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A blind and wheelchair-bound youth, highly intelligent, wants to know about light from his physicist father. Written and directed by Suman Sengupta. Recommended: ★★★★
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Biographical drama on Nati Binodini co-written by Abanti Chakraborty and Sibashis Bandyopadhyay, and directed by Abanti Chakraborty. |
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Pratikriti’s Padma Nadir Majhi, Manik Bandyopadhyay’s classic novel dramatized and directed by Alok Deb. Highly recommended: ★★★★★
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Revival of Renaissance’s Hindi production from the 1990s. Dramatized from Satinath Bhaduri’s satirical story by Partha Sarathi Upadhyay and directed by Bimal Chakraborty.
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Written and directed by Debashis. Based on the freedom fighters arrested in the Alipore Bomb Case of 1908. Recommended: ★★★★. Read my review. |
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The highly popular 1932 play written by Rabindranath Maitra, directed by Sima Mukhopadhyay. Recommended: ★★★★ Read my review here.
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Dramatist-director Sohan Bandopadhyay’s ghostly comedy set in a dilapidated north Kolkata hall about to be demolished to make way for a mall. Resident spooks protest against the reigning politician’s corruption. Recommended: ★★★★. Read my review.
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Dramatist-director Ranjan Roy's play presents a Kolkata novelist returning to her ancestral district mansion which her brother has decided to convert into a modern building. Flashbacks give us the complicated history. |
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Shakespeare’s classic directed by Koushik Sen in a Bengali translation by Chaiti Mitra. Recommended: ★★★★ Read my review here. |
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Adapted from Slovenian dramatist Evald Flisar’s What about Leonardo, set in a neurological institute, and directed by Amitava Dutta. |
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From Howard Fast’s novel Silas Timberman, dramatized and directed by Kaushik Chattopadhyay. Highly recommended: ★★★★★. Read my review. |
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Premiere of Ratan Kumar Das's new play about an older man whose only roots are his memories, his daughter and his house, as everything changes all around. Directed by Biplab Bandopadhyay.
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Dramatized from Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay’s novel by Kuntal Mukhopadhyay and directed by Debasish. A mysterious hawker sells seemingly useless things, but fruitful in the fearless thirst for knowledge. Some people conspire to capture this power of science.
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Adapted from Ariel Dorfman’s internationally successful Death and the Maiden and directed by Kishore Sengupta. |
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Based on Debes Roy’s Bengali rendering of Shakespeare’s classic and Jan Otcenasek’s Romeo and Juliet in Darkness. Directed by Abanti Chakraborty. Recommended: ★★★★ |
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Adapted by Soumitra Chatterjee from Murray Schisgal’s The Typists, and directed by Poulomi Chatterjee. Two stenographers in an office become friends over time and grow old together. |
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Written and directed by Malay Ray, inspired by Mallika Sengupta’s novel on Sita’s story rather than Rama’s. Recommended: ★★★★. Read my review. |
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The Dario Fo–Franca Rame political satire Can’t Pay, Won’t Pay (1974) adapted into Bengali by Bismoy Roy and directed by Bimal Chakraborty. |
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A "non-sense" production with child and adult actors, written and directed by Sujan Mukhopadhyay. Alibaba, accompanied by his trusty donkey, opens the door to the cave and discovers no treasure but ancient, worthless artifacts and a rusted lamp from which emerges the Genie. Meanwhile, the band of thieves finds themselves devoid of any occupation in […] |
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Sudrak’s new, so-called “uneducated” satire on education written and directed by Debasis Majumdar. |
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Utpal Dutt’s classic play, directed by Suman Mukhopadhyay. Recommended: ★★★★ Matinee at 2:30 and evening at 6:30.
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Indianized by Jagannath Guha from Giuseppe Tornatore’s influential film A Pure Formality, about an inspector interrogating a famous author. Directed by Anish Ghosh.
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Utpal Dutt’s play about Ram Mohun Roy’s anti-sati activism, revived and directed by Ashok Mukhopadhyay. |
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Dramatized from Parashuram’s Mahesher Mahajatra about two friends searching for ghosts, by Kallol Lahiri and members of the repertory, and directed by Anamitra Khan. |
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A blind and wheelchair-bound youth, highly intelligent, wants to know about light from his physicist father. Written and directed by Suman Sengupta. Recommended: ★★★★ Read my review.
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Dramatized from Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay’s novel by Kuntal Mukhopadhyay and directed by Debasish. A mysterious hawker sells seemingly useless things, but fruitful in the fearless thirst for knowledge. Some people conspire to capture this power of science. |
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Adapted from Neil Simon's The Sunshine Boys about two old comedians, by Farrukh Seyer and Avinash Gautam, and directed by Sumeet Vyas. Part of KCC's Ami Arts Festival.
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The son of a Ramlila performer in Ayodhya moves to Mumbai to join the film industry but things don’t go as he wanted. Written and directed by Debasish. Highly recommended: ★★★★★. Read my review. |
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The hilarious and touching story of a notorious gang leader and local legend in Patna, told through the innocent eyes of a young boy. Written and directed by Nihal Parashar. Part of KCC's Ami Arts Festival. |
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Danish Husain narrates the Dastangoi of the thrilling escapades of Amar Aiyyar, who finds himself entangled in the treacherous court of Emperor Afrasiyab. With humour, aiyyari (trickery) and adventure, Amar devises clever schemes to retrieve a stolen magical tablet. Part of KCC's Ami Arts Festival.
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Ronald Harwood's play set in post-World War II Germany, about the de-Nazifying investigation of the world-famous music conductor Wilhelm Furtwangler. Directed by Atul Kumar. Part of KCC's Ami Arts Festival.
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A story about the son of the god of the sun, told by a British troupe. Presented by QTP, Mumbai. |
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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.
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Directed and designed by Suman Mukhopadhyay from fragments of plays by Bertolt Brecht, reflecting the essence of Brecht’s life, ideas and philosophy. |