Festival to promote theatre in Bengal
The Bengal Theatre Rejuvenation Festival was inaugurated on 4 November with the intention of promoting Bengali theatre.
The Bengal Theatre Rejuvenation Festival was inaugurated on 4 November with the intention of promoting Bengali theatre.
Ek Peyala Coffee, a crime thriller by playwright and actor Tarun Roy, under the pseudonym, Dhanjay Bairagi, was a popular theatre play on Bengali stages more than three decades ago.
In an out-of-the-ordinary move, a theatre group’s cast and crew paid their respects to Tilottama, the rape-murder victim doctor from R G Kar hospital.
Months before the Kolkata International Film Festival (KIFF), the Forum for Film Studies and Allied Arts took part in renewing the Marathi and Bengali theatre streams with a Marathi theatre film session from 27 to 28 August, at Nandan in Kolkata.
Kolkata witnessed the play “Shuno Punnyoban” at Usha Ganguly Mancha, Rangakarmee, on 25 August this year that aptly showcased how the epic of the Mahabharata is still relevant today in the modern world as it suffers from its own sets of trials and tribulations, trying to find the answers towards ending the suffering.
In the theatre arena of Girish Manch, organised by Baguiati Sahajiya Natyasanstha and written and directed by Prasanta Sen, the play Naraseehagatha was seen and applauded by the audience.
Tapati Gupta's recent book, Analysing Bengali Drama: Time, Text & Performance (Dasgupta and Company), looks into some landmark aspects of Bengali theatre with regard to text and performances.
The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) will instal a statue of Nati Binodini, the most popular actor of Bengali stage, soon.
The film will be an adaptation of the Sherlock Holmes story; The Hound of the Baskervilles. Padmanava Dasgupta is penning down the screenplay and dialogue, whereas the story is being adapted by Sanjib Banerji.
The prolific actor turned director is now all set to woo the audience with his debut feature film Ballabhpurer Roopkotha that blends the genres of horror and comedy by pulling inspiration from the play of thespian Badal Sarkar.
