Grohon

The play starts with a happy scene--the protagonist Purnendushekhar, an ex-politician, is celebrating his birthday with the family members. Later the whole family faces several types of crises. And in this tough time, the lack of respect for the members of the family is unveiled. Moloy Chowdhury is the director as well as the set designer of the play. Bijoy Chatterjee is the light designer.

Opinion

In our country, to organise a drama festival for an individual group is not an easy task, as theatre is not patronised by the government. When a group wishes to arrange a festival, the workers of that group have to start working at least three months before the inauguration of the festival and the group leaders start communicating with the counterparts. They have to knock the sponsors again and again to collect the financial support for the festival.

If any group from abroad is included in the festival, the host group has to work more, as the visitor group does not carry the set and light with them. In that case, the host has to give support to the advance team of the guest group. Moreover, the organisers have to maintain all types of formalities like issuing permission from the concerned government department and arranging the accommodation facilities for the visitor groups.

Even they do not get enough time for their own rehearsal. For example, in the current 10-day long drama festival arranged by Nagorik Natyangan, in which three Indian groups (Dandik led by Moloy Chatterjee, Bhobishwat led by Aashish Sarkar and Natyabhumi led by Shonjoy Kor) and six Bangladeshi groups are participating, the host group workers started their pre-festival exercise from the September last. They have already arranged all types of arrangement for the 97 members of Dandik, Bhobishwat and Natyabhumi.