Director: Debasish Chakraborty
Playwright: Anil Saha
Group: Tala Dhrupad Natya Sanstha, Hooghly
Language: Bengali
Duration: 2 hr 10 mins

The Play

Arshinagar speaks about love and true emotions. In this era, where love has been commoditized, this story talks about the real definition of love and the magic it can create. Chaya Kumar, son of a rich merchant has to leave his wife on the next day of his marriage for business expansion.The newly wedded bride, Lilabati, lives with her in-laws, but feels a vacuum. But the power of love brings joy in Lilabati’s life and helps her overcome the void.

Director’s Note

Presented in a folk form, the flight of imagination in the play soars without any bondage of religion, cast or culture. To express the language of love and fathom its power, music is a vital character in this play. Various folk songs in the traditions of Jhumur, Bhadu, Tusu, Sari, Jari and Sufi are wonderfully tuned in the atmosphere through which the story runs smoothly. Various workshops and endless brainstorming sessions on choreography, costumes, light, set and editing resulted in this brilliant play.

 

The Director

Debasish Chakraborty, a theatre student of Sri Bivas Chakraborty since 1998, is a promising director of this generation. He joined Annya, a theatre group, under the direction of Sri Bivas Chakraborty and acted in numerous plays. He started his own theatre group Dhrupad in 2002 at Serampore. He has acted in many tele-serials. He has also acted in the feature film One, directed by Birsa Dasgupta, and performs in other theatre groups of Kolkata as well.

 

The Playwright

Anil Saha was born in Bagbazar, Kolkata. He is a retired employee of State Bank of India. He joined a theatre workshop and is now a full-time theatre worker. He has acted in many plays and has been writing plays for 30 years.

 

The Group

Tala Dhrupad Natya Sanstha started its theatre journey in 2002. The group has produced Simantika written by the eminent dramatist Chandan Sen, Hastabud dramatized by Pradip Moulik and based on the story of Sahajad Firdous, The Numbers based on Nikolai Gogol’s story, Ranger Haat by Manoj Mitra, Bodli by Anil Saha, Bhan by Amiya Chattaraj, Uro Megh by Mohit Chattopadhyay, Punajjanma by Dwijendralal Roy and many more.

Cast & Credits

Chaya Kumar              Dhrubo Adhikari

Lilabati                         Shreya Biswas

DebokiNandan            Arup Manna

Surobhi Devi               Mita Roy

Sarkar Mosai                Jayanta Chattopadhyay

Bhnaru                         Biswanath Saha

Kanai                           Parikshit Chattopadhyay

Maya Kumar                Jayanta Chakraborty

Raja & Sutrodhar         Debasish Chakraborty

Paharadar                     Gautam Bikash Chandra

Panchir Maa                 Mausumi Goswami/Sanchita Singha Roy

Sokhi Dol                    Poulobi Sarkar Gupta, Moumita Chakraborty Basu,

Priyanka Dey, Sukla Pal, Sanchari Singha Roy

Grambasi                     Abhijit Chatterjee, Tanay Banerjee, Wasim Ali,

Suman Chakraborty, Utsab Chattopadhyay,

Iman Das, Jayanta Dhar

Baul                             Sourabh Dutta

Backstage                    Suman Mukhopadhyay, Subhankar Mukherjee, Tapan Mallick

Lyrics & Music                        Bhaskar Choudhury

Choreography              Abhijit Mahato

Light                            Debabrata Sarkar

Set                               Moni Shankar

Make-up                      Pratap Roy

Title                             Utpal Ghosh

Harmonium                 Subir Sanyal

Rhythm                                    Tanmoy Sashmal

Sound Control             Bivas Gupta

Photograph                  Sumanta Bora

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