Among the Bengali productions brought to a standstill by Covid are two entertaining comedies by leading purveyors of the genre. Both deal with the impact of new technology on married life. Durgadas Smrity Sangha’s Biswās Kari Nā features the comic duo of Kamal Chattopadhyay (also the director) and Nandini Bhowmik
The rising intolerance toward religious minorities in India has become a matter of grave concern not just within the country but also internationally. In the Christmas season, we must appreciate two recent Bengali productions against that background. Both have Christian protagonists who do good for their local rural residents. I
As the auditoriums gradually reopened this year, Bengali groups began to revive their productions that had remained suspended since March 2020. Garia Krishti’s Kālpurush presents the eponymous third novel of Samares Mazumdar’s acclaimed political tetralogy. In it, he showed the Left Front’s decline into corruption and intimidation during the 1980s,
I write this on World Theatre Day, at the end of Little Thespian’s Jashn-e-Rang festival. After exactly a year of pandemic closures I entered an auditorium again—despite warnings—only so as to show support to their intrepid initiative of holding their delayed tenth edition of the national theatre event. Although some
