Dramatized from Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay by Kuntal Mukhopadhyay and directed by Debasish. A mysterious hawker sells seemingly useless things, but fruitful in the thirst for knowledge, which some people conspire to capture. Recommended: ★★★★
Partap Sehgal's play celebrates the life and achievements of Srinivasa Ramanujan, from a poor and modest clerk in Madras to a renowned mathematician at Cambridge, exploring the challenges he faced due to poor health, cultural differences and lack of formal education. Directed by Himanshu Himaniya. Part of Little Thespian's Jashn-e-Azhar national theatre festival.
Partap Sehgal's play about Bulleh Shah, descendant of Prophet Mohammad and belonging to the upper Pathan caste, whose family members opposed him becoming a disciple of the Sufi seer Shah Inayat, considered a lower caste, and did not even like him dancing and singing from street to street. Directed by Arvind Singh. Part of Little […]
Dramatized from Samares Mazumdar’s novel, the third in his Animesh quartet, focusing on the journey of Animesh’s son. Scripted and directed by Sitangshu Khatua.
Partap Sehgal's play is a narrative of Bhagat Singh's life, whose revolutionary actions are repeatedly highlighted, but his socialist ideology relegated to the background. He emerges as a radical in actions and also in his thinking. Directed by Kewal Dhaliwal. Concluding production of Little Thespian's Jashn-e-Azhar national theatre festival.
Ujjwal Chattopadhyay’s play inspired by a foreign film about the personal conflict between a retired judge and his son who defends criminals. Directed by Meghnad Bhattacharya.
Ibsen’s trailblazing Doll’s House adapted by Ratan Kumar Das and directed by Biplab Bandyopadhyay. Recommended: ★★★★ Read my review.
Ujjwal Chattopadhyay’s play about the triangle between Tappa pioneer Nidhu-babu, his royal patron-friend Mahananda Ray, and the latter’s mistress Srimati who became Nidhu-babu’s devoted disciple. Directed by Soumitra Mitra.
A very rare opportunity to see the solo genre of the ancient Sanskrit form of Kutiyattam from Kerala, performed by one of its finest younger exponents, Kapila Venu, using a 6th-century Tamil text. A must-watch.
Sudrak’s new, so-called “uneducated” satire on education written and directed by Debasis Majumdar. Read my review.
