SYED BADRUDDIN HOSSAIN SMRITI NATYOTSAB
Published: 12:00 AM, 08 April 2016
Padatik’s five-day festival kicks off at Shilpakala
'Kaalratri' recounts the Bengali people's resistance in 1971
Like every year, Padatik Natya Sangsad, one of the leading theatre troupes in the country, has organized a five-day theatre festival at the Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy to mark the 93rd birth anniversary of eminent educationist, Language Movement veteran and lifetime chairman of Padatik Natya Sangsad, Syed Badruddin Hossain.
Titled 'Syed Badruddin Hossain Smriti Natyotsab and Smarok Sommanona', the festival will feature two plays each day at the National Theatre Hall and Experimental Theatre Hall of BSA simultaneously. The festival was inaugurated yesterday at 6pm.
Dr. Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury, Speaker of the Parliament, inaugurated the festival as chief guest, along with a host of prominent theatre personalities, including Professor Momtazuddin Ahmed, Cultural Affairs Minister Asaduzzaman Noor, Syed Shamsul Haq, Mamunur Rashid, Ramendu Majumdar, Ferdousi Majumdar, Aly Zaker, Shimul Yousuff, M. Hamid, Nasiruddin Yousuff, Ataur Rahman and Keramot Maola. BSA director general Liaquat Ali Lucky, thespian Akhtaruzzaman, and Ahmed Gias were present at the inauguration ceremony as special guests.
Under the slogan 'Natak Hok Jiban Juddheo Hatiar, Natak Hok Jibaner Prakashita Satya', a total number of 10 prominent theatre troupes from home and abroad are participating in this festival. The participating troupes are the host Padatik Natya Sangsad, Nagorik Natya Sampradaya, Mohakal Natya Sampraday, Natyakendra, Nagorik Natyangon, Prangonemore, Arshinagar, Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy, and Indian troupes Anik, and Kalyanani Natya Charcha Kendra.
A total of 10 popular play will be featured in this festival: 'Dewan Gazir Kissa', 'Goray Golod', 'Kaalratri', 'Neelakhyan', 'Mulluk', 'Shey Raate Purnima Chhilo', 'Gouhar Badshah O Banessa Pori', 'Bondukjuddho O Gadhar Haat', 'Punorjonom', and 'Ami O Rabindranath'.
Every year, prominent theatre personalities receive Badruddin Hossain Memorial Award for their outstanding contribution to the theatre scene of the country. This year theatre activist Dr Enamul Haq and actress Sara Zaker is going to receive this award.
Commemorating the martyrs who were killed on the horrific night of March 25, 1971 in a planned massacre carried out by the Pakistani Army, Padatik Natya Sangsad has arranged a special staging of the troupe's much acclaimed play on the Liberation War, Kaalratri, today, on the second day of the festival National Theatre Main Hall of Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy at 7:15pm in the evening.
The play has been adapted by Tanvir Ahmed Sidney, based on Lamisa Shirin Hossain's story Lone Survivor. Wahidul Islam directed the play, while Sanjib Kumar Dey and Atiqul Islam Joy designed the stage and lights respectively. The 38th production of the troupe, Kaalratri delves into the underbelly of the Liberation War showing how Pakistani forces clamped down on civilians during 1971. It begins with an inquisitive girl asking her grandfather, a teacher of Dhaka University in 1971, about the war. Her curiosity is further intensified after an encounter with a wounded man, who happens to be a former student of her grandfather and a freedom fighter - the "lone survivor" of the original story.
Both the grandfather and his student then recall their experiences of the war. A student of Jagannath Hall of Dhaka University, the unnamed freedom fighter recounts how students and the people were forced to take up arms after the massacre on the night of March 25.
A realistic set design coupled with vivid imagery, and an audio-visual in the background is designed to give the audience a glimpse of what really happened in 1971. The play casts the likes of Sakhawat Hossain Shimul, Sanjida Parveen, Mohammad Imran Khan, Ikramul Islam, Jinia Azad, Tasmi Chowdhury, Syeda Shamsi Ara Sayeka and Farhad Sumon among others.
Titled 'Syed Badruddin Hossain Smriti Natyotsab and Smarok Sommanona', the festival will feature two plays each day at the National Theatre Hall and Experimental Theatre Hall of BSA simultaneously. The festival was inaugurated yesterday at 6pm.
Dr. Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury, Speaker of the Parliament, inaugurated the festival as chief guest, along with a host of prominent theatre personalities, including Professor Momtazuddin Ahmed, Cultural Affairs Minister Asaduzzaman Noor, Syed Shamsul Haq, Mamunur Rashid, Ramendu Majumdar, Ferdousi Majumdar, Aly Zaker, Shimul Yousuff, M. Hamid, Nasiruddin Yousuff, Ataur Rahman and Keramot Maola. BSA director general Liaquat Ali Lucky, thespian Akhtaruzzaman, and Ahmed Gias were present at the inauguration ceremony as special guests.
Under the slogan 'Natak Hok Jiban Juddheo Hatiar, Natak Hok Jibaner Prakashita Satya', a total number of 10 prominent theatre troupes from home and abroad are participating in this festival. The participating troupes are the host Padatik Natya Sangsad, Nagorik Natya Sampradaya, Mohakal Natya Sampraday, Natyakendra, Nagorik Natyangon, Prangonemore, Arshinagar, Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy, and Indian troupes Anik, and Kalyanani Natya Charcha Kendra.
A total of 10 popular play will be featured in this festival: 'Dewan Gazir Kissa', 'Goray Golod', 'Kaalratri', 'Neelakhyan', 'Mulluk', 'Shey Raate Purnima Chhilo', 'Gouhar Badshah O Banessa Pori', 'Bondukjuddho O Gadhar Haat', 'Punorjonom', and 'Ami O Rabindranath'.
Every year, prominent theatre personalities receive Badruddin Hossain Memorial Award for their outstanding contribution to the theatre scene of the country. This year theatre activist Dr Enamul Haq and actress Sara Zaker is going to receive this award.
Commemorating the martyrs who were killed on the horrific night of March 25, 1971 in a planned massacre carried out by the Pakistani Army, Padatik Natya Sangsad has arranged a special staging of the troupe's much acclaimed play on the Liberation War, Kaalratri, today, on the second day of the festival National Theatre Main Hall of Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy at 7:15pm in the evening.
The play has been adapted by Tanvir Ahmed Sidney, based on Lamisa Shirin Hossain's story Lone Survivor. Wahidul Islam directed the play, while Sanjib Kumar Dey and Atiqul Islam Joy designed the stage and lights respectively. The 38th production of the troupe, Kaalratri delves into the underbelly of the Liberation War showing how Pakistani forces clamped down on civilians during 1971. It begins with an inquisitive girl asking her grandfather, a teacher of Dhaka University in 1971, about the war. Her curiosity is further intensified after an encounter with a wounded man, who happens to be a former student of her grandfather and a freedom fighter - the "lone survivor" of the original story.
Both the grandfather and his student then recall their experiences of the war. A student of Jagannath Hall of Dhaka University, the unnamed freedom fighter recounts how students and the people were forced to take up arms after the massacre on the night of March 25.
A realistic set design coupled with vivid imagery, and an audio-visual in the background is designed to give the audience a glimpse of what really happened in 1971. The play casts the likes of Sakhawat Hossain Shimul, Sanjida Parveen, Mohammad Imran Khan, Ikramul Islam, Jinia Azad, Tasmi Chowdhury, Syeda Shamsi Ara Sayeka and Farhad Sumon among others.
