Jagoroni Theatre to premiere “Rajar Chithi” today

Savar-based theatre group Jagoroni Theatre is set to premiere their 15th production, “Rajar Chithi”, at the Experimental Theatre Hall of Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy today. Mahfuza Hilali has written the play, and Debashish Ghosh has directed it.

Thespian Ramendu Mazumdar will inaugurate the play, where lawmaker of Dhaka-19 constituency Dr. Enamur Rahman will be chief guest.

The play revolves around Haridas Basak, an ardent fan of Rabindranath Tagore. In 1939 he writes a letter to Rabindranath, who replies to the letter and it changes his life. Haridas devotes himself to art and literature. In 1947 at the time of Partition, when many Hindu families leave for India, Haridas decides to stay at the address where Tagore wrote him to. Even further down the line at the Liberation War of 1971, his house is burned down and he comes back looking for that letter. The Pakistan Army confronts him as they hear Rabindranath's name.

Jagoroni Theatre has been working for 21 years in Savar against various obstacles, the biggest of them being the absence of a performance venue. They have so far held more than 200 stagings of 14 plays.