The competition shall be a collage of performs, says the competition director, Sayandeb Bhattacharya
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4 performs shall be staged on July 20 as a part of SmaranniK Theatre Competition 2024. “The performs shall be introduced as Present 1 and Present 2 with breaks in between,” says the competition director, Sayandeb Bhattacharya, who can also be the founding father of the theatre group.
SmaranniK, which Sayandeb says, means one thing price remembering, was established in 2012 as a Bengali theatre group in Bengaluru. “SmaranniK Theatre Competition commenced in 2013 and that is our eleventh version. The competition and group isn’t just my brainchild, however all of us, as theatre is at all times a gaggle exercise.”
SmaraniK has, over the previous decade, produced six performs, organized 10 theatre festivals, 10 theatre workshops, 4 theatre lectures. There have been 11 core members when the group was based, Sayandeb says. “Solely six are nonetheless at present energetic because the others moved out of Bengaluru. The competition, is organised yearly to current the a few of the greatest Bengali performs in Bengaluru.”
The theatre competition, Sayandeb says, can also be a approach to rejoice the group’s anniversary, which is ultimately of June. “It isn’t at all times potential to organise a competition on the precise date. We intention to rejoice the competition between July and August. The main target is to advertise the attitude that theatre has a no language barrier. We watch performs in each language and I consider theatre is a common language.”
The opposite intention of organising the Theatre Competition, Sayandeb says, is to convey performs which can be directed by veteran theatre administrators and actors. “With SmaranniK, they will watch Bengali performs in Bengaluru.”
The one-day competition, Sayandeb says, goals to work as a cultural platform. “There shall be quite a lot of meals stalls, books and music. There shall be Bengali books and delicacies as effectively cuisines, books and music from different areas.”
Sayandeb took to theatre as a toddler aged 5 in Kolkata and has labored with veterans together with Bibhas Chakraborty and his father, Meghnad Bhattacharya. “I moved to Bengaluru in 2005 and took a break as I needed to deal with research. Then I picked up theatre once more in 2007,” says the 42-year-old theatre practitioner, who at present lives in Mahadevpura.
Present 1 will begin with Sayam-Er-Aalo, SmaranniK’s new play, directed by Sayandeb and staged at 3pm. The second play, Andhakarer Utso Hote, is written and directed by Sangeet Natak Akademi Awardee, Bibhas Chakraborty, and options theatre doyens resembling Meghnad Bhattacharya and Sima Mukherjee. “The play embraces the sunshine of hope from the supply of darkness in a middle-class, Bengali household.”
Sayandeb Bhattacharya
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Bandher Dosh Din (5.30pm) adopted by Tomar Ami shall be staged as a part of Present 2. “Bandher… will function the veteran movie and theatre actor, Rajatava Dutta, and the play revolves across the lifetime of Subhabrata, whose life adjustments drastically when he strikes to a small, two-roomed flat in Behala, along with his spouse and daughter. How they deal with unforseen circumstances and what they be taught is kinds the crux of the play.”
Tomar, Sayandeb says, is carried out by Sangeet Natak Academy Award profitable actor, Debsankar Halder. “It’s a Bengali adaptation of Evald Flaser’s Take me in your Fingers. The play takes us to the world of books in Kolkata’s School Road and portrays an uncommon love story between Ajit, an older well-educated man and a classy bookshop proprietor and Maya, a youthful gross sales woman who lives in a slum however is hungry for data”.
SmaranniK Theatre Competition 2024 shall be held on July 20 at MLR Conference Centre, JP Nagar (close to Brigade Millenium) from 3pm. Tickets can be found on BookMyShow or name 9741408132.
