he had promised a year ago to a
group of poor peasants. Ahibhusan's dead father 'appears' again through
Mrittika and insists that his son keep his promise of giving out six bighas
of land to the farmers at a throw away price. By the time Ahibhusan realizes
that he has en tricked, it is too late. |
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8. |
1986 |
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PARUI MASHAIER
BISHOI ASHAI |
Play |
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Subrata Nandi |
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(Short Play) |
Music |
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Ratin Chakraborty |
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Makeup |
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Panchanan Manna |
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Set
Design |
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Dipen Sen |
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Light |
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Gopal
Das |
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Direction |
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Meghnad
Bhattacharya |
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First Show |
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13.09.86
MUKTANGAN |
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Last Show |
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04.12.96
SISIR MANCHA |
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Total Show |
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8 |
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9. |
1987 |
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ASTITWA (Short Play) |
Play |
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Debabrata
Dasgupta |
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Music |
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Ratin
Chakraborty |
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Makeup |
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Panchanan
Manna |
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Set
Design |
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Dipen Sen |
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Light |
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Gopal
Das |
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Direction |
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Meghnad Bhattacharya |
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First Show |
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14.10.1987
Bijan Theatre |
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Last Show |
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24.05.1990
Kalamandir (B) |
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Total Show |
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14 |
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10. |
1988 |
Play |
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Ashok Mukhopadhyay
from Bertolt Brecht |
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JODIO SWAPNA |
Music |
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Murari
Roychoudhuri, Kalyan Choudhuri |
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Makeup |
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Shakti
Sen |
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Set
Design |
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Shyamal Saha |
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Light |
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Tapas
Sen |
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Direction |
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Meghnad
Bhattacharya |
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First Show |
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06.06.1988
Academy of Fine Arts |
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Revival |
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17.09.2003
Academy of Fine Arts |
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Last Show |
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25.04.2004
Madhusudan Mancha |
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Total Show |
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75 |
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11. |
1990 |
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BEOKUF |
Play |
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Chanchal
Bhattacharya |
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Music |
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Murari Roychoudhuri |
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Makeup |
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Shakti Sen |
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Set Design |
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Shyamal Saha |
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Light |
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Kanishka Sen |
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Direction |
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Meghnad
Bhattacharya |
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First Show |
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22.03.1990
Girish Mancha |
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Last Show |
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11.05.1991
Vidyamandir |
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Total Show |
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34 |
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12. |
1991 |
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DAIBADDHA |
Play |
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Chandan
Sen |
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Music |
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Murari
Ray Choudhuri |
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Makeup |
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Shakti
Sen |
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Set
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Dipen Sen |
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Light |
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Gopal
Das |
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Direction |
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Meghnad
Bhattacharya |
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First Show |
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21.05.
91 Academy OF Fine Arts |
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Last Show |
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Total Show |
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666 |
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SYNOPSIS: It was merely tryst with
destiny for Gagan, a lorry driver, when about 18 years ago he came across
Sita, insulted and tormented in her well-established groom's house,
desperatelv trying to commit suicide with her
lap-baby. Gagan hopped down from his vehicle and saved Sita and her little
baby. In course of time, these uneven lives get emotionally locked with each
other. Tender love and affection spring spontaneously in the simple
susceptible heart of Gagan, passionately reciprocated by his growing sensitive
`daughter' Jhinuk. But even then Sita could hardly forget her former ego. And
so the inevitable Nemesis casts it appalling shadow one day. Sita, Gagan and
Jhinuk have to bleed upon the thorns of cruel realities, when Jiban, the
loyal assistant of Gagan, or Debu betrothed to Jhinuk stand taken aback and
feel only the surface of the tragedy. A new emotion of love and trust then
ushers in from that moribund family structure to fill the void. It matters
little whether the age old society is ready to accept the iconoclastic truth.
But an emotional response to meet the challenge of a bolder reaponsibility
gets the better of all obstacles. |
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13. |
1993 |
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BASBHUMI (Dwelling
House) |
Play |
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Indrashis Lahiri |
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Music |
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Dipak Choudhuri |
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Makeup |
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Shakti Sen/Panchanan
Manna |
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Set
Design |
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Pradip Das,Shyamal
saha |
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Light |
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Somnath Chattopadhya |
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Direction |
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Meghnad
Bhattacharya |
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First Show |
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26.08.93
Academy |
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Last Show |
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Total Show |
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312 |
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SYNOPSIS: years ago, she was ostracized from this township and
banished by her parents to her uncle's residence in Mumbai, in order to hush
up a scandal, nay, the ravishing of her woman-hood by notorious gangster. Has she come back for vengeance? Well, that is a
different issue altogether. That she is allowed to put up in one of the rooms
of this palatial house for a day or two, is due to the mercy of her father
who has softened a great deal over the years. But Haimanti is in no need of
mercy or pity anymore. She is bitter. She is strong and She is rich. The six
hellish years in Mumbai have taught her to walk steadily on way of the world.
She has not come here to reconcile with those who have robbed her of the
virginity of her "Soul". It is the questioning Haimanti who shocks
the complacency of those who had taken her for granted. Her questions lay
bare her very root - her one time abode. The rootless woman comes back to her
"Roots". Just this, could have been the subject matter of our play,
but it isn't. The play is concerned with the effort of this individual to
analyse the Root and expose the "worms" that eat it up. How the
domestic sphere and social forces contribute to this process is the subject
matter of our play. It isn't the story of Haimanti alone. It is the story of
woman's plight in man's world. It is the story of Man in a world dominated by
those who, out of sheer habitat. |
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14. |
1996 |
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KARNABATI |
Play |
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Chandan Sen |
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Music |
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khaled Chowdhury |
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Makeup |
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Shakti Sen |
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Set
Design |
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khaled Chowdhury |
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Light |
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Tapas Sen |
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Direction |
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Meghnad
Bhattacharya |
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First Show |
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20.04.96
MADHUSUDAN MANCHA |
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Last Show |
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21.04.2001
Hyderabad |
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Total Show |
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153 |
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15. |
1998 |
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AA-AAA-KWA-KHA |
Play |
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Indrashis Lahiri |
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Music |
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Dipak Choudhuri |
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Makeup |
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Shakti Sen |
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Set
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Pradip Das |
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Light |
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Somnath Chattopadhya |
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Meghnad
Bhattacharya |
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First Show |
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31.12.1998
Mdhusudann Mancha |
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Last Show |
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15.04.2002 Academy of Fine Arts |
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Total Show |
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114 |
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16. |
1999 |
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MARACHAND (Short Play) |
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Direction |
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First Show |
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31.12.1999 Rabindra Sadan |
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Last Show |
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Total Show |
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17. |
2001 |
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ANDHAGALI |
Play |
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Chandan Sen |
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Music |
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Dipak Choudhuri |
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Makeup |
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Shakti Sen |
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Set
Design |
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Pradip Das |
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Light |
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Somenath
Chattopadhyay |
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Direction |
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Meghnad
Bhattacharya |
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First Show |
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17.02.2001
Academy of Fine Arts |
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Last Show |
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16.07.2005
Chandannagar |
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Total Show |
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76 |
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Synopsis: The crisis of our time is inimicably depicted by
Eliot when he spel Is out : "We are the hollow men, we are
the stuffed men". Stuffed' with ambitions and lures for luxury and
comforts man takes resort to ways and means, that ultimately affect close
individuals in particular and society in general. The ageold values give way
to mechanical profit and loss calculations, the natural and normal relations
break down. In the face of odd time Soumyadeb, frantically groping
in the dark once found out a ladder in his wife Ranita to reach the niche of
success and he is now a 'successful' man at the cost of his spouse Ranita,
whom time has metamorphosed into an ambitious ultramodern careerist.
Soumyadeb tasted a defeat in the conjugal separation. The most affected being
is Raju, their little son. Soumyadeb not gets involved with Nilanjana,
Nilanjana plays her role well in the new familial structure of Soumyadeb.
Everyone is satisfied with her, but Nilanjana's past once appears at the
happy doorstep and ultimatelv shatters the cosy comforts of the family.
Ranita plays the catalytic role. The dejected Soumyadeb comes to Nilanjana
with an appeal to start afresh. But Nilanjana discovers the smell of
commercial bargains in this unexpected sumbission of Soumyadeb. Will the two
set out for a new goal shredding off their past wrongs in consideration of
Raju, who needs not a blind lane of marketable comforts but a wide meadow of
sunshine ? |
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18. |
2001 |
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NARI (Short Play) |
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Direction |
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First Show |
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31.12.2001
Rabindra Sadan |
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Last Show |
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31.12.2001
Rabindra Sadan |
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Total Show |
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19. |
2002 |
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BADHUTANTRA |
Play |
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Indrashis Lahiri |
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Music |
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Subhandu Maity |
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Makeup |
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Panchanan
Manna |
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Set
Design |
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Sanchayan Ghosh |
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Light |
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Tapas Sen |
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Direction |
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Meghnad
Bhattacharya |
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First Show |
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24.08.2002
Rabindra Sadan |
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Last Show |
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05.11.2005
New Delhi |
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Total Show |
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123 |
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Synopsis (Based
on a Karnataka Folk Tale) A folk tale, normally, is only one telling, held down in
writing for the nonce till you or someone else reads it, brings it to life
and' changes' it by retelling it. This Kannada tale was handed down to us and
is selecting, arranging and adapting, we're inevitably reworked them
somewhat: So, consider 'us' the latest teller and 'yourself' the latest
listener, who in turn will retell the tale. Like a proverb, a story gains
meaning in context. The clever daughter-in-law in the Kannada folk Tale can
tolerate everything but hunger. God looks after the poor and the hungry. But
in this case, God, nay the goddess does not look after, she stares at the
unfortunate bride while she gobbles her food ravenously. The Goddess not only
stares, she puts one of her hands on her mouth to gesticulate her amazement:
Thus starts an conflict between the mortal and Immortal which ends in the joy
and the glory of the mortal. But it is not the narrative that matters. Folklore pervades
childhoods, families, and communities as the symbolic language of the
nonliterate parts of the people and the culture. Even some years ago, even in
the large modern city like Madras, Bombay or Calcutta [when Bombay was not
Mumbai; Calcutta was not Kolkatta. Even western-style neuclear families with their well-planned 2.2 children,
folklore-proverbs, cullabies, folk medicine, folk tale - was only a suburb
away, a cousin or grandmother away. Wherever people live folklore grows, new jokes, proverbs,
rhymes, tales and songs circulate in the oral tradition. We know the new compus proverb "TO XEROX is to know" Not to counter that not to outwit that, but to add to that we
proclaim, " we listen to our grandmas and grandpas and we know - we know
a lot. It is not just a folk tale that we present--we combine
"earthly wisdom" with an "airy fairy tale". |
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20. |
2004 |
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SANJHBELA |
Play |
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Indrashis Lahiri,
Story – Bimal Kar |
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Music |
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Nilanjan Nandi |
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Makeup |
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Panchanan Manna |
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Set
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Uttam Day |
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Light |
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Somenath
Chattopadhyay |
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Direction |
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Meghnad
Bhattacharya |
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First Show |
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13.09.2004
ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS |
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Last Show |
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Total Show |
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SAANJHBELA: Shrimoyee lives in a hilly
region with her son and her daughter. But does she live with them at all?
They come to structure her time and drive away her loneliness only during
their vacations. Both of them spend the major part of the year in their
respective hostels. The name of their father is a
taboo in Shrimoyee's house. We do not know why this is so, till the end of the play, but we know at
least this, Shrimoyee had walked out on her husband when her son and daughter
were mere kids. She joined the local hospital as a nurse and now she is a
matron of the same hospital. At this juncture enters
Alokesh, a -man from Shrimoyee's past - a past that runs way back to her
early adolescence. He seems to be suffering from amnesia. But when the past
is forgotten, the present becomes unforgettable. The appaling reality to
which Shrimoyee and children wake up after the entry of Alokesh is the
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2005 |
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BENCHE THAKA (Short Play) |
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Music |
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Ratin Chakraborty |
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Panchanan Manna |
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Tridip Chattyapadhya |
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Light |
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Somenath Chattyapadhyay |
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Meghnad Bhattacharya |
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22. |
2006 |
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DILDAR |
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Chandan Sen From Samarset Mongham |
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Music |
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Shubhendu Maity |
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Shakti Sen |
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Sanchayan Ghosh |
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Light |
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Somenath Chattopadhyay |
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Meghnad Bhattacharya |
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Synopsis: Dildar Hussain has an artists’
genre. His grand father Akrarm Ali was a famous sculptor, who thought that
Dildar would definitely be an artist per excellence. By the whims of fate,
Dildar now serves at 'Kundu Shoes Stores' of Deganga under Nilmadhab Kundu.
Dildar with his brilliant paintings and artistry on nagra shoes has become a
lucrative asset of Kundu. Dildar has a queer world of trans reality. While
consuming Bangla liquor at tight in Ids little room of the shop, he
visualizes his dear grandfather Akram and his beloved Banamala. They rebuke
Dildar for doing such common jobs even though he is uncommonly talented. Dildar has a peculiar habit of
Charity. The ill-fated sorrowing people always evoked his sympathy and he has
a strange habit of weeping at the plights and sad of lots of people. One
night at the country liquor shop he met an uncommon girl, professionally a
prostitute, Rinti. Dildar helps Rinti with some money and a lottery ticket
which he had to buy from a lottery ticket agent out of benevolance. Rinti
comes back after a couple of days and handed over the money she has taken
from Dildar and the lottery ticket too which by this time has won Bumper
prize. Dildar wants to give the total money to Rinti but she refuses to
accept it. Money, money and money -Dildar thinks a while and begins to vomit
and has a heart stroke. Kundu sends him back to his own
house at Beldanga. Dildar's wife who was a quiet obedient religious housewife
wants to know why Dildar is feeling sick of everything, Dildar's daughter and
her would be husband want to get hold the amazing wealth of her father. But
Dildar has taken a strong decision of spending the whole money for the needy
and poor. For which he has to fight against many known and unknown people
expressing eagerness to share fortune with him. All these complicacies
reflected on the mental texture of a sensitive artist. Gradually Ducar comes on the
verge of death. He visualizes Rinti after a long gap
actually Rinti appears as Death Dildar feels, Rinti is more than a girl- an
ultimate Philosophy of existence defying
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2007 |
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SWARNACHANPA (Short Play) |
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Meghnad
Bhattacharya , Story – Mani Mukhopadhyay |
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Music |
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Swapan Bandyopadhya |
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Makeup |
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Panchanan
Manna |
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Set
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Pradip Das |
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Light |
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Somenath
Chattopadhyay |
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Meghnad
Bhattacharya |
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2008 |
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DOURNAMA |
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Indrashis Lahiri |
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Music |
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Goutam Ghosh |
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Makeup |
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Panchanan
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Pradip Das |
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Light |
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Ashok Pramanick |
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Meghnad
Bhattacharya |
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Girish Mancha |
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Synopsis It starts with an accident! One of those disastrous bus
accidents in the Metropolis called Kolkata for which you do not know who to
blame; the driver; the corporation; the police; the System! Nonetheless, the
accident occurs and at least one score of passangers including children;
adults and old men and women are killed! The play -begins in ' an accident but it does not stop at .
the accident. The bus accident is merely a metaphor. An intriguing story
follows, the story actually tells us the plight of today where speed and
speed; race and race; competition and commpetition has led us to our doom! The diver escapes. The driver's wife forces him to take
shelter in his ex-teacher's place in a Mufasil town. One of the women
passengers lying in the hospital who thought she had seved and her child by
jumping off the bus learns that her child is dead, she had in her panic saved
another child thinking her to be her very own. The interviewers crowd the
hospital, the investigating officer comes to know the scenario. Eventually,
the patient who has lost her child wants the driver alive and a sharp
knife!!! The driver is eventually arrested from his mentor's house who is now
counting his days. As the driver comes out of the court and as the patient who
has lost her daughter meet each other, they recognize each other to their
utter suprise! They are separated lovers due to circumstance! The child who
has died in the accident is allegebly the driver's very own. The driver,
while severing the relationship with this lady, did not even know that a
child was growing up in her womb. But now he knows that he has killed his own
child because of his love far SPEED! What follows after this is a story of
sin and forgiveness; guilt and retribution; love and hate; complaint and
forgiveness; Life and Death that involves the driver, his wife, his ex-girl
friend; his mentor, the mentor's wife the investigating officer and "The
cogs in the wheel" - The System! |
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2010 |
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MUKTI ! MUKTI ! |
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Sen , Based on R.N.Tagore’s “Muktir Upay” |
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Murari
Ray Choudhuri |
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Makeup |
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Panchanan
Manna |
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Pradip
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Light |
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Somenath
Chattopadhyay |
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Meghnad
Bhattacharya |
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EZCC, Salt lake |
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Synopsis:: (Based on Rabindranath Tagore’s
Short Play Muktir Upay) It is a saga of two families.
Fakirchand and Makhanlal, the two protagonists, have a common trait; both of
them are irresponsible of their families. But Fakirchand is a pseudo-pandit
and obstinately puritanin his family life, while his young wife Haimabati
epitomizes youthful vivacity, humor and love for romantic fictions of Bankim
Chandra. This leads to obvious clashes, the pleas of which Fakirchand leaves
away his family and goes to a Baba or Saint who ultimately makes him his
trustee transforming him to a Sannyashi (Monk). Makhanlal is psychologically
opposite. He is philanderer though he has two wives and seven children. He
too is irresponsible and worthless. On the pleas of the criticism of his old
father and his quarrelsome wives, Makhanlal also leave away his family and
comes to Brindaban and marries again. Both Fakirchand and Makhanlal
meet in the end in Makhanlal’s old house at Nabagram after some funny
episodes of misunderstanding and false identity. The two families reunite. |
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2011 |
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PINKI BULI |
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Iindrasis Lahiri , Story - Amar Mitra |
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Music |
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Swatilekha Sengupta |
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Makeup |
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Panchanan Manna |
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Soumik-Piyali |
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Light |
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Somenath Chattopadhyay |
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Direction |
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Meghnad Bhattacharya |
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22.09.2011 Academy of Fine Arts |
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Synopsis : Pinki
is an urban adolescent studying in a convent school living in a nuclear
family with her parents and her baby
brother. Buli is an adolescent who comes from the outskirts of the city to baby-sit Pinki’s brother. Buli is just what Pinki is not,
she is illiterate, under-privileged and deprived. But , much to Pinki’s
astonishment , Buli has a rich storehouse of imagination and folk lore which
she has imbibed from her village. With this she can disarm the so-called
conventional academics of Pinki. Pinki gets jealous of her with each passing
day and Buli, with her tremendous zeal for learning, learns and apes the
modes, manner and even the very lingo of Pinki. There is confusion in the
house, there is tension and the complacent life of the family is shaken up.
The parents, whose relationship was already in a mess before the arrival of Buli, go through even more biter phases.
Nonetheless, Pinki vicariously travels to a world delightfully that she had
never known before in spite of envying this girl of her age who comes from a
very mean background. Finally, Buli leaves the house and we do not know what
becomes of her, but Pinki grows up to be a author of eminence who narrates the
story of her experience with Buli in her celebrated book “PINKI - BULI”. An
obscure old man plays a vital role in Pinki- Buli’s life who believes more in
nature than Nurture when Nurturing
destroys, we have to go back to
Nature, is his Philosophy, So, is the philosophy of the Play. |
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Cast: Organizer : Sukharanjan Bhattacharya Ujjala : Sujata Gupta Buli : Bhaswati Chakraborty Pinki : Rimi Saha Pinki’s
Mother : Runa
Mukherjee Piniki’s
Father : Dhurjati De Atul : Uttam Dey Miss
Regenja : Indrajita Chakraborty Old
Man : Meghnad Bhattacharya Others : Parimal
chakraborty, Ajoy
Bandopadhyay, Jayanta
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27. |
2012 |
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DHRUBATARA |
Play |
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Ujjwal
Chattopadhyay |
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Music |
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Murari
Roychowdhury |
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Makeup |
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Panchanan
Manna |
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Set
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Saumik -
Piyali |
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Light |
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Joy sen |
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Direction |
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Meghnad Bhattacharya |
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First Show |
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02.12.2012
ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS 3PM |
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Concept of the Play: Family norms and personal
emotions do not always follow the same course. In most of the cases they
maintain a conflicting relation which often leads to a severe damage in
domestic life and relation. Ritwik Sen , an environmental scientist of
high repute and status and the central character of the play is heavily
challenged in his professional life in the issue of conservation of the
environment in the true sense. On the other hand he has been suppressing a
very personal and delicate episode of his life from his family for a long
period of time. Ever mounting pressure from all corners breaks on him. His
mental stability comes under stiff criticism. Shri.Sen slowly withdraws
himself from all material happenings and gradually becomes silent. Finally
truth unveils. ---- Ritwik Sen stands face to face with it because truth is
ultimate and absolute. |
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