A so-called “uneducated” satire on education written and directed by Debasis Majumdar. Read my review.

Harold Pinter’s early drama translated and transplanted into Bengali and directed by Arindam Mukherjee. Recommended: ★★★★. Read my review.

Four childhood friends from the 1990s grow up and go different ways, passing through youthful romances, heated arguments and political movements, testifying to the times and documented by contemporanous hit songs and TV clips. Dramatized from Rahul Arunodoy Banerjee’s story and directed by Saurav Palodhi. Recommended: ★★★★

Dramatist-director Debasish’s biodrama about Panchanan Karmakar, the first creator of Bengali moveable typeface in the 18th century, based on Rajat Chakraborti’s novel Panchananer Haraph. Recommended: ★★★★. Read my review.

Written and directed by Debasish. An imaginative account of the conflict between Nadir Shah and Muhammad Shah. Highly recommended: ★★★★★ Read my review.

One of the more unusual treatments of Nati Binodini’s llife: a play within a play on her last years and her friendship with Tara Sundari, promising revelations that have not come to light previously, and including many old songs. Written by Surajit Bandyopadhyay and directed by Anindita Bandyopadhyay. Recommended: ★★★★.

A multimedia theatre performance that reflects on the lives of contemporary female impersonators in Sitala Jatra or Sitala Mangal, a rich and diverse but now endangered performatory ritual mostly found in rural West Bengal. Sitala (from sital, meaning cool; literally, the cool one), a non-Aryan deity, is the much-dreaded goddess or mother of diseases in […]

Chekhov’s classic Uncle Vanya adapted to an old, decaying estate in rural Bengal and directed by Somudranil Sarkar.

Adapted from Beckett's classic Waiting for Godot and directed by Ashok Mukhopadhyay.

The poet Shakti Chattopadhyay’s life, thought and times dramatized by Ujjwal Chattopadhyay and directed by Debasish.