AARSHI

Play : Tirthankar Chanda

Direction : Prokash Bhattacharya 

The irony of our so called civilized society across the centuries is that women are being deprived of their rights in all aspects of life. Unlike men, they have to struggle for their existence. In order to sustain in the world of inequity, they compelled to take some radical decisions which may apparently sound self-centred, but later proved inevitable for their survival. The glories of Bengali Theatre like Binodini Dasi, Probhabati Devi and a famous actress of 60’s of last century had no exception in this regard. The sufferings in their individual social lives perhaps have a common feeling of severe disrespect of womanhood which they had to experience in their respective eras. Haunted by this thought, a woman playwright of today develops a play. She attempts to look back, beyond time, on how the hostile nature of the society affected the personal lives of these prodigy actresses. She protested against the male aggression's which are still widely prevailing. She swims against the tide with the characters of her play. The play revolves with the truth of legacy of such dispossession of womanhood vis-a-vis counter revolution which reflects in the mirror (AARSHI) of our society.

CAST :

ARUNIMA : Sanjita Mukherjee

DIPAYAN : Sandip Suman Bhattacharya

ANUPAMA : Sarbani Bhattacharya

DEBABRATA : Saumitra Poddar

BIBHASH : Bappa Bangal/ sayan Debnath

STEWARD : Sanjib Chowdhury

YOUNG MAN : Arka Banerjee

GANGA : Srimoyee Mitra/Mandira Banerjee

NATI BINODINI : Monalisa Chattopadhyay

PRABHA DEVI : Sulakshana Saha

MR. BHADURI : Biplab Naha Biswas

SHIBENDRA : Ishanjit De

SADANANDA : Silajit Naskar

RADHA : Poulami Banerjee/Shikha Sarkar 

CREDITS :   

Set design : Sandip Suman Bhattacharya

Light design : Triguna Shankar

Music : Swapan Bandyopadhyay

Make-up : Md. Ali

Costume : Shikha Sarkar & Poulami Banerjee

Sound operation : Himangshu Pal

Production assistance : Anjan Roy Chowdhury  

Acknowledgement : Manoj Prasad, Santanu Saha 

First show : 23 July, 2017, Minerva Theatre, 6.30 pm.

Duration of the play : 2 hrs.(with an interval of 10 Mins.)