Beadon Street Subham’s Masterda: The Exdetenues, at Girish

Director Anamitra Khan’s new Bengali production begins with a simple question: what happens when history becomes legend? Under the supervision of dramaturge Kallol Lahiri, the Chittagong revolutionary movement unfolds alongside “Masterda” Surya Sen. The story begins in 1923 and travels to 1934, but then moves to 1947, 1974, 1996—across decades of memory, independence, disillusionment and remembrance through the lens of alternative history, allowing imagination to enter the spaces between fact and memory.