BHROM

BHROM

The elderly people of our present-day world must suffer the doom of a companionless existence. But the grey overtone of their withered days are sometimes relieved by a patch of green, a shower of the spring-when they defy their age and look forward to discover their own self through others. Something change is wrought in the lives of three elderly gentlemen-a retired senior police officer, a doctor, and a superannuated professor who indulges in painting. It is Rohini, a middle-aged beauty, to whom they owe this magic transformation.

But the axe of fatality has little reverence for the old age, and it strikes professor Srikumar who gets killed at the hand of his own servant. Rohini by this time had formed a special bond with professor, and his death leaves her in a state of a perpetual anxiety of getting killed in the hand of her own maid. Similar events in the headlines confirm her fear of a hidden knife lurking in the dark.

A gnawing insecurity of being left alone drives Rohini to take recourse to from one illusion to another. ‘I must kill before I become a prey to the killer’, she thinks. She the spectra of the dead professor everywhere.

Taranga, Rohini’s maid, suddenly disappears from the scene. The other elderly friends of the professor immediately set themselves to find a clue-one with a seasoned eye of a veteran investigator, and another with his practice of psycho-analysis. They delve into the facts, analyse them, and corroborate them with the testimony of Rohini. What really happened to Taranga? Is she killed too? Who killed her, and what is the ‘motive’?

Question, illusions, interpretations and misinterpretations spins round the mystery of disappearance and murder. As the suspense grows, an existential crisis of our ordinary everyday life slowly emerges from the dark.

Play – Ujjwal Chattopadhyay

Set Design – Sandip Suman Bhattacharya

Light Design – Badal Das

Music – Swapan Bandopadhyay

Make up – Alok Debnath

Sound Operation – Himangsu Pal & Bikash Kali Ghosh

Light Operation – Triguna Shankar & Dipak Dev

Set Making – Madan-Tinku

Requisition – Biplab Naha Biswas

Production Controller – Pintu Das

Production Assistance – Anjan Roychowdhury,

Ashis Das, Bappa Bangal, Mandira Banerjee.

Direction – Prokash Bhattacharya

On Stage :

Prasad – Sanjib Chowdhury

Bidhubhusan – Saumitra Poddar

Srikumar – Bimal Chakraborty
Rohini – Piyali Basu

Taranga – Sarbani Saha

Pabitra – Netai Hembram / Triguna Shankar

Ratan – Pintu Das

Manada – Mandira Banerjee / Sarbani Bhattacharya

Bouquet Carrier – Ashis Das / Avinandan Roy

Duration of the Play – 2 hrs. 10 mins.  (including an Interval of 10 mins.)

First Show : 31st March 2012, Gyan Mancha, 6.30 PM

Last Show : 25th February 2014, Academy Of Fine Arts, 6.30 PM