Nandikar’s new productions showcased at their National Festival find their directorial mantle resting on Sohini Sengupta’s capable shoulders, with a social consciousness spanning the history of female emancipation and sensitivity
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Bengali plays by writers active two or three decades ago are seeing revivals now. Dipendra Sengupta, perhaps best known for Gābbu Khelā, composed Bijaner Chār Deoyāl in 1984 as an
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Happenings’ unique international Rabindra Utsav once again united south Asian nations on a Tagorean platform. Spectators who fashionably prefer Western celebrities missed out on the marvellous dance-drama Riddhi from the
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Two of Mumbai’s long-running English productions visited Birla Sabhagar recently. The revue Stories in a Song, by Arpana and Underscore Records, not only boasted an original concept of playlets contextualizing
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Girish Karnad’s best-known political dramas prove their continuing relevance in faithful Bengali productions. Does mankind learn anything from historical precedents? Of course not. But that should not deter groups from
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Covid took away another pillar of Kolkata’s Hindi theatre before his time. Viewers since the late 1980s have fond memories of Mahmud Alam’s jovial onstage and offstage personae, mostly with
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Azhar had just turned 50 when Covid cut short his life cruelly. He had just begun to make his presence felt nationally, and his artistry had reached the high points
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