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DUHSAMAY

Leave a Comment / 1993 / Ananda Lal

The controversial play by Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, Duhsamay, long a work (or should one say production) in progress, has finally reached its approved incarnation. Now clocking in at one and a […]

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JAMILA BAI KALALI | SHATRANJ KE MOHRE | GADHAGAN

Leave a Comment / 1993 / Ananda Lal

The internationally famous Peruvian novelist, Mario Vargas Llosa, became interested in writing drama only during the last decade, and Ila Arun’s Hindi adaptation of his La Chunga, titled Jamila Bai

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DON’T DRINK THE WATER

Leave a Comment / 1993, Archives / Ananda Lal

Somehow Woody Allen’s wacky cold-war comedy, Don’t Drink the Water, doesn’t fetch as many laughs now that the Iron Curtain has been raised for good. Prime Time Foundation (Delhi) appears

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RANI KADAMBINI | MRITYUNJAY

Leave a Comment / 2018 / Ananda Lal

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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BIJANER CHAR DEOYAL | MANASCHAURYAM | JALJYANTA

Leave a Comment / 2018 / Ananda Lal

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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RIDDHI | MAWLANA JALALUDDIN MOHAMMAD BALKHI | DAKGHAR | SARADOTSAV | VALMIKI PRATIBHA

Leave a Comment / 2018 / Ananda Lal

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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STORIES IN A SONG | THE GLASS MENAGERIE

Leave a Comment / 2018 / Ananda Lal

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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RAKTAKALYAN | TUGHLAQ

Leave a Comment / 2018 / Ananda Lal

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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MAHMUD ALAM (1963-2021)

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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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S M AZHAR ALAM (1971-2021)

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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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MA LAKSHMI PUTULNACH PARTY | BUDHI KAKI | NASTIK SHAHID BHAGAT SINGH

2021, Archives / Ananda Lal

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

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Little Thespian’s JASHN-E-RANG Festival

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Little Thespian’s Jashn-E-Rang, a national Hindi and Urdu theatre festival, celebrates its 10th edition this year. It has become one of the most looked-out-for theatre events in Kolkata. Despite the

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