years back kolkata winter spare time utilized watching theater people kolkata flocking multiplexes idiots avatar thought prudent capture bengali plays won't back jersey landed kolkata happened opening ceremony nandikar's national theater festival satya-da satya bhaduri editor theater magazine invited attend show evening festival opened bangladesh dhaka drama's staging selim-al-din's dhabaman dhabaman allegorical folk tale young buffalo wanted free play presented traditional folk form elaborate choreography physical acting kind play depend traditional dialogues descriptive narratives works commentary happenings stage pleasant experience watch play form rarely bengali theater days play aneek theater festival natya anan's musical hirak rajar deshe based popular film satyajit play directed good friend chandan attended rabindra sadan full enjoyed young viewers musicals neglected genre bengali theater glad chandan team showed courage stage remaking classic challenge natya-anan face uphill task stand wonderful film lingers memories bengali film goer current political situation bengal makes content quite relevant music quite good preferred songs performed live stage loud pre-recorded playback actors decent choreography imaginative play special effects lights sound looked nice compare broadway production recommend play kids festival play bohurupi's birja sulka play based story shikandi mahabharata shikhandi's tale fascinated frankly speaking play disappointed structure play flawed failed capture attention audience director tulika motivated spirit woman's liberation failed deliver actors problems dialogs verse poor structure play added despair expected quality group bohurupi play season theater workshop's latest production juddha paristhiti juddha paristhiti adapted nabarun bhattacharya's veteran thespian ashok mukhopadhyay directed play play middle aged institutionalized schizophrenic lost mind police brutality political turmoil seventies escapes asylum roams streets kolkata searching hidden arms instruments liberation play demonstrated crafted play audience glued seats imaginative director transform stage simple structures actors excellent presenting play excessive fourth wall minimized true plays playing international curtain call dramatic overimposed time happened production play jadiyo galpo theater workshop directed ashok mukhopadhyay staged historic minerva theater personal attachment play refrain details audience play actors stage ashok mukhopadhyay krishnagati chatterjee hold attention intermission break bohurupi production happened chance kakatua pleasantly surprised play draw crowds play directed kumar comedy entertains makes unlike brija shulka play firmly solid structure actors enliven stage brilliant direction veteran kumar play happened watch bratyajan's ruddha sangeet celebrated sensational play written directed bratya basu call show organized bank mahajati sadan news chances showed theater back stage good friend bratya kind arrange seat show invited guests play kind biopic life popular singer debabrata george biswas loosely based memoirs bratyajaner ruddhasangeet play instant kolkata time city intellectuals artists writers actors alienating ruling left party joining ranks opposition play talks similar time history communist party bengal stifle voice free spirited artists performers play brings stage popular famous bengali personalities century dramatic moments dramatic moments make drama play anecdotal nature lacked plot line intentional fails audience interest quite evident heard people restless leaving auditorium early lack clear story line definitive action part protagonist george biswas fights songs makes docu-drama play director bratya commendable managing huge cast choreographed manner stage stage sparse alright imagination helped make pleasing visually debshankar haldar george biswas excellent satrajit role ritwick ghatak kind created wide quality characterization actors impression rumors hear kolkata theater thriving people theaters plays produced quality production branches room improvement happen theater goers demand wanted plays patal babu filmstar purba pashcim darjiparar marjinara swapno sandhani written bratya basu shonali sarak ganakrishti time limited year luck time 